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Project Manager - Birmingham

Employer
Compass Group UK
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
11 Apr 2023
Project Manager - Birmingham

What we'll give:

We ensure you're rewarded for all your hard work, which is why we offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

  • Contributory pension scheme
  • Grow your career with our Career Pathways and MyLearning programmes
  • Exclusive travel discounts with TUI, Expedia, Booking.com and many more
  • Save money on your food shop with discounts on Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and many more
  • Up to 44% off cinema tickets to enjoy your favourite blockbuster
  • Receive Wow Points every time you spend and use them on a wide range of brands
  • Un-wind with us with free wellness, mindfulness and exercise classes
  • You can share all discounts and offers with your friends and families
More about the role:
  • To project manage projects across all phases of the project - Scoping, Discovery, Design, Build & Test, Visualisation, Deployment, using the PMO tool of Wrike, & Tasks on Azure DevOps
  • To be able to adjust to agile working, to ensure the business are getting continual drops of data within the AWS environment, & value is delivered on an ongoing support which will require robust project management for all stakeholders to be available at the right times whilst they are still maintaining their regular day to day operational or financial roles
  • To work with the E15 team consisting of Programme Manager, Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Data Architect & Data Engineers to develop a robust project plan & manage their time of when this is required to be able to deliver activity required, escalating any resource clashes with the Programme Manager to be able to help resolve
  • To work alongside the business to ensure clear communication between stakeholders & the team of which is required, what is to be delivered & the sign off process that this needs to be undertaken under with regular reporting to the Project business SteerCo & to the D&T Exec
  • To report into the E15 Programme Manager ensuring the project phases are managed in line with the ways of working, resourcing is planned internally & external resources & lessons learnt are factored into any planning & delivery
  • To ensure the project can be sized, costs analysis complete to allow a budget to be created for fund requests for Scoping & Discover, & then for the remaining phases of the project, so a two phased finance investment submission with timelines included, & to then manage the budget on an ongoing basis, identifying any risks in a timely manner
  • To maintain key project artefacts in the programme standards, such as the RAID log, Finance tracker, Status reports, Steerco packs, wrike reporting & azure dev ops reporting
  • Ensure Risks & Issues are highlighted to Programme Manager in timely manner & resolutions to resolve are worked through with support required to not negatively impact costs & timelines
  • Engage with third party data source suppliers to ensure there is a good understanding of the data available, that it is available for all Compass sites, & is able to be ingested in the format that is agreed at all times, obtain client consents where required & other pre-requisites before engaging with third party developing partners
  • Engage with third party delivery partners, ensuring with Programme Manager that the correct contracts, Statement of Works are in place, ensuring they have the correct access level & managing their time to ensure fully efficient use of resource with the assistance of the E15 team where appropriate in the different phases, & escalating any resource clashes of underperformance of delivery with the Programme Manager as quickly as possible to help support & resolve where required
  • Engage with the Analytics teams in Finance, to ensure that the delivery of the datasets is agreed with them, & the Visualisation phase that they will undertake at the end of the project is well planned, & they will be delivered what is required to support the business & ensure training completed with the business in the data & Quicksight the reporting tool
  • Assist with Tactical short-term Requirements if & where required by Programme Manager & Board
  • To work on new project workstreams as requested
  • Assist with task as requested where required by Programme Manager & Board for ongoing delivery of E15
Who you are:
  • Worked as a Project Manager on large Projects/Programmes & delivered successfully
  • Attention to detail is a key skill to ensure no ambiguity on requirements capture
  • Experience on Data & Insights Projects is ideal, & experience of AWS environments & reporting tool QS preferred but not required
  • Ability to be comfortable on being flexible on role within the Programme given the E15 Programme is developing & growing
  • Ability to use Excel, Word & Powerpoint
  • Excellent team player
  • Experience in Azure DevOps preferred but not required if similar experience in other project tools where knowledge transfer can be used
  • Ability to communicate with all levels of the business including Exec Board Level
  • Ability to follow PMO & Programme Governance
What you'll be doing:

Compass Group Plc (Compass) is a 20 billion turnover, global organisation and the world's leading provider of food and support services. With operations across seven key business areas (Foodservice; Support Services; Business & Industry; Healthcare & Seniors; Education; Sports & Leisure; and Defence, Offshore & Remote), Compass serves customers in offices and factories; schools and universities; hospitals and senior living communities; major sports and cultural venues; and remote mining camps and offshore platforms.

The E15 Programme is delivering the functionality to the business in an AWS environment for it to be able to become an Insight Driven Organisation.

The Programme identifies the business's detailed requirements & therefore the further data sources to be integrated, built & tested, & develop the technology & architecture required to enable data capture, management, governance, standardisation that is future proofed for growth of data & number of users, & all whilst ensuring the non-functional requirements are in place for the ongoing delivery of this solution.

This Project Manager role will play a key part in this Programme kick off, by leading on workstreams that can be scoped, planned, costed & initiated, following Compass D&T Governance.

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