IT Project Manager

At Britvic we’re on a journey to become the most dynamic soft drinks company. As one of the UK’s leading players in the FMCG market we pride ourselves on setting high standards, being courageous and pushing ourselves to think outside the bottle.  

We offer consumers a range of family favourite and global premium brands such as Robinsons, Tango, J2O, R. White’s & London Essence. We exist to help people enjoy life’s everyday moments.

About the Role:

The purpose of the role is to work as part of the IT Delivery function, working on the delivery of technical solutions in alignment with the IT roadmap and IT Architecture Principles.

The role holder will work with key stakeholders, third parties and technical teams through the project delivery process to ensure technical solutions are delivered that meet requirements and are embedded into the Finance function as usual operation.

The role will be part of the IT Delivery department.

We are looking for someone with language skills in Portuguese and/or French as we are looking to drive convergence across our wider Business Units and are keen to bring someone who can support our wider strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

1. To build and lead Project team ensuring the clarity of roles, responsibilities and skills for successful project delivery are in place.
2. To produce, manage and execute project plans, including a communication and review strategy ensuring regular updating of senior management and stakeholders on progress.
3. To manage all processes relating to the completion of Service Level Agreements as agreed for hand over to I.T. support and service and any relevant business areas or third party providers, ensuring the smooth embedding of the new technology delivered.
4. Responsible for managing all aspects of the end-to-end deployment of the project, enabling the delivery of clear business benefits as agreed by the Sponsor and senior management.
5. To manage the sign off and closure of the project, including the return of the project team members back to their teams, closure of the project budget and post-implementation review, making sure that all project learning’s resulting delivery project management process improvements are implemented.
6. To recruit, delegate, manage and mentor potential internal or external project manager in charge of a part of a programme or small project.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience Required:

1. Experience of managing at least 3 concurrent projects with a significant IT element from start to finish. 
2. Experience of managing project teams with greater than 10 FTEs involving 3rd parties, Business change teams and budget of over £500k
3. Good functional understanding of Finance processes
4. Proven delivery of projects across multiple geographies

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