Location: Notts
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
Salary: £negotiable (plus benefits)
Posted: 28th November 2016
Industry: Project Management, Startup
A sweet sweet Project Management opportunity if ever there was one! My client is an exciting high growth e/m-commerce start-up that can personalise cakes of all shapes and sizes with HD photo quality edible icing! You can have your face on a cake and eat it! This exciting business now has the infrastructure and demand in place to deliver high volumes of their offering all over the UK and Europe. With a brand new website and gifts platform about to come online Q1 2017 the time is right to bolster the project management team with a key hire to help the business grow on many multiple fronts whilst maintaining their high quality output. This is an incredible opportunity to join a highly innovative and successful startup that has the strategy and ambition to go all the way!
Responsibilities
Leading and delivering business projects, involving multiple work streams and in line with quality, time and cost tolerances
Using the appropriate techniques and industry recognised methodology to manage projects through their full lifecycle to a successful closure
Establishing successful delivery of projects including project plans, communication strategies, highlight and project closure reports
Chairing internal and external meetings, workshops & presentations, maintaining records of meetings and using actions to drive progress forward
Pro-active risk, assumption, issue and dependency management
Forecasting, recording and managing projects
Being aware of and working to the required legal and security compliance standards and corporate disciplines
Providing leadership to project resource
Providing support to end users so that the success of a project can be effectively measured after its implementation into live operation
Building and maintaining good working relationships with other managers, delivery teams
Working by and promoting bakerdays standards and vision
Essential Experience/Skills
Experience managing business projects involving multiple work streams
Competent using MS Outlook, Word, Excel & PowerPoint
Competent using MS Visio and MS Project
Excellent numeric skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
PRINCE2 Practitioner
Desirable Experience/Skills
Programme management experience
Line management experience
Other Skills and Experience
Able to establish, lead and manage cross functional and multi-disciplined teams
Able to manage your own time, prioritising tasks in the face of changing and conflicting demands
Able to build and maintain effective and productive relationships both internally and externally
Excellent organisation skills
Attention to detail with a thorough approach and a desire to provide a quality service to our customers
Able to influence internal and external stakeholders at all levels
Commercially aware
A team player
Confident and self-motivated
Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
Good analytical skills with a pro-active approach to problem resolution and decision making
Embraces change and seeks continuous improvement
Able to work flexible hours if required
Well presented with a professional approach