Senior Project Manager

Role overview:

Senior Project Manager
Waterloo - Hybrid Working
Full Time
Fixed Term Contract - 12 Months
Grade 4

At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

This role will sit within our Strategic Change team who are in the driving seat for leading strategic, operational and organisational projects to support our Transformation agenda. The Senior Project Manager will lead our new Sustainability Project, working with stakeholders from across the Business to deliver the desired change.

Role overview:

• Lead the delivery of a complex and highly strategic project
• Work closely with Business Leads from Sustainability and other Business functions
• Establish and sustain an effective governance framework to ensure the appropriate level of oversight and control is in place across the project
• Take ownership for key deliverables across the delivery lifecycle and apply appropriate methodologies to support the achievement of the project objectives:
  • Own and maintain the comprehensive delivery plan, risk & issue logs
  • Manage and communicate interdependencies clearly
  • Own and maintain the project budget and forecast
  • Update and maintain the governance and portfolio level reporting
  • Own resource forecasts and manage schedule and resource dependencies
• Require someone that is highly organised and able to balance and prioritise multiple demands
• Require strong core project management skills and be comfortable leading and driving a plan and managing teams up to senior leaders

Required Skills & Experience:

• Experience of delivery in large complex organisations, such as FTSE250 companies, or have experience of delivering the requirements of this role across multiple clients at a top tier professional services (consulting) firm
• Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment
• Sustainability and/or Compliance experience preferred

Expert

• Organisation and time management
• Governance set up and management
• Stakeholder Management
• Risk & Issue Management
• Portfolio Management
• Management of 3rd Parties
• Financial and Benefits Management
• Highly Resilient
• Ability to work with ambiguity and uncertainty
• Ability to resolve conflicts across key stakeholder groups

Advanced

• Understanding of Project Management methodologies and experience working on strategic and organisational programmes
• Meeting Facilitation skills
• Change Management

Why join us:

Join our team and we'll be with you every step of the way, helping you develop the career you want with new opportunities, on-going training and skills for life.

Not only can you shape your own future, but you can help take charge of ours too. As the biggest recycler and repairer of tech in the UK, we’re in a position to make a real impact on people and the planet.

Every voice has a space at our table and we're committed to making inclusion and diversity part of everything we do, including how we strengthen our workforce. We want to make sure you have a fair opportunity to show us your talents during our application process, so if you need any additional assistance with your application please email [email protected] and we'll do our best to help.