DPD UK
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About DPD UK
DPD UK is a member of Geopost, a market leader in parcel delivery and e-commerce solutions, providing a broad range of delivery and innovative services for customers worldwide. DPD UK has a turnover of nearly £2 billion and aims to be the most sustainable delivery company in the UK. At DPD UK, we also strive to deliver the best service, use the best technology, and recruit and retain the best people in the industry.
DPD is a Valuable 500 company and a Disability Confident Employer.
Job Description
Our Portfolio Manager is looking for a dynamic Project Manager to join their highly skilled and high-performing team.
Role Overview
As a Project Manager, you will be accountable for the day-to-day management of projects, products, or services, under the remit of the Portfolio Manager. You will be the go-to individual to oversee all change (including responsibility for Projects, Changes, and Fixes), in line with established processes and using an accepted project management framework. You will also be responsible for mandatory changes such as security and platform upgrades for a Project, Product, or Service.
You will lead your project team to ensure their projects are delivered on time, to quality, and within budget. You will also ensure that any type of change relating to the project, product, or service is managed and communicated and that your projects comply with departmental standards.
Key Tasks/Areas of Responsibility
- Identifying and managing risks and issues throughout the life of a project, product, or service
- Ensuring all change follows the agreed methodology and adopting robust governance standards including compliance with data security regulations
- Working with stakeholders to define expected benefits and to create plans for their realization
- Working with nominated business representatives and/or experts to help qualify and put into content, any contact made directly to the IT Service Desk, or raised via other communication channels, to ensure work is prioritized effectively
- Ensuring all necessary change applicable to the project, product, or service are prioritized, planned, and communicated in line with the agreed portfolio priorities
- Liaising with the Portfolio Manager to ensure the required resource is scheduled in line with the agreed portfolio priorities
- Creating, issuing, and gaining sign-off on all project, product, or service documentation and plans
- Managing and reporting progress to the business against the baselined project as well as key milestones for all change planned, linked to the project, product, or service
- Delivering expected outputs to high-quality standards
- Engaging, communicating, and presenting to SMT members on all changes for a project, product, or service
- Managing external suppliers to ensure they deliver within contractual obligations
- Overseeing any allocated budget to deliver change associated with the project, product, or service, within the portfolio, ensuring the correct process for quoting, invoicing, and approval of spend are followed
- Capturing and reporting on lessons learned
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Key Measures of Performance
- Achieve a minimum of 90% of project methodology compliance per project
- Stakeholder/Sponsor satisfaction surveys
- Implementation of priority changes/fixes resulting in a reduction of open incidents and problems
- Budget & financial management of spend against a project, product, or service
Qualifications
About You
To be considered for this role, you must have extensive and demonstrable experience as a Project Manager, ideally within a large-scale, geographically dispersed, multi-layered organization. You will be Prince 2 or equivalent qualified and have an excellent understanding of project management methodologies. You will also be able to evidence successfully leading and inspiring your teams to deliver exceptional results.
You will be a confident communicator/presenter with the skills to lead and manage your project teams to ensure their projects are delivered on time, to quality, and within budget.
- A person capable of decisive and effective decision-making in a time-pressured environment
- A passion for building and motivating high-performing teams
- Have the ability to effect and successfully implement change
- Someone who really enjoys resolving problems and demonstrates high levels of resilience, self-motivation, and flexibility
- Demonstrate the core values of DPD DNA – Passion, Respect, Honesty, Flexibility, Caring, and Accountability
- Full clean driving license with a flexible approach toward travel is essential
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Remuneration and Benefits
Your package will include an excellent basic salary, company car or cash alternative, an attractive bonus scheme based on individual and company targets, and Private Medical Insurance.
As well as this, we recognize that our people are at the heart of our business, without them we wouldn’t be able to deliver our award-winning service to millions of customers across the country each day. It’s important to us that we demonstrate our recognition of you in providing you with more than just a salary and job stability. To name but a few…
- Holiday trading
- Enhanced maternity and paternity package
- Free life assurance of 4 x salary on joining the pension scheme
- Health Kiosks visiting every location
- Vitality at Work
- Free On-Site Parking
- Discounted shopping from hundreds of retailers, including up to 5% off supermarket shopping
- Milestone Days off to celebrate with your family and friends
- For employees who regularly use a screen as part of their job, we offer free eye tests and support with the cost of glasses
Joining DPD can lead to not just a stable job but also a career. DPD prides itself on recognizing and developing talent alongside a desire to promote from within. As a continually growing and evolving organization, we are proud to offer a great number of development and promotion opportunities.
If you identify with our aims and values and can help us deliver our customers' promises, then this is the job for you! Apply today.
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