Information Technology Project Manager

IT Project Manager – Digitisation and Transformation

About the Role

DP World are recruiting for an IT Project Manager to provide support to the Regional IT team in providing IT Project management support across a wide discipline of both internal and external projects covering, Infrastructure, Transformation, Information Security, Contract Logistics, Freight, Ports and Terminals as well as global technology accounts.

Hybrid remote working based in London, Palace street

Role reporting to our IT Program Manager and supporting key projects across Europe and wider Global accounts.

NOTE: There will be 10-25% travel requirement to attend team and site meetings. There may also be some adhoc travel across Europe when projects and the business require.

Candidates must have permanent right to work in the UK in order to be considered for this position.

How you will contribute

• Manage multiple regional IT customer projects simultaneously.
• Translate the organization’s digital transformation goals into actionable projects, ensuring alignment with overall business strategy.
• Provide detailed project planning & workstream allocations for all involved parties.
• Determine the scope for each IT project and proactively manage the adherence to scope
• Determine resource requirements for all projects with the appropriate IT workstream owners
• Determine the Issues / Risks for all projects.
• Co-ordination of activities with each workstream lead
• Communicate effectively with all major stakeholders involved in the projects.
• Provide status level reporting for all active projects
• Task tracking, Issue tracking, Risk tracking, Budget tracking.
• Liaise with internal customers and external customers to provide project status reporting and visibility.
• Manage escalations within the IT Function to ensure timely responses to issue / risks.
• Facilitate the definition of requirements, acceptance and implementation of IT business solutions to ensure the realization of customer expectations.
• Liaison/point of contact between operations management and IT (software development, QA, DBA’s & infrastructure teams.)
• Management, diagnosis and prioritsation of issue logging in conjunction with Business Project Manager.
• Pro-actively manage risks / issues in advance of occurrence.
• Manage change control on all active projects.
• Support continuous process improvement throughout the project delivery lifecycle.
• Conform to the processes and requirements of the synchronized management system.
• Achieve effectiveness of the synchronized management system by following the Quality Policy and meeting company objectives.

What you will bring

• Project Management execution to internal SLA’s and KPI’s
• Team Leadership – build high performing team
• Stakeholder Management – engage with key stakeholders to maintain pipeline and effective communication on existing programs and projects
• Reporting – maintain comprehensive project reporting and documentation with regular status updates both weekly and monthly
• Budget/Risk/Resource – implement formal processes for managing budget/risk and resource within the team for the program and project level activities.
• Customer satisfaction – monitor and measure customer satisfaction for both internal and external customers

Compensation

DP World offers exciting and challenging roles within a growing international organization. We strive to hire and develop the right people, locally and globally, stimulating personal growth and self-development within an informal atmosphere. We offer a market competitive compensation package.

About DP World

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.

With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 103,000 employees spanning 75 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future.

We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades. The DP World family comprises of syncreon, Imperial and P&O.

What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW

TO CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE

DP World is committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO). We strongly believe that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success and we make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We believe that employees are happiest when they’re empowered to be their true, authentic selves. So, please come as you are. We can’t wait to meet you.

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