IT Project Portfolio Manager
- Manchester, Lancashire
- £55,000 per annum
- 9 applications
- Job type: Permanent, full-time
- Date:
- Reference: 23002100
IT Project Portfolio Manager – Food IT
Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 + Car Allowance
Location: Manchester
Are you an IT Project Portfolio Manager from the retail sector, with significant experience managing a complex portfolio of IT change projects? Then why not develop your career in an ethical organisation that is growing and growing!
· Lead a team of Project Managers in the successful delivery of the Co-operative Food IT project portfolio
· Proactively plan and optimise resource in line with business change priorities so that a realistic delivery programme is established and maintained
· Act as an IT Business partner to key change teams within the Food business
· Support the Head of IT Development in the creation of technology and solution three-year plans for all areas of the food business
As IT Project Portfolio Manager, you will be accountable for successfully managing a portfolio of IT change projects within Food IT, ensuring priorities, interdependencies and resources are managed effectively. You will participate as a member of the Food IT and Group IT leadership teams ensuring future processes and solutions are consistent with the Food business and Group IT strategic plans. Reporting to the Head of IT Development, you will lead a team of IT project managers monitoring progress through regular reviews and maintaining close contact with all stakeholders. Working within a plan, build, run framework your previous experience in a similar role is essential as you will apply best practice pragmatically and create systems fit for purpose. To do this successfully, you will need:
· Significant experience managing a complex portfolio of IT change projects in a FMCG environment (experience from food retail is desirable)
· Proven experience of complex stakeholder management, managing lots of stakeholders with different views
· Methodical detailed approach to work context
· Ability to manage significant risks and issues
· Strong analytical skills to identify how one issue can impact on another and put in place the required interventions through support or from own knowledge base
· Excellent communication skills
· Proven supplier management experience
· Commercially astute thinking
· Formal Project Management Qualification is desirable
If you are an experienced IT Project Portfolio Manager from the FMCG sector, and you’re keen to join our rapidly expanding ethical family of businesses, we can offer you great benefits and development opportunities. Have you got the desire to see the business flourish? Then why not develop your career in the best place, for the best people to be their best!
Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 + Car Allowance
Location: Manchester
Are you an IT Project Portfolio Manager from the retail sector, with significant experience managing a complex portfolio of IT change projects? Then why not develop your career in an ethical organisation that is growing and growing!
· Lead a team of Project Managers in the successful delivery of the Co-operative Food IT project portfolio
· Proactively plan and optimise resource in line with business change priorities so that a realistic delivery programme is established and maintained
· Act as an IT Business partner to key change teams within the Food business
· Support the Head of IT Development in the creation of technology and solution three-year plans for all areas of the food business
As IT Project Portfolio Manager, you will be accountable for successfully managing a portfolio of IT change projects within Food IT, ensuring priorities, interdependencies and resources are managed effectively. You will participate as a member of the Food IT and Group IT leadership teams ensuring future processes and solutions are consistent with the Food business and Group IT strategic plans. Reporting to the Head of IT Development, you will lead a team of IT project managers monitoring progress through regular reviews and maintaining close contact with all stakeholders. Working within a plan, build, run framework your previous experience in a similar role is essential as you will apply best practice pragmatically and create systems fit for purpose. To do this successfully, you will need:
· Significant experience managing a complex portfolio of IT change projects in a FMCG environment (experience from food retail is desirable)
· Proven experience of complex stakeholder management, managing lots of stakeholders with different views
· Methodical detailed approach to work context
· Ability to manage significant risks and issues
· Strong analytical skills to identify how one issue can impact on another and put in place the required interventions through support or from own knowledge base
· Excellent communication skills
· Proven supplier management experience
· Commercially astute thinking
· Formal Project Management Qualification is desirable
If you are an experienced IT Project Portfolio Manager from the FMCG sector, and you’re keen to join our rapidly expanding ethical family of businesses, we can offer you great benefits and development opportunities. Have you got the desire to see the business flourish? Then why not develop your career in the best place, for the best people to be their best!
