Project Manager

Project Manager

One Strawberry Lane

This is a hybrid role where you’ll work from our Newcastle or Durham office 2 days a week and the rest from home

Salary: £43,500 to £50,000 pa, depending on skills and experience, with great benefits including Health Cash Plan

 

Home, a place where you belong

 

This is your chance to make a big impact, leading our strategic change initiatives that support the delivery of our organisational priorities at Home Group.  As Project Manager in our Repairs and Maintenance team, the programme of change is dynamic and you'll use your expertise to deliver system and operational improvements, along with DLO and contractor mobilisations.

 

It's all about building strong relationships, managing expectations, full stakeholder engagement and playing a key role in supporting change that benefits our customers.  Amazing we know!  

 

Typical day as Project Manager


* Leading business change across multiple departments using our Project@Home framework, where you’ll enhance the future of our Repairs and Maintenance services.


* Manage projects using both waterfall and agile SCRUM methods, ensuring timely and successful delivery, and collaborating with stakeholders to understand project scope and key deliverables, maintaining these important relationships whilst ensuring expectations are met.


* Utilise Smartsheet for planning, tracking, automating, and real-time reporting on project progress. 


* Ensuring agile delivery in our Repairs and Maintenance team, defining processes and managing products effectively.

 

It’s brilliant going home each day knowing that you had a hand in improving our customers lives for the better! You really do, do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Place to Work in the UK!

 

You have


* A PRINCE 2 or APM PMQ qualification with strong experience in applying agile and waterfall methodologies.


* Experience in project planning and resource management, using project controls and risk management.  You’ll be an expert in change management that is focused on delivering customer benefits.


* Exceptional communication, negotiation, and persuasion skills to achieve win-win outcomes.  You’ll be a great influencer and able to think outside of the box on how things can be done more efficiently.


* Able to build and maintain important stakeholder relationships, quickly gaining the confidence of colleagues and senior leaders.

 

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role.  This remains under regular review

 

Our team

Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you!  Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers.

You’ll join our team, who come from different walks of life and are here to support you as you make yourself at Home! 

 

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