Summary
- Salary
- Competitive
- Team
- Project and Programme Management
- Location
- United Kingdom - Malmesbury Office
About us
At Dyson, we demand the highest standard of performance from the technologies we engineer. Our people expect the same from the technology that supports them. We are a community that appreciates and advocates better engineering. A community of pioneers.
Dyson IT is growing. Our aim, to provide our users with state-of-the-art hardware and applications while creating a robust IT architecture, to manage data effectively and efficiently and continue to grow our world-class team. A team who is strategic, enabling business acceleration, growth and success.
About the role
The Corporate Functions Team is responsible for:
Driving continual improvement into the Corporate Functions space in line with Dyson’s growth
Working with the Functions Senior Leadership to align a multi-year IT roadmap to help support and realise the Functions strategy/objectives
Providing visibility/reporting to the Function on IT performance and works with the Function to drive continual service improvement
Delivering a roadmap for all Corporate Functions to drive transformation required to support Dyson’s blueprint
Providing the single point of contact for the Business Function into IT ensuring regular communication of service requirements, service improvements, risks, service changes, service outages and service issues
Our KPI’s driving overall improved productivity:
Velocity - Improved speed to deliver
Customer Satisfaction - User’s perception and ‘happiness’ with IT
One outcome One team - Delivering to a common business goal/outcome
Cost to serve and deliver - Cost to deliver and support reduces over time
Complexity - Systems and processes simplified and rationalised
Stability and Availability of Systems - Stability and availability of core business IT systems is high
Reporting to the Programme Manager, you will be responsible for:
End to end project management of small, medium or large complexity projects (or a combination) and upholding the highest standards of project management methodology including regular and effective communication with key stakeholders, reporting, governance, change management and thorough risk management
Representing standards and specifications in projects delivered by Corporate Functions, other areas of IT or the business while recognising regional requirements
Contributing to transforming Dyson IT Corporate Functions into a strategic function by ensuring projects are structured, well planned and executed to plan, budget and agreed scope
Creating exceptional quality project setup documents detailing scope, assumptions, success criteria, risks, governance structure (as it relates to wider IT PMO governance)
Enabling the growth and success of Dyson by working with team managers to produce checkpoint reports and project highlight reports, upholding the IT project management methodology, looking for improvements to discuss with the Programme Manager
Supporting or creating project business cases and accurate project budget requests through the project approval process
Throughout the project delivery tracking and measuring business case realisation in close partnership with Business Stakeholders
Effectively managing key project risks and issues
Being at the forefront of setting delivery and management standards within the Corporate Functions delivery community
Mentoring junior members of the team
Deputising for Programme Managers
About you
Outstanding interpersonal communication skills
Strong leadership abilities
Powerful change agent
A visionary with a proven track record in strategic planning, individual/team development, and service delivery
Possess solid matrix management skills with ability to understand and balance global standards and specifications with regional requirements
Innovation advocate
Desire to inspire others and lead by example
Essential:
At least 5 years’ experience of IT project management, ideally gained in consultancy or client side in large and complex organisations
Experience in related project delivery (Finance applications and SAP environment (including associated finance applications))
A proven record in project delivery
Good knowledge and experience of all stages of the project and programme lifecycle, including development of business cases, mobilisation of programmes, development, delivery, release, and project closure
Knowledge and experience of multiple project management methodologies
Experience of delivering medium-large sized complex projects with budgets in excess of £1M
Experience of successfully leading large multi-disciplinary project teams potentially across multiple organisations and locations
Experience of delivering globally scaled projects in a similar sized organisation
Comfortable briefing at Executive level
Business change management / communication planning
Ability to lead an engagement with a client
Budget management and financial reporting
Business case development and benefit realisation
Project management qualifications (APM, Prince2 or PMI)
Desirable
Experience of working for a consultancy or other professional services organisation
Experience working with 3rd party and/or offshore teams
Experience of value tender / vendor selections
Experience of Planview (our main PPM Integrated tool)
Benefits
Financial:
Performance related bonus
Company paid Life Assurance
Discounts on Dyson machines
Competitive pension scheme
Purchase additional holidays
Lifestyle:
27 days holiday plus statutory bank holidays
Free bus travel to and from Malmesbury/Hullavington campus from Bristol, Chippenham and Swindon
On-site parking
Endless free coffee and tea, and a free lunch
Free on-site hair salon
On-site lifestyle Assist
Electric vehicle scheme
Health:
Private Medical insurance for all employees
Employee Assistance Program for employee and dependents
Digital GP and prescription service
Fertility treatment support
On-site gym and sports centre
On-site wellbeing centre
Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.
