OVERVIEW:
This role exists to lead the Property Development Programme within Cosec; ensuring feasibility, scope, plan and execution set to allow us to deliver our property strategy (which includes new store openings, Property development across Retail and Office functions and business optimisation working with Procurement) and its intended benefits.
Managing cross functional teams within a complex multi-function, multi-specialism department; with accountability for the leadership, management and successful delivery of a range of strategic change and value driven related projects across retail and office real estate and the wider business.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:
- Reporting to the Head of Facilities and Project Management, this role leads the Property Programme and Strategy across all regions. Bringing together delivery functions across People, Product, Finance, Merchandising, Supply Chain, Property, Retail Operations, Legal, Technology & Brand. Managing the Property Programme and supporting development and business improvement within the organisation
- Scoping, defining & managing overall objectives; deliverables; work packages and tasks across the Global Programme.
- Planning, monitoring & managing a team to deliver a complex cross functional programme, simultaneously, from start to finish [from scoping & kick-offs to closure and BAU hand-off]
- Responsible for the integrity and stability of the Property Programme; adapting for and supporting all constituent workstreams and delivery styles
- Maintaining and administering programme plans, including the critical path; risks; issues; dependencies and budget [where needed]
- Responsible for project resource-planning; ensuring suitable and adequate resource and representation is assigned
- Responsible for reviewing and challenging Project Working Groups and stakeholders to deliver projects to plan
- Identifying, managing, mitigating and/or escalating programme-level risks, whose impact threaten Retail, Property or the wider business.
- Reporting programme progress against success metrics, to the Head of FM and PM, stakeholders and business leadership through regular, accurate reporting
- Acting as the key point of contact for the Property delivery programme
- Evaluating programme status and outputs of PIRs; identifying lessons learned and executing plans to act on these in future with senior stakeholders
- Championing of the Property Programme ambition and strategy; providing support, challenge, and relentless enthusiasm to deliver the best possible outcomes
- Showcasing Property Retail Programme as ‘what good looks like’ to the wider business; through utilising the Property Programme framework.
- Championing continuous development; driving simplification & consistency for projects and programmes within GS [tools, processes, documentation, ways of working].
- Nurturing and developing junior colleagues, not only to develop programme management and leadership skills, but to ensure support in depth in programme delivery.
Accountable for:
- Ownership and management of the Property Programme including Retail and Office’s; across the business; keeping activities aligned across all workstreams; ensuring on-time, to-budget delivery.
- Realisation of all Programme outcomes and benefits, as defined by the Property Programme.
- Ownership of Programme objectives, deliverables, and framework [structure, delivery plan, incl. critical path; budget; RAID].
- Chairing Programme meetings, communicating progress regularly and providing accurate reporting to Property & GS Leadership, incl. Steering, Executive & Board Committees.
- Prompt & effective resolution of issues; assessment & management of risk [to projects and programme], seeking and recommending solutions to mitigate.
- Accountability for programme budget, where appropriate.
- Management of and on time delivery of project spend budgets of value circa £1m-£9m per project.
WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
Essential Criteria:
- Extensive experience of Programme Management and change delivery within a dynamic and fast paced programme environment.
- Experience of delivering global retail projects with multiple internal and external work streams
- Solid experience of managing a Programme team and mentoring.
- Change-native; with evidence of successfully delivering complex, x-functional projects as part of large-scale, transformational programmes of work
- Experience designing, building & delivering complex projects, with high levels of business change; and sustainably embedding into BAU
- Solution-orientated mindset with an ability to work accurately at pace and cope with ambiguity
- Effectively managed project budgets; owning & facilitating related decisions
- People-first mindset with vast experience in people management [matrix / ‘dotted line’]
- Proficient with office and project management software [MS Project]
- Proficient with project management methodologies such as PRINCE2 and or Agile; with a thorough understanding of techniques and methodology
- Strong experience in design of and process improvement within change delivery environment
CLOSING DATE: Monday 22nd December