Senior Project Manager – Brands’ Finance & Reporting

Summary

Brands Delivery Manager

Responsibilities

• Project manage invoicing/payment e2e for Brands, including but not limited to:
• Work with Finance to review and overhaul Procure to Pay (P2P) process for Brands
• Identify root causes of issues across multiple areas (e.g. Product Setup, Supply Chain), identify and implement fixes
• Create and embed effective governance, reporting and KPIs to ensure an efficient and effective operation
• Across the programme and projects you own:
• Deliver objectives on time, to the right quality and to budget
• Identify and flag risks and issues, and initiating appropriate mitigation/corrective action where required
• Communicate across partner teams and key stakeholders to keep them engaged throughout the project lifecycle
• Identify KPIs for projects and then embed robust mechanisms to track against these KPIs
• Manage multiple cross-functional stakeholders across the business to ensure successful delivery of change
• Troubleshoot and solve issues that arise
• Identify where projects can be expanded to go further than 3PB to impact and drive improvement across the M&S business; understand and detail interdependencies between projects and across Business Units
• Identify and prioritise changes in the reporting (internal and external) and invoicing/payment processes, including:
  • Customer, Brand Partner and Colleague pain points
  • Missing capability vs. best-in-class Brand retailers
  • Opportunities to simplify, automate and offshore
• Portfolio of short term projects and longer term projects (5 year timeframe)
• Direct and coordinate internal and external resources (SMEs, Stakeholders and partners) in a cohesive manner to ensure project success
• Work closely with Brand partners to understand their needs and drive improvements in the operational partnership

Qualifications

• An experienced Project Manager with a background in leading project/programme management
• Able to demonstrate a proven record of scoping, building and delivering complex and fast paced projects, to time, cost, scope and benefit
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) with the ability to challenge, influence and inform stakeholders and Brands
• Experience of working across different partner teams
• Comfortable with ambiguity, with the ability to adapt quickly and effectively
• Strong analytical skills and working with large data sets
• (Preferred) experience working with Tech teams
• (Preferred) understanding of and experience in Finance processes
• (Preferred) understanding and experience working with large data sets

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