Junior Project Manager

• Lead simple business change project(s) or a workstream(s) within a larger project or programme to time, cost and quality.
• Provide reporting on project progress (including timelines / accuracy) to stakeholders in line with agreed timelines and standards. 
• Prepare relevant project collateral for various governance forums including steering packs and stage gates.
• Perform secretariat within own projects, ensuring meetings are minuted, actions and decisions are tracked and monitored to closure.
• Define and lead the cross-functional team required to support the delivery of the project.
• Work closely with Project Sponsors, SMEs and suppliers to fully identify business requirements.
• Ensure all projects have clear, agreed deliverables and success factors.
• Active maintenance, monitoring and management of project risks, issues, plan, finances, benefits, dependencies, and resources.
• Ensure that all aspects of the project are fully defined to ensure stakeholder requirements are achieved.
• Develop and execute fully resourced project plans and change management plans (sometimes with a Change Lead / Analyst). Coach leaders through change.
• Adhere to best practice delivery, adopting the appropriate methodology and tools as per the Co-op governance and delivery frameworks as set by the SPMO.
• Meet all SPMO data accuracy and reporting requirements.
• Work with sponsors and finance to ensure that the project business case is robust, that benefits and costs have clear ownership, are accurately estimated and tracked.
• Ensure maximum efficiency, and value for money, through robust cost challenge and management (budgets, estimates, forecasting, resource utilisation). Role model cost-consciousness in everything you do. Manage spend within project budget.
• Where relevant, manage external suppliers, working closely and effectively with Procurement.
• Ensure technical and business readiness for implementation / handover to maximise the business’ subsequent realisation of business benefits.
• Formally close the project, hand over deliverables, ensure cost centres are closed, and all documentation is complete
• Ensure lessons learned are documented throughout the project and presented at the post implementation review to drive into continuous improvement
• Upskill the business with basic project management skills so they can more easily self-serve in the future.
• Proactively develop own project management skills and experience through every assignment and undertake training and personal development.

Show You Care
We do right by our people and care about our Co-op, our member-owners and our communities.

• We support each other with kindness and compassion, listen and share honest feedback, and make sure we do things fairly and responsibly.

Do What Matters Most
Delivering our vision and purpose, and making everyone feel valued and included, is what matters most.

• We put our member-owners at the heart of what we do, take responsibility for our actions, and focus on doing the right things for our colleagues, communities and planet.

Succeed Together
Co-operation is our superpower; we're better and stronger when we work together.

• We value teamwork and shared goals, nurture an inclusive environment, and celebrate diverse thinking to create the best outcomes.

Be Yourself Always
We bring our best self to work and respect others for doing the same.

• We are confident to be ourselves, build trusting relationships, and welcome different people, change and challenge.

• Deploy delivery and SME resources into the project.
• Shape & enforce delivery standards & practices within the project.
• Hold strategic relationships with:
• Project Sponsors and business SMEs – to ensure visibility, alignment & support for critical initiatives.
• SPMO – to align delivery with governance, planning & prioritisation frameworks.
• Design Team – to ensure the project / workstream has the design capabilities required for effective delivery and partner to ensure effective upstream discovery / design activities enable change to be effectively defined for effective handover to delivery. 
• Finance – to ensure delivery performance aligns with investment plans & benefits tracking.
• DT&D & Product Delivery – to coordinate delivery across platforms & ensure feasibility of technical solutions.

Budget accountability - indirect project / programme budget accountability of up to £0.5m

• Able to facilitate effective decision making.
• Outcome-focused.
• Experience of project management / relevant transferable skills demonstrated.
• Matrix team leadership experience.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication & influencing skills. 
• Commercial acumen and some operational understanding / desire to learn.
• Strong EQ and curiosity.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity & drive delivery momentum.
• Strong organisation skills.
• Self-starter.

Accountability 

• Professional roles providing expertise and advice, or middle management roles leading operational teams. 
• Manages team delivery in accordance with agreed budgets. 

Impact 

• As a people-leader, takes responsibility for the delivery of operational work over short timeframes, empowering their team to deliver discrete pieces of work based on set procedures.
• As an individual contributor, provides thought leadership to determine the most effective approach to challenges within own area of expertise. · Supports and promotes a culture of inclusivity through the actions they take. 

Co-operation 

• Contributes to short-term planning within the team and collaborates with peers to deliver great work that enables the team to succeed. 
• Identifies and shares opportunities to improve the way the Co-op operates, to successfully achieve our vision