Casual dining restaurant group currently in the market to appoint a Projects Director.
Accountabilities
• Works within the established PMO framework to deliver multiple projects.
• Applies established project management principles and processes to smoothly deliver successful projects: (to include project planning, leading and motivating the project team, project tracking and reporting, resource and task allocation, risk and issue identification and tracking)
• Creates and documents clear project briefs, plans, milestones, scope and resource requirements.
• Clarifies requirements and agrees clear success criteria and measurement protocols.
• Provides cost and time estimates.
• Assesses resource requirements and skill sets required to meet project goals.
• Tracks project progress against project plans and adjusts plans, where necessary, to ensure effective completion in line with success criteria.
• Reports on the status of projects.
• Drives issue resolution through appropriate issue and risk tracking and facilitating issue closure. Escalates appropriately.
• Tracks costs and maintains project budgets.
• Coordinates requests for change to key project metrics, e.g. scope, cost or resource requirements.
• Maintains an understanding of other technology and/or business change initiatives outside of the current in-flight projects, to ensure alignment and integration.
• Builds relationships with the key stakeholders for each project, be that internal or external, confirming requirements and proactively reporting project progress
• Manages stakeholder expectations, focusing on realising target business benefits for internal sponsors.
• Supervises and monitors the deliverables of project team members and suppliers to ensure on-time, on spec delivery.
Skills And Experience
• Good knowledge of business systems in a commercial environment
• Proven project management experience, ideally backed up with recognised standards-based qualifications
• Ideally from a multi-site retail and/or hospitality background
• Good knowledge of business systems in a commercial environment
• Ability to tailor and apply best practice project management processes and tools to deliver your work
• A track record in a demanding, fast-moving environment. Used to working across complex projects as well as running multiple workstreams
• Clear verbal and written communications. Adept at producing simple plans, roadmaps and status updates
• Excellent people management skills, able to motivate and coordinate a diverse project team, including external suppliers
• Good knowledge of business systems in a commercial environment, ideally from a retail and/or hospitality background. Behaviours
• Ability to challenge and influence.
• Holds others accountable.
• Thinks clearly and analytically to identify the best business and technical options.
• Ability to manage and resolve potential conflict.
• Hits deadlines. A deliverer who puts plans into action and gets the job done.
• Well organised. Structured approach. Close attention to detail, with a high quality ‘zero defect’ mindset.
• Hands on. Flexible approach; willingness to do tasks outside of project management remit if required.
Our client is looking for a candidate with experience in developing modern restaurant concepts.
