Junior Project Manager

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Founded in 1971 in Somerset, England, today Mulberry is a truly global fashion company and the largest manufacturer of luxury leather goods in the United Kingdom. Across all locations, we are united by our employee values: Be Bold, Be Open, Be Responsible, Be Imaginative.
If these are values you share, we would love you to join our team.
Scope of Role:
As Junior Project Manager you will take responsibility for the day-to-day management of Projects to ensure successful project delivery in terms of timescale, cost, and scope. The Junior Project Manager will manage multiple parallel projects and co-ordinate the resources of both internal and external teams to achieve successful implementations and mitigate risk.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Develop project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
- Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget whilst meeting customer expectations and company quality standards.
- Ensure resource requirements, availability, and allocation.
- Co-ordination of assigned CDL resources with relevant Team Leaders / Managers across CDL, client and 3rd parties to meet project objectives.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans to track progress and performance using appropriate systems, tools, and techniques.
- Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule, and costs.
- Maintain awareness of technical areas surrounding projects, industry knowledge, company organisation and issues.
- Define resources and schedule for project/program implementation.
- Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning.
- Plan and schedule project deliverables, goals, and milestones.
- Report and escalate to management as needed.
- Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders taking ownership for assigned tasks that may rely on the contribution of other team members.
- Efficiently identify and ensure all relevant issues are communicated appropriately, progress reports produced as requested & a pro-active containment/resolution plan devised.
Team:
- Ability to work well as part of a team and positively contribute.
- Ability to quickly adapt to change and support your team navigating an agile work environment.
- Ability to successfully collaborate with different areas of the business.
- Excellent inter-personal skills with the ability to influence, and even direct, both peers and senior managers where governance processes are required.
- Lead by example and inspire your team to excel at what they do, coaching and supporting them and enabling them to fully embrace our company values.
Brand:
- Understand and demonstrate the Mulberry employee values and behaviours: Be Bold, Be Imaginative, Be Open, Be Responsible.
- Support Mulberry to deliver an inclusive culture, through behaving in a way that is open-minded and respectful towards others, and understanding that your views, opinions, and experiences may not always be shared by your colleagues.
- Act as an ambassador for Mulberry and communicate positively about the brand.
Made to Last:
- Wherever possible, incorporate environmentally responsible practices into your work. Contribute to decreasing Mulberry's carbon footprint, helping to mitigate climate change and promoting a greener, more sustainable future.
- Support to foster an environment where diversity is embraced and all individuals feel valued, respected and included. Promote equity, empathy and understanding and demonstrate this commitment within your internal and external communities.
Skills & Knowledge:
- Experience delivering a projects end-to-end.
- Experience of Projects that require management of multiple teams across multiple departments (i.e IT, Commercial, Marketing, Legal).
- Experience of hybrid-working setup, ability to manage deliverables with disparate team members (i.e Project Management virtually and in office).
- Experience in stakeholder management.
- Experience communicating across all levels within an organisation.
- Understanding of different Project Management methodologies: Agile, Waterfall.
- Project Management qualification such as PMP, AgilePM, APMP preferable.
- Experience of JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint preferable.
- Experience working with Management and C-suite executives preferable.
Mulberry is an equal opportunities employer and we are passionate about hiring and developing the best talent. All hiring decisions are made only on the basis of qualifications, skills or experience and as they relate to the particular role. If you need us to make any adjustments to our application or interview processes to enable you to be at your best, please email us at #####.
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