Friday , March 29 2024

Argos Job Application – Project Manager

Website Argos

Job Description:

At Sainsbury’s Bank, we’re reimagining our Change and Technology teams. Our mission is to a build a change capability that allows our Sainsbury’s Bank and Argos Financial Services brands to deliver in their objective to be an agile, capital and cost-efficient provider of simple, mobile-led financial services for loyal Sainsbury’s and Argos shoppers. We want to create an environment where change and technology professionals can flourish and grow, with real opportunities for development and progression.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Ultimately, managing the successful transition of change into BAU (both across the business and within our technical landscape) ensuring the risk profile is understood and agreed by the business.
  • You will be responsible for the management of project costs and benefits ensuring risks and opportunities are reflected in project forecasts
  • You will manage the risk profile of the project utilising established risk, issue, assumption and dependency management techniques
  • You will need to produce high quality project status reporting that provides a balanced and realistic view of project status in line with the reporting requirements of the SBAFS Investment Board
  • You will manage supplier delivery plans engaged in the project delivery and maintain strong relationships with external suppliers
  • You will take ownership and accountability of delivering change projects, which could be a single large project or multiple smaller projects through the end-to-end project delivery lifecycle
  • You will lead high performing, cross-functional, multi skilled change delivery teams to successfully deliver customer value. We’d like you to ensure the SBAFS governance framework and project structure is fully embedded throughout the lifecycle of a project from Ideation through to Closure
  • You will define project plans, managing performance to the plan and taking remedial action when required
  • We want you to define and manage project resource requirements, working collaboratively with the portfolio lead and functional leads to agree efficient resourcing

Job Requirements:

  • Drive and self-motivation, ability to work at pace whilst bringing others on the journey
  • Engages and manages stakeholders effectively, resolving issues and understanding drivers/needs
  • Able to constructively challenge and hold others to account, whilst maintaining positive relationships
  • You will have experience working with third party suppliers in a primarily outsourced environment
  • Experience within financial services strongly advantageous
  • You will be able to engage and manage stakeholders, resolving issues and understanding drivers/needs
  • Significant experience in managing software development and infrastructure projects (traditional and agile) and building software and services that create value for customers
  • You will be an experienced Project Manager with proven experience leading the end-to-end delivery of change projects, combining both IT and business change components
  • You must be able to converse with, challenge, influence and negotiate with technical resources
  • You will have experience at managing technical teams from a delivery perspective
  • We want you to be an open and honest communicator, promoting integrity and willing to both voice and welcome views that challenge the majority view appropriately.

Job Details:

Company: Argos

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Application Deadline: N/A

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