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Project Manager

Employer
Nomad Foods
Location
Bedfont, Feltham
Salary
Competitive + benefits
Closing date
1 Sep 2019

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Other Job Function
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Nomad Foods has a Central commercial team (multifunctional, including Insights, R&D, Marketing, PMO, Supply Chain and Finance) working in close collaboration with marketing colleagues based in 13 European Marketing Unit (MU) locations servicing all markets in which Nomad Foods operates. Products are branded under our iconic brands as Birds Eye, Iglo, Findus, La Cocinera, Goodfellas and Aunt Bessie’s.

The Project Management Office supplies project management expertise for delivery of the key commercial projects focusing on our big ‘must win battle’ initiatives.

This Project Manager is responsible for providing professional project management for complex cross functional commercial projects with a focus on delivery quality and speed. Their focus is to ensure that projects meet their objectives, and they do so by providing management coordination of the available business resources to ensure deliverables are on time and in budget.

Specific project roles may require some additional responsibilities.

Project Planning

  • Understands and uses a variety of planning and project management tools
  • Through questioning / challenging with project team is able to create an effective project plan, identify and manage dependencies
  • Drives & holds the project team to deliver against the plan

Issue & Risk Management

  • Effectively communicates and escalates risks & issues to relevant stakeholders and is able to lead & drive to solutions                                                                                   
  • Is able to lead the project team to identify risks & issues and develop risk management strategies and alternative solutions

Scoping & project briefing

  • Is able to lead a team to define a clear project brief & scope
  • Understands impact of scope changes on project and other activities in business knows how & when scope change needs to be escalated/ challenged and is able to work with partners to resolve

Governance, Process Definition, Reporting &Tracking

  • Awareness and engagement with Nomad Project Management process and governance and ensures project being managed adhere to these processes
  • Effectively communicates all key project information (ie. risks, actions, current status, issues) and ensures it is understood by all relevant stakeholders (project team, wider business functions effected, senior stakeholders)

Change Management

  • Understand the principles of change management and the follow best practice approach to executing change well within the Nomad Methodology
  • Understand the barriers to change and manage barriers to and resistance to change effectively by communicating the plan (and the benefits) to the team and to the broader stakeholder community                          

Project Process, Systems and Tools

  • Ability to understand and follow project methodology and governance processes as established in the business, observing mandates and control steps as necessary guarantees of project quality
  • Use of the Nomad PPM toolset to manage projects

Resource Management

  • Manages project requirements - specifies resources required against the project plan and agrees them with the project Sponsor
  • Reacts to changes in Resource requirements

Team Management

  • Understands the importance of building a strong team        
  • Can plan and hold structured & well conducted meetings                                                                                    
  • Tracks team delivery and is able to hold team to account

Stakeholder Management

  • Identify stakeholder map for each project and assess influence and interest                                                    
  • Use a communication plan to engage stakeholders - listen and communicate details of the project and it's progress
  • Manage escalations of stakeholders

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