About the role
Lead the planning, governance and delivery of large and complex projects across multiple areas or products from the East Singapore (Changi) location. Ensure project goals are achieved within agreed timelines, scope, budget and resource requirements while driving benefit realisation, continuous improvement and adherence to project management standards.
Key responsibilities
- Manage overall project planning, control, status reporting, stability and delivery.
- Drive the resolution of project conflicts and issues.
- Own project budgets and monitor performance against business cases to ensure benefit realisation.
- Build strong working relationships and maintain effective communication with all stakeholders.
- Obtain stakeholder feedback at critical milestones to ensure project outcomes meet customer expectations.
- Manage project and commercial risks, mitigation plans and proactive risk communication.
- Govern the project management methodology and risk management process.
- Champion the deployment of project management and risk management standards, policies, training and development across project delivery.
- Conduct status checks and quality management reviews, identify risks and recommend improvements that support successful project delivery.
- Deliver high-quality project documentation, keep it up to date and maintain it in the project database.
- Review project portfolio performance against business cases and implement action plans to support benefit realisation.
- Apply lessons learned and stakeholder feedback to drive continuous improvement.
- Promote changes that improve project management practices in alignment with international trends.
- Work with project sponsors and stakeholders to forecast project resources required to support the project pipeline and deliver project objectives.
- Support the development of the project management community and implement people management initiatives, including skills assessment, training programmes, processes and toolsets.
What we're looking for
- At least 5 years of experience in project and programme management roles.
- Experience in logistics operations is desirable.
- Knowledge of project management methodology is essential.
- Experience with process improvement methodology, such as DMAIC, is desirable.
- Ability to lead and manage functional and cross-functional teams in a multicultural environment.
- Customer-focused mindset with a strong understanding of customer experience.
- Highly adaptable and agile in a dynamic environment.
- Self-starter who can work independently with minimal supervision and is keen to learn.
- Goal-driven, detail-oriented and organised, with strong business and process awareness.
- Excellent presentation skills and the ability to lead and manage meetings.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Good command of written and spoken English and Chinese, with proficiency in Mandarin for communication with Chinese customers and counterparts.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint, with Chinese word-processing capability.
- A university degree is desirable.