Dyson Farming is a family-owned business, with a vision to benefit future generations through a commitment to commercially viable and environmentally sustainable food production at scale. We strive to be industry leaders in efficient, carbon-neutral, high-technology agriculture, employing highly skilled, pioneering people and supported by research and development in an ever-closer partnership with our sister company, Dyson. We see the future of agriculture as an exciting opportunity to improve the nation's food security, health, and economic growth.
Requirements
* Partner with stakeholders across the business to effectively identify, manage and deliver a range of IT, Systems and Finance projects on time, in budget and to scope.
* Maintain integrated project plans, highlighting key dependencies.
* Identify appropriate resources required and develop a project or programme plan to achieve the vision/brief.
* Report weekly or as required, and create management dashboards, about project progress, risks, challenges, actions, solutions, and results.
* Manage project level risks, actively identifying mitigations and escalating where appropriate.
* Identify and communicate the need, obtain sponsorship from senior leaders, develop briefs, scopes and objectives.
* Lead senior stakeholders across the Business to converge and agree the right approach to business and technical problems.
* Partner with senior stakeholders across the organisation to ready them for business change, i.e. consideration of impact, communication, training, stakeholder management, business readiness, benefits tracking etc.
* Build robust business cases where expenditure is required and present to appropriate steering committees or decision-makers.
* Manage changes in project scope, costs, resource and timing within the framework of agreed governance and change control process.
* Lead effective project or programme teams to deliver successful business outcomes.
Person Specification
* At least 5 years experience of working in a project management role with expertise in systems / IT and or Finance projects.
* Excellent project and change management skills using Prince 2 / APM / APMG / Lean methodologies to execute change.
* In depth knowledge and experience of all stages of the project life cycle including development of business cases and mobilisation of projects.
* Proven track record of operating successfully in a complex organisation.
* Experience in building relationships with internal and external stakeholders including senior management.
* Confident communication skills, with the ability to interact with individuals with technical and non-technical backgrounds.
Critical Competencies
* You are capable of taking the organisation on the journey of change, with first class communication and people skills.
* You can take complex issues and manage them simply, with the ability to articulate these back to senior level stakeholders.
* You are results driven, resilient, love a challenge and have a starter to finisher mentality. You take accountability for your work, not just focussing on the results but how you execute your work.
* You have highly developed communication skills, both oral and written.
* You consistently role model the values and foster the values in the team.
* You are an effective decision maker, comfortable with change and ambiguity and can act without having the total bigger picture.
Benefits
* 24 days holiday plus bank holidays.
* Life assurance.
* Pension scheme.
* Enhanced family friendly policies.
* Charitable Giving via payroll (Give as You Earn).
* Cycle to work scheme.
* Free annual flu jab.
* Free eye test.
* Employee Assistant Programme.
* Access to product discounts.
* Organised social events.
* Free parking.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Project Management and Information Technology
Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting
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