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Program Manager Location: London Length: 9 Months Rate: £264 per day PAYE (Approx. £68.6K per annum) Hours: 9am-6pm This client is a top 5 tech giant with a global retail operation, video streaming platform, and has a big imprint in web services. This is a hybrid role, so you will split your time between home office and the clients offices in central London. On-site you will be able to access their amazing facilities and quirky working spaces. Job Description: This organisations Private Brands team is looking for an energetic leader with excellent bias for action, ability to invent and simplify, a strong backbone, and a passion for delivering solutions to improve our product development processes. Private Brands is a fast growing business within the business that offers the potential to work with a diverse team of professionals, and great opportunity for professional development. The Consumables Private Brands team is currently leading various strategic initiatives that will help the business grow in a scalable fashion, while launching hundreds of products that exceed our customers' expectations. This Program Manager will be primarily responsible for implementing a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system for Consumables Private Brands. This includes working with cross-functional partners and teams to identify and prioritize feature needs, aligning stakeholders around implementation plans, managing historic data migration, developing and managing detailed project plans, establishing metrics of success, and reporting on progress. This role will require exceptional change management acumen to ensure the success of processes/systems/automation tools implemented across the org. A successful candidate will have strong interpersonal skills, an ability to apply structure to chaos, and simplify complex problems. They will have a proven track record of getting their projects prioritized over competing initiatives while also being able to weigh strategic trade-offs. Basic qualifications 4 years in program or product management (software-related experience is a plus) Bachelor's degree. Advanced proficiency with Excel. Exceptional written and oral communication abilities. Strong stakeholder management skills. Experience implementing change management in organizations. Ability to manage multiple projects - work prioritization, planning and task delegation. Strong analytic skills with experience using qualitative and quantitative data to scope problems and measure outcomes. Preferred qualifications: Experience with product lifecycle management systems at a consumer goods company, or experience working closely with those functional areas. Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results on technical projects. Experience launching new software within organizations. Familiarity with scrum, agile and waterfall methodologies Competence with SQL (basic queries).
Remote Delivery Manager needed Paying £389.07 per day ref 1266110 Full time hours on a temporary basis To ensure the organisation has the required governance frameworks, adaptive cadence, and opportunity for knowledge share to existing employees for effective delivery of a critical multi-year programme of work. This role will also include working closely with and supporting the development of the Change Management capability. You can act as a recognised expert and advocate for delivery approaches, continuously reflecting and challenging the team. You can create or tailor new ways of working, and constantly innovate. Manage stakeholder expectations and moderate discussions about high risk and complexity, even within constrained timescales. You can speak on behalf of and represent the community to large audiences You can apply experience in multiple parts of the product life cycle. You can recognise when it is right to move forward and when it is right to stop. You can recognise the appropriate deliverables and the right people to meet them. You can work with other Agile delivery operations throughout the product life cycle. You can plan and engage with the appropriate stakeholders at a particular stage in the project You can actively address the most complicated risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team or no clear ownership exists. You can identify innovative ways to unblock issues. If you are interested in the role, please email your CV to quoting the reference number. Essential Employment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Essential Employment is an Equal Opportunities Employer. All our roles may be subject to pre-employment checks including references so please be prepared