Department Head - Project Management & Implementation

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Job Title: Department Head - Project Management and Implementation (sKale 60)

Location: Westgate, London

Reports to: Business Unit Director

Line Management for: Project Managers

Lead a small team of Project Managers to deliver globally relevant Product, Solution, Process and System projects. Evolve the way we manage projects, programmes and evaluate success.

Kantar Worldpanel is the world’s leading provider of impactful insights and research solutions from consumer panels. Our business is consumers and shoppers and we provide unrivalled strategic and tactical advice to clients such as Unilever, P&G, top retailers and hundreds of household consumer brands, based on our insight and advanced analysis of purchase and usage behaviour.

We drive client growth from an exceptional operational base, leading the industry in and continuously evolving our panel data collection and management approaches, maintaining the absolute quality that our clients rely upon.

Our Head of Project Management and Implementation will be responsible for setting the overall direction, priorities and development of this small but business critical department, then leading to ensure an effectively resourced, talented team that is fully engaged and aligned with our Operations Vision and Identity.

Leading the team to deliver the full lifecycle of business change and projects into production, we’ll expect to see success from the development of great relationships, backed up by effective & consistent project delivery and review that sees stakeholders across the business engaged with and championing the way projects are managed.

We would like to hear from candidates who can demonstrate:

- Experience of leading or managing & developing a team and it’s operating protocols to establish and deliver against an appropriate project method within an organisation where project management is in its infancy

- Evidence of knowledge and experience of working with PRINCE2, PMP, Agile and other major project management methodologies

- Qualification held in a major project management method (as above)

- Able to demonstrate significant and positive business outcomes from projects delivered in previous roles

- Ability to engage, develop and collaborate with team members and wider business, especially at a board level with experience of challenging the status quo

- Able to deliver to the bigger picture at the same time as attending to detail

- Demonstrable drive and ability to see things through to successful completion

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No recruitment agencies please.

Keywords: Project manager, Team lead, Program management, Process optimization.