Digital Project Manager (contract)

DIGITAL PROJECT MANAGER (Contract):

Salt have partnered with an international tobacco company who have a focus on going smoke free are looking for a Digital Project Manager who will be responsible for the successful planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of a project. They will manage highly complex and strategic projects ensuring those are completed in a timely fashion, within the defined scope and within budget.

PROJECT PLANNING AND SCOPE DEFINITION

• Understand business environment, business needs and customer brief, participate and contribute in defining business justification, benefit – risk analysis, budget and resource requirements

COST & RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

• Define heavy weight core team together with Entrepreneur, facilitate allocation and resource management for assigned projects based on historical information, general understanding of project tasks; anticipate and mobilize cross functional resources when required.

• Manage multicultural and cross-functional project teams without direct line of supervision, as well as internal and external resources for the activities of each project. Train, direct and coach stream leads in order to share the experience and develop the team.

• Co-Lead OB/LRP preparation with project entrepreneur, meet financial objectives by forecasting requirements, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions.

PROJECT EXECUTION

• Drive end-to-end project management and execution, ensuring effective project delivery in line with company requirements and regulatory standards. Ensure robust and transparent development process adhering to BLAST stage gate deliverables and best practices.

• Ensure SNOW becomes a business management tool through proactive and timely project updates.

• Drive delivery to time and quality in line with global practices, tools, and innovation framework.

• Own the risk assessment, evaluate impact to the project and lead the prioritization. Identify the resolution and contingency measures.

• Drive the resolution of complex project related issues by analyzing, identifying, facilitating recommendations to achieve optimal solutions.

CONTROL AND VALIDATION

• Conduct regular progress reviews within respective counterparts ensuring timely and data driven decision making, effective resource allocation, cost management and adherence to estimated benefits.
• Serve as trusted advisor for project stakeholders and senior management on project management issues, provide accurate and realistic project status reports and other project information on a regular basis. Ensure timely and adequate communication to enable organizational focus and effectiveness.

• Active participant in key project governance forums (e.g.: Marketing Council) along with the Entrepreneur.

CLOSE OUT AND EVALUATION

• Identify improvement opportunities enhancing efficiency, planning time, workload, etc. and lead best-practice and sharing between PMO functions.

£400 outside IR35

6 months initial