Project Manager - Change and Business Transformation
- Job type Contract
- Salary Negotiable
- Discipline Strategy, Change & Transformation
- Reference BBBH3592_1650494989
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 stakeholders, Project Working Group (PWG) team members, the PMO and Project Coordinators to help deliver major organisational projects efficiently and effectively.
In this role you will be coordinating people and processes to ensure that Fantastic Furniture's major project is delivered on time, on budget and produces transformational business results.
Your specific project is the Core Platform Upgrade (CPU) which will fundamentally change the business and have an impact on every part of it. Whilst this project revolves around systems and technology, your responsibility will be to own the business transformation side of its delivery versus the technical components. Although this role is not directly responsible for change management, the role will work closely with, and steer the Change Manager to identify the areas and actions that need focus.
This role requires someone who has a skillset blend somewhere between a Project Manager and Business Transformation Manager. This role sits firmly on the operating side of the business rather than in IT and therefore we are not seeking a technical project manager, nor someone who is deeply intimate with software development lifecycles. The expectation of this role is that you can dive into a huge project and understand how the different functions of the business work and therefore improve throughout the project, rather than with someone who only understands how software can be implemented.
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 - Change and Business Transformation requirements are:
Reporting into the PMO Manager, 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.
A key deliverable will be that you manage the project risks consistent with Fantastic Furniture's Risk and PMO framework and ensure there are regular Risk Management meetings run as a discipline to maintain and track progress of risks and issues for resolution.
Within the Project, developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical and 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
2-year fixed term contract with an outstanding salary, 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.