Senior Project Manager


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Recruiter

Sainsburys

Listed on

17th June 2016

Location

Coventry

Salary/Rate

£excellent + benefits

Salary Notes

£excellent + benefits

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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One of the UK’s biggest and best-loved companies, Sainsbury’s serves millions of daily customers across 1,200 supermarkets and convenience stores - and, more than ever before, online. Now, we’re looking for an exceptional IT professional to manage the end-to-end delivery of an exciting range of application and infrastructure projects. It’s a business-critical role where time and cost targets are paramount.

As a Senior Project Manager, you’ll

- Ensure best value is obtained across all projects - including supplier base and all internal and external resources

- Manage day-to-day relationships with all third parties including the creation of work orders and contracts with support from Procurement

- Develop and maintain effective relationships with colleagues to deliver the optimal solution; escalating to the Project Sponsor where necessary to ensure time, cost and quality objectives are met

- Define and deliver on quality assurance standards

- Act and be recognised as project leader within IT

- Contribute back to the collective knowledge base so future projects can benefit

- Manage and accurately forecast project finance to deliver projects within agreed budgets

- Accurately plan projects to achieve agreed delivery timescales

You’ll need

- A proven record of success within IT Project Management, utilising assorted methodologies

- Exceptional time management and organisational skills

- Good communication and influencing skills

- Financial acumen

- Excellent planning capability

- Ability to prioritise and make critical decisions

- Sound grasp of quality management tools and techniques

- Instant professional gravitas

- Proven delivery capability

- Experience of managing projects over £1m

This varied and challenging role offers a major opportunity to contribute to the ongoing evolution of Digital & Technology at Sainsbury’s - as well as plenty of scope for your own professional development.

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