Senior Project Manager
About the role:
Reporting to the Head of Operations and working collaboratively with other senior managers, the Senior Project Manager will play a crucial role in ensuring the successful delivery of all operational projects in line with cost/time/quality requirements. This role will also support the organisations project delivery of its key significant projects across all departments to enhance organisational initiatives, drive growth, and ensure long-term collaboration.
You will be an accomplished project manager, with a high degree of business acumen and substantial experience of setting up and delivering projects working with and through multiple stakeholders and partners. This position requires a methodical thinker with excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills and a proven track record in project management and reporting. Providing rigorous operational support and programme administration as needed.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
Key Responsibilities
•To support the implementation of the new project management approach for Drinkaware.
•Day to day project management from start to finish for key identified operational projects, supporting cross functional teams to deliver.
•Collaborating with colleagues to ensure effective evaluation and impact assessment of each programme.
•Maintain accurate and comprehensive project and programme management documentation.
Project Delivery
•Manage multiple large-scale projects that require strategic planning and stakeholder management.
•Resource Management – Oversee and ensure all projects have the right resource allocation and are managing budgets and tracking progress against key milestone.
•Risk Management - Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to keep projects on track.
•Work in collaboration to scope, plan and coordinate project activities with clearly defined objectives, outputs and critical success factors for operational projects.
•Proactively address issues and challenges that may arise during project execution.
•Ensure proactive and effective project communications to all relevant parties (internally and externally).
•Project collateral and content development.
Working with us:
Our Drinkaware staff team is friendly, professional and inclusive. We care about what we do and how we work together and bring our values to life. Drinkaware invests in staff development through regular one to one meetings, a generous individual training budget, teatime tutorials and staff awaydays, and an annual learning and wellbeing grant. Drinkaware’s current benefits include:
Competitive and benchmarked salaries
30 days leave (plus Bank Holidays)
Matched company pension scheme up to 7.5%
Life assurance cover
Company sick pay
Holiday purchase/sell back scheme
Training and development opportunities
Employee assistance programme
Season ticket loan
Perks and discount platform
Hybrid Working Model:
At Drinkaware we currently operate a hybrid model with colleagues working a minimum of 2 days per week in our Moorgate office and the remainder remotely.
