IT Finance Project Manager

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 300 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ 11,000 people and operate in more than 55 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.

What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model

**Job Description**:
Purpose

To manage and ensure successful end to end delivery of IT projects or IT work stream of business projects to agreed scope, time-frame, cost, and quality.

Major/ Key Accountabilities
- Develop project scope and objectives, the identification & evaluation of options for project delivery and the preparation of a project documentations and plans
- Ensure that IT solution requirements are defined, delivered, and monitored
- Ensure quality control procedures are used correctly
- Establish the IT solution delivery project team(s) working methods
- Develop schedules and work packages for the IT project delivery team
- Monitor and adjust activities, resources, and plans
- Control hand-over of responsibility for the IT solution to business as usual support-Initiate and influence key stakeholder relationships
- Influence organisation, customers, suppliers, partners, and peers on the contribution of own specialism.
- Build appropriate and effective business relationships.
- Make decisions which impact the success of assigned projects i.e. results, deadlines and budget.
- Perform an extensive range and variety of complex technical and/or professional work activities.
Understand the relationship between own specialism and wider customer/organisational requirements.
Analyse, design, plan, execute, and evaluate work to time, cost, and quality targets.
- Assess and evaluate risk.
- Facilitate collaboration between stakeholders who have diverse objectives.
- Understand the relevance of own area of responsibility/specialism to the employing organisation.
- Take customer requirements into account when making proposals.
- Analyse requirements and advise on scope and options for continuous operational improvement.
Take account of relevant legislation-Take initiative to keep skills up to date.
- Maintain an awareness of developments in the industry

Challenges - Problem Solving

Problem solving relates to the requirement in the role to analyse, reason and arrive at conclusions to solve problems. This can be range between routine and patterned (day-to-day within procedures) or more complex in nature requiring analytical and innovative solutions

Dealing with ambiguity will be key to unpacking complex requirements and influencing technical solutioning

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business or related field, or equivalent combination of education/experience.
- Project Management certification (PMP, Agile or CAPM) from PMI (desirable) Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt (desirable)

Experience
- Significant previous experience within an IT Finance focussed role.
- 7+ years’ experience managing or influencing technical staff and projects.
- Proven success in improving the customer experience.
- Experience working within a matrix structure

Skills & Knowledge

Stakeholder relationship management
- Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management.
- Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.
- Implements a communications strategy, including, e.g. handling of complaints; problems and issues; managing resolutions; corrective actions and lessons learned; collection and dissemination of relevant information appropriately

Project management
- Takes full responsibility for the definition, documentation, and satisfactory completion of medium-scale projects (typically lasting 6-12 months, with direct business impact, teams of 3-5 and firm deadlines).
- Identifies, assesses, and manages risks to the success of the project.
- Ensures that realistic project and quality plans are prepared and maintained and provides regular and accurate reports to stakeholders as appropriate.
- Ensures Quality reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure.
- Manages the change control procedure, and ensures that project deliverables are completed within planned cost, timescale, resource budgets, and are signed off
- Provides effective leadership to the project team and takes appropriate action where team performance deviates from agreed toleranc