IT Application Project Manager- 12 Month FTC

Summary: The IT Project Manager role at Ocado Technology involves overseeing the delivery of technical projects, particularly focusing on a People costs program. The position requires extensive experience with Workday or equivalent HCM systems, as well as managing cross-functional teams and stakeholders globally. The role is critical for ensuring the successful implementation of IT services that support Ocado's strategic objectives. This is a 12-month fixed-term contract based in a remote working arrangement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple IT projects concurrently through the full project lifecycle.
• Create and maintain a complete set of project documents from initiation to closure, including project scope, business case, and deliverables.
• Coordinate all resources required to deliver projects (including 3rd parties) and act in a matrix management capacity.
• Manage and build key stakeholder relationships, both internal and external.
• Coordinate project inception - gather and analyse requirements, define and control scope, develop project plans.
• Identify and manage project risks, issues, and dependencies, and implement effective solutions to meet project deadlines, objectives, and outcomes.
• Track progress of delivery against agreed targets.
• Own associated project budgets.
• Identify and recommend opportunities for process improvements within each workstream.
• Construction of project budget requests and project change related to cost, timeline and deliverable quality.
• Oversight of required project change management activity.
• Definition of the project acceptance criteria and oversight of any required testing needed to demonstrate this has been met.
• Work closely with IT teams to ensure change is managed into ‘business as usual’ correctly and is set up for success.
• Regular reporting as required covering key project KPI’s.
• Seek and implement opportunities for process improvement and lessons learned to improve future project delivery performance and effectiveness.
• Initially running a year long people cost project across IT and finance departments working with global and local stakeholders.

Key Skills:

• Ability to work across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Project planning and management/delivery of complex projects to timescales, including experience of Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Excellent presentation, written and verbal interpersonal skills and the ability to work well with a variety of personalities and styles, at all levels in the organisation.
• Able to facilitate workshops with a range of stakeholders, suppliers & business users.
• Excellent critical reasoning, decision-making, and problem-solving skills to analyse situations, determine risks, and find solutions to prevent future issues and resolve recurring defects.
• Formal Project Management qualification - Prince2 / PMP / APMP or similar.
• Workday Proficiency – Hands-on experience managing Workday or equivalent HCM.
• Global HR/Payroll Knowledge – Understanding of international payroll structures, compliance, and best practices.
• Project Management Skills – Ability to plan, execute, and manage complex HRIS/payroll transformation projects.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: undetermined

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT