Project Manager - Business Optimisation

 

Main characteristics

Location

Sydney, New South Wales

Company

Oceans Group

Salary

Highly competitive salary

Employment type

Full time

Category

Information & Communication Technology

Job summary

About our client

The Fantastic story began with a humble stall at Sydney's Parklea Markets in 1989. Today, they are Australia's best value furniture and bedding retailer, and proud manufacturers of their own sofas and mattresses. Fantastic Furniture are a much-loved Australian brand with a personality big enough to match.

Part of the Greenlit Group, Fantastic Furniture is a retailer of the future. With over 78 superstores across the country, and the second most visited furniture website in Australia, they are committed to delivering a personalised and digitally empowered customer experience in-store and online.

This is both an exciting and opportunistic time to join Fantastic Furniture as the business continues to thrive, opposing the trend of a challenging retail backdrop, and yet still finds opportunity to change and transform itself.

About the role

Fantastic Furniture recognises that future success is dependent on its ability to change - that it requires strong project competencies to realise its business strategies. The Program Management Office (PMO) exists to drive a Project Management Framework - and ensure effective and consistent adoption and utilisation across Fantastic.

The purpose of the Project Manager role is to work closely with the Head of PMO, Project Coordinators, Project Working Group (PWG) team members, and stakeholders to help deliver major organisational projects efficiently and effectively.
This role will be to coordinate people and processes to ensure that Fantastic Furniture's projects are delivered on time, on budget and produce the desired results.

Your specific portfolio will be all the projects across the Support Office and corporate functions, such as Distribution, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, HR and Marketing for example. All projects will revolve around business transformation and improvement.

Although this role is not directly responsible for change management, this role will work closely and steer the Change Manager into action and help identify areas that need focus.

This role requires for someone who has a skillset blend somewhere between a Project Manager and Business Transformation Manager. The successful candidate will have experience in managing projects across a broad-based business spectrum of Commercial, Shared Services, Supply Chain / Operations and Process Improvement, and will include initiatives that help run the business and help change the business.

We are not necessarily looking for a Technology / IT Project Manager for this role, nor someone who is deeply intimate with software development lifecycles. The expectation of this role is that you can dive into a project and understand how different functions work within the business and possesses the requisite versatility to cut across multiple business domains.

Instead, you will be familiar with change management principles and methodologies and have demonstrable examples of leading or supporting the development and implementation of business change.

About you

Leadership is an expectation at Fantastic Furniture. Their leaders are committed to being Learners, Collaborators and Changemakers. They believe these are the key traits of fantastic leaders.

The Project Manager, Business Optimisation requirements are:Have Retail / FMCG / Supply Chain domain experienceBe a master of removing ambiguityProven capability to influence key decision makers and executivesYou will need to be a confident communicator and leaderHave experience in leading transformative initiatives across various business disciplinesCreate a collaborative environment by valuing and encouraging unique perspectives and encouraging openness, trust and empowermentDrive breakthrough thinking to create greater valueAdapt their coaching style to suit the needs of their teamDevelop and translate strategy into practical terms for othersProficiency in both technical project management and soft inter-personal skillsResiliency and the ability to handle competing demands on your time and energyAbility to negotiate 'win-win' outcomes and the assertiveness to keep business outcomes at the forefront of decision-makingReporting proficiency and experience in creating steering committee / senior leadership presentationsExperience in waterfall and hybrid agile environments, and intimate knowledge of popular project delivery approaches, tools, techniques and artifactsGrowth mindset and willingness to learnEmpathy and humilityVersatility and flexibility

Reporting into the Head of PMO, you will have a thorough understanding of the PMO standards, processes, and procedures to support Fantastic Furniture projects. This will include measuring project performance and deliverables using appropriate systems, tools, and techniques to ensure the project is delivered on time in full and on budget.
Within the Project, developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders, and ensuring operational feasibility will be imperative. You will use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs, and will develop and maintain a detailed project plan to track progress.

You will have strengths and skills that range between Project Management and Business Transformation Management as well as a good understanding of business processes and operations.

What's on offer

Outstanding base salary and package, coupled with significant future personal and professional development.

This is an exclusive and retained assignment being handled by Oceans Group. All direct and third-party applications will be forwarded to Oceans Group for consideration.