Exceedra are a fast paced, dynamic software company, disrupting the Integrated Business Planning and Revenue Management Software market. Our software enables consumer goods organizations to maximize their revenues and have clearer visibility of their Trade Spend ROI. Our solutions focus on empowering user experience through simplicity, presenting a complex business process in an easy to use tool.
The purpose of this role is to ensure successful delivery of Exceedra EMEA projects, as well as supporting continuous improvement of Exceedra’s standard project delivery framework across Exceedra’s entire portfolio.
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Job Specification
Key Accountabilities
- Ensuring successful delivery of assigned client projects, to agreed time, budget and quality. This will include:
- Ensuring customer responsibilities are met and any blockers which arise are resolved.
- Working with the EMEA technical lead and engagement consultant to ensure that all required tasks are correctly captured, estimated and transferred into a project plan.
- Managing the day to day tasks of the project team to ensure that all activities are completed as planned, and any blockers or issues addressed.
- Acting as the primary point of contact for clients’ regular updates and ad-hoc queries, for their portfolio of projects.
- Capturing and managing the mitigation of risks.
- Managing the task management tool used by Exceedra (JIRA).
- Tracking and monitoring all time booked to their projects.
- Input to continuous improvement of standard project framework, to be adopted by all project managers within Exceedra.
- Provide internal reporting on the status of projects within their portfolio, including progress, risk and issues and project financials.
- Acting as a super user for Exceedra’s task management tool, JIRA, providing advice and guidance to project team and clients as required.
The above list of duties is not exhaustive and is subject to change. The post holder may be required to undertake other duties.
- The role holder will work to a set of objectives as agreed with the PMO Lead. These will include:
- Delivery of agreed projects
- Contribution to the standard project framework.
This role does not have management responsibility for any staff members.
- Ensuring that technical tasks are delivered in line with project timescales using a limited and relatively junior resource pool.
Personal Specification
Essential
- Understanding of project management methods and best practices.
- Understanding of software development lifecycles.
- Project management and all associated disciplines
- Requirements analysis and definition.
- Stakeholder management
- Communication Skills
- Team working
- Commercial awareness
- Producing project reports and presentations
- More than 3 years of project management experience.
- Good at working with people
- Organised
- Pro-active
- Completer-finisher who takes ownership for their tasks
Desirable
- Relevant project management certification.
- Understanding of working in customer-facing environments.
- People leadership.
- Team management.
- Experience of producing KPIs.
- Project management experience in a customer-facing delivery role.