Role Purpose

To manage the successful delivery of project initiatives, ensuring performance, stakeholder requirements, quality and budget constraints are adhered to.

Role Accountabilities

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Solution Delivery

• Lead, or contribute to the initial definition and impact assessment and estimation of project concepts and ideas.
• Ensure successful project delivery from initiation through to closure, to agreed FGH standards; guidelines; processes.

Business Analysis

• Working closely with a team of stakeholders, to facilitate business design activities including business requirements gathering and definition of As-Is and To-Be processes.

Relationship Management

• Manage project and service stakeholders, ensuring effective and timely communication, realistic expectations and displaying a positive ‘can do’ attitude.
• Manage third party suppliers ensuring a quality, value for money service and maintaining effective relationships.

Personal

• Maintain a good awareness of general Project Management trends & developments.
• Manage and motivate project teams ensuring effective performance management, training and coaching.
• Contribute to the overall management of the Transformation Function; in a collaborative manner, accepting additional responsibility for specific management activities or leading “ad hoc” management tasks.

Best Practice

• Proactive contribution to continuous improvement of both the IT Function and the organisation as a whole.
• Maintain consistent, accurate plans covering schedule, cost and resource, providing timely progress and performance reporting.
• Support the business in defining and maintaining best practise governance and project methodologies.
• Champion the use of both agile or waterfall.
• To be committed to good outcomes for customers at all times
• Ensure compliance with all applicable UK and local regulations, Company Policies and FCA Conduct Rules.
• Demonstrate behaviours in line with our Company values.
• To take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and other persons who may be affected by acts and omissions at work.

Person Specification

Role Related Skills, Specialist Knowledge and Experience

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Essential

• Basic user of Word, Excel, able to set up tables, spreadsheets, graphs etc
• Basic commercial understanding of business and retailing.
• Previous role held, work placement or part time role in a commercial or retail environment.

Communication & Leadership

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to engage effectively at all levels, both internally and with 3rd parties.
• Management of cross-functional, multi-disciplined personnel (matrix), displaying leadership, motivational and coaching skills.
• Flexible and proactive approach to change, encouraging innovation and presenting change positively.
• Strategic thinking skills, able to place Transformation activity in an organisational context.

Technical Knowledge

• Strong planning, analytical and reporting skills, able to assimilate complex information and present recommendations.
• Awareness of business analysis best practises.
• Confident and proficient in the application of structured project management methods, tools and techniques with a recognised PM qualification such as APMG Agile PM, APM Project Management, Prince 2.
• Practical experience across Project & Software Development Lifecycles (Agile/Hybrid/Waterfall) and associated tools; techniques; methods.
• Broad awareness of Project Management and general Information Technology capabilities concepts and trends.

Desirable

• Intermediate to Advanced Excel user. Basic competence in use of a database package such as Access or more advanced.
• Good understanding of retailing, markets, customer groups.
• 12 Months plus experience in a commercial environment.

Other Relevant Experience

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Essential

• Worked in a group or team to deliver a project.

Desirable

• Cross functional project experience.

Qualifications & Professional Development/Memberships

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Essential

• Maths and English grade C or above, or equivalent.

Desirable

• Degree in Maths or Business Management/Administration or Marketing with an analytical leaning.

Personal Attributes

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Essential

• Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines with high levels of accuracy 

Desirable

• Competitor knowledge and understanding in both retail and online 

Special Working Conditions

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Essential

• Able to commute to Bradford city centre, work additional hours to ensure projects completed on time.

Desirable

• Able to travel occasionally to suppliers in Bradford and throughout UK.

FGH Development

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FGH Way Level 3

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