ERP Project Manager

Building A Sustainable Tomorrow

BAM UK&I are seeking a highly experienced ERP Project Manager to join us on a 24 month fixed term contract. 

You will hold responsibility for the overall project plans, tracking of project status, and the provision of this information to the programme management team. Adheres to the governance and PMO operating model, scope control & internal programme portfolio management, reporting standards, manages project progress reporting, risk & issue management, workshop facilitation, and external governance.

Your Mission

Manage the internal and external dependencies across the projects including the critical path dependency plan. Accountable for the creation, maintenance and governance of the project level release plans from Level 1 – Level 3, ensuring the plans are resource loaded, critical path defined and dependencies identified across releases. Provides support to the release managers in identifying plan risks and taking actions to mitigate. Ensures that supporting Level 4 & Level 5 trackers are correctly set-up and maintained.

• Creating a method for monitoring the progress of the projects and improving efficiency
• Developing strong relationships with team members, vendors and partners
• Managing resources and ensuring timely delivery of projects
• Supervising and coordinating activities of the parties involved in the projects
• Preparing reports and updating Directors and other stakeholders about the projects
• Resolving issues with management and stakeholders
• Confirming successful delivery at the completion

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall adherence to governance and methodologies for the projects across all releases.
• Manages and maintains the overall release plan and ensures that Release Managers and System Integrators adhere to the agreed planning principles and timelines.
• Ensures that reporting standards are adhered to as well as the timely production of consolidated programme level reporting.
• Manages the project risk & issue process ensuring that risk & issue maintenance standards are adhered to, acts as 1st escalation at programme level.
• Maintains the project scopes and internal project management process to ensure release plan integrity maintained.
• Responsible for compiling draft monthly Steering Committee, Operating Committee, and ad-hoc C-Suite leadership packs
• Accountable for running the internal project checkpoint and stage gate governance processes, highlighting areas of potential risk to the overall plan achievability, to time, cost and quality.
• Works closely with the Release Managers and System Integrators to ensure adherence to programme governance and methodology.
• Works closely with the Group IT PMO  and strategic projects team to ensure cross-programme and project dependencies are tracked and managed.
• Analysis of the plans for timeliness of activities, utilisation of resources, slippage against baseline and management of internal & external dependencies and for the creation of appropriate reporting to the plan owners recommending corrective action where necessary.
• Development and operation of planning standards, process, tools and reporting across a large scale programme plan.
• Representing the Planning function and assisting release managers and workstream leads with planning queries within their responsible area and providing advice and guidance on technical planning matters.
• Interfacing & reporting externally to the required stakeholders and internally on the project on a regular and timely basis.
• Production of planning based metrics.
• Identifying, defining and implementing planning based improvements in the planning process and interfaces.
• Tracking of business resource requirements and ensuring the resource plan (supply) and availability trackers are up to date and accurate.
• Seeks to mitigate and/or escalate project risks & issues to protect the plan

Who Are We Looking For?

• Ability to operate and move between strategic and operational level thinking.
• Excellent leadership and people management skills.
• Experience with large-scale business transformation programmes enabled by SAP S/4 HANA.
• Expert in utilising scalable governance & methodologies building on industry best practices
• Design and implementation of planning and reporting processes.
• Advance project planning, controlling and management skills (expert level) including MS project planning toolsets
• Facilitating the development of workstream plans and integrated into an overarching Programme plan.
• Experience of delivering planning on multi country - multi process Business, IT and SAP & S/4 HANA.

What’S In It For You?

• Competitive salary
• A wide range of family friendly policies
• 8 % matched pension contributions
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• 26 days holiday
• 2 wellbeing days
• 1 volunteering day
• Personal and professional development

Your Work Environment

People are at the heart of what we do at BAM. We recognise that creating a diverse and inclusive environment that nurtures our employees and encourages them to bring their best and whole self to work is crucial. We’re on an exciting journey to get us there by recruiting the very best talent to join us regardless of race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or other characteristics.
Be you! Join us today, so we can achieve amazing things together and build a sustainable tomorrow.

Who Are We?

The art of building is about building for communities; it’s about building for life.

Where others stop, we go further, leading the way towards a sustainable tomorrow for us and future generations. As an industry leader, we raise the bar.

Our values: sustainable, inclusive, collaborative, reliable and ownership, enable us to achieve our ambitions. Today, tomorrow and every day.

Our Recruitment Process, What You Need To Know?

BAM is committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment and onboarding process, so if at any time you feel we need to do something to make it more accessible to you, do not hesitate to speak with one of our team, and we will do our best to support you.

For more information or an informal conversation about this exciting career opportunity please contact Paul Howes, Recruitment Manager paul.howes@bam.com 

Closing date 23rd September