Group IT Project Manager
Kepak Group, Ireland
Job Description
The Project Manager is responsible for overall planning, coordination, execution, delivery and completion of Group IT projects on time and within budget.
Geographic Scope: Based in Ireland covering all Kepak geographies.
Reporting into: Chief Information Officer
Key Role Responsibilities:
Project Initiation
- Work with Business team to document requirements, compile business case amp; budget and manage process through to approval
- Develop a detailed project plan defining project tasks and resource requirements
- Liaise with managers to ensure resources are available to support the timelines within the project schedule
- To ensure core project management processes are in place: Risk, Issue, Change, Decision Logs
- Assess impact to scope, schedule and cost and communicate with key stakeholders
Project Management amp; Execution
- Lead project implementing a wide range of functionality in multiple phases across Group and manufacturing sites in Ireland and UK
- Manage amp; own the project through the Initiation, design, build, test, release amp; support phases
- Manage Third party partners in overall delivery, ensuring delivery on-time, within scope and within budget
- To ensure core project management processes are in place: Risk, Issue, Change, Decision
Project monitoring amp; reporting
- Monitor and report on project status to all stakeholders and Steering Committee reporting. Escalate issues as required
- To ensure quality of project documentation, deliverables and outcomes is managed and assured.
- To support and guide the project sponsor in management of the various stakeholders.
Requirements
Required:
• 3-5+ years’ experience in Project Management
• Proven ability to lead a project from initiation to successful completion
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with Senior Management
• An understanding of all processes involved and have the ability to confidently challenge others at a level of informed understanding
• Good interpersonal skills to work in interdisciplinary teams
• Self-starter with flexible approach, capable of handling multiple projects in a fast paced environment
Desirable:
• Project management certification PMP, PRINCE2
• Management of 3rd Party Implementation Partners / Contracts.
• Experience in the Food Manufacturing Industry
• Decision Rights:
• Project related scope, risk, issue, change (cost/expenditure to budget)
• Project Team and 3rd party resource management
• Escalation to Steering Committee
Advice and guidance to steering Committee based on experience
Proposed Metrics and Accountabilities:
• Deliver scope within schedule and agreed budget
• Management of 3rd parties
• Delivery of agreed KPIs and Milestones
• Escalation in a timely manner
Benefits
At Kepak we are looking for people who are as passionate about food as we are. If you would like to join a culture where our values of Ambition, Responsibility, Teamwork and Passion for Food are at the heart of all we do, and diversity and inclusion matters to you then you are what we are looking for.
Kepak is an Equal Opportunities Employer
Note: as with all positions, due to the nature of the business, key responsibilities will evolve and change over time
- Contributory Pension Scheme
- Access to discounted health care
- Employee Discount Platform
- Bike to Work Scheme
- Paid Maternity Leave
- Additional Service Leave
- Discounted Meat Purchases
- Career Development opportunities
- Education Support
- Study Leave #jobsie