Our client is looking for a Project Manager
Role description
- Shape, challenge and support the execution of the long-term digitalisation and automation roadmap, ensuring alignment with operational and strategic priorities.
- Bring structure and senior oversight to the project portfolio, strengthening governance, prioritisation and the consolidated view of progress, risks, dependencies and key decisions.
- Act as a sparring partner to project leads and younger team members, coaching them in structuring projects, solving complex problems, preparing recommendations and effectively engaging stakeholders.
- Support and challenge strategic digital and automation projects from concept and business case through key decision gates, implementation and delivery.
- Structure and review business cases, project dossiers, steering committee materials, management presentations and stage gate reviews, ensuring management discussions are focused on the relevant facts, trade-offs and decisions.
- Translate complex operational, technological and organisational topics into structured analyses, clear recommendations and actionable roadmaps for senior management.
- Manage and facilitate alignment across senior stakeholders from Operations, IT and other relevant functions, proactively identifying areas of disagreement, dependencies and decisions required.
- Prepare and facilitate key governance and decision-making forums, ensuring effective follow-up of decisions and actions.
- Identify and assess opportunities to improve operational performance through technologies such as Warehouse Control Systems (WCS), AI-powered data capture, operational data platforms and future operational digital solutions and integrations.
- Support multidisciplinary teams in defining solutions and ensuring effective integration between operational technologies and other IT systems.
- Provide senior guidance on RFI, RFP and RFQ processes, vendor evaluations, technology choices and investment decisions.
- Challenge project plans, business cases, KPIs, risks and delivery approaches, helping teams anticipate issues and remove roadblocks before they impact delivery.
- Strengthen project management capabilities and ways of working across the team by introducing fit-for-purpose methodologies, templates, governance practices and decision-making frameworks.
- Coach and develop team members through hands-on support, regular feedback and knowledge sharing, progressively increasing their autonomy and ability to manage complex projects and stakeholders.
- Promote innovation and continuous improvement by bringing an external perspective and challenging existing approaches, with particular attention to emerging technologies such as Digital Twins, advanced automation, AI and robotics.
