About Us
Our teams are putting the world’s retailers online using the cloud, robotics, AI, and IoT. We provide services to partner clients globally via our innovative advanced robotics technology, known as the Ocado Smart Platform (“OSP”), this drives our highly automated, multi-million pound Customer Fulfilment Centres (CFCs). In our CFCs – together with the proprietary software applications – we operate a world-class online grocery business that automates the single pick of products, ready for your online delivery.
About the role
The Project Manager Business Change position sits in the Change Programme function of our Project Office and provides active and dedicated project management leadership to all internal change projects. This position acts as a subject matter expert, partnering with the Programme Manager and other Project Managers in the team to ensure change is adopted and sustained.
This role represents a huge opportunity to contribute to Ocado’s success and to help shape broader changes as we progress through our change programme. It is accountable for developing a project management framework and actionable project management plans across our internal projects; developing project schedules, developing risk/issue logs, project organisation breakdown structures, work packages and work breakdown structures, stakeholder mapping and project monitoring and tracking across our programme of work, ensuring that all information related to the project is consistent, accurate and timely.
As Project Manager you will be responsible for;
- Translating strategic Change Programme needs into actionable change projects for delivery across Platform Implementation
- Developing and maintaining best in class project documentation
- Managing and influencing a large number of senior internal and external stakeholders towards a common vision or goal
- Managing and reporting risks, issues and change in a timely manner, creating mitigation plans and taking action to reduce risk or take advantage of the opportunity
- Managing project scope, quality, schedule, costs and resources ensuring the project meets or exceeds business objectives
- Problem-solving, proactively identifying and mitigating potential issues
- Reporting project status with transparency
- Adhering to Change Programme and PMO project governance principles
About you
You will need experience in…
- Extensive project management across a range of high profile, strategic projects and programmes
- Hands-on end-to-end project lifecycle experience with experience in creation, monitoring and updating all project artefacts
- Process improvement, seeking ways to improve templates and tools to ensure they remain relevant, effective and efficient to meet changing business standards and objectives
- Change management such as communication, training, deployment and support engagements
- Crafting and delivering engaging and effective communications and presentations to leadership
- Excellent organisation skills including planning and prioritising workload, attention to detail, and results focus, ensuring all given deadlines are met
- Creating and using project management tools such as MS Project, Google Suite, Microsoft Products, operational impact plans, test plans, risk management plans, communication plans, deployment plans, and any other related project or change management best practises
What do you get in return
Hybrid working and flexible working patterns; Private healthcare; Car salary sacrifice and Cycle to Work schemes; A range of amazing benefits, including Free Shares and Life Assurance; 15% off your Ocado.com shopping; Company shop offering discounts of up to 70% on groceries from leading brands and major retailers; Exclusive travel, retail and leisure discounts nationwide; Incredible Head Office, complete with onsite cafe and restaurant just 20 minutes by train from Kings Cross; A free shuttle bus from and to Hatfield Station; 22 weeks paid maternity leave and 6 weeks paid paternity leave (once relevant service requirements complete); Enhanced Pension scheme, matching employee contributions up to 7% of salary; Employee Assistance Programme.
We’re in it together, we are proud of what we do, we can be even better.
We welcome applicants from across the world. If your employment is subject to sponsorship under the UK points-based immigration system, Ocado Group will only pay for the cost of a Certificate of Sponsorship for you, including the Immigration Skills Charge (ISC) if applicable. You will be responsible for the cost of your own visa application and the Immigration Healthcare Surcharge (IHS).
Ocado Group is an equal opportunities employer and as such makes every effort to ensure that all potential employees are treated fairly and equally, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age, disability or union membership status.
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About Ocado Group
When our journey started, we were all about changing the way people shop for groceries. 20 years later, we’re developing our own ground breaking technology, opening multiple sites at an accelerating rate and engaging in exciting new business partnerships around the world!
Transforming an industry also means transforming the way we do business. As we continually develop new technologies and customer propositions, we’re looking for the Everyday Pioneers to lead us into the next stage of our evolution: enhancing our capabilities, inspiring our teams and developing new ways of working.
Changing the way the world shops, for good.
