| Employment Type | Contract |
|---|---|
| Location | West Yorkshire, Yorkshire |
| Industry Sector | Civil |
| Start Date | asap |
| Salary/Rate | c£55 p/h |
| Reference | 57947 |
| Date Advertised | 02-06-2008 - 00:01 |
Interim Project Manager - Responsible for delivering projects (products/services) to meet the business requirements, specifically Specification/Quality, Time & Cost (Product & Project).
Principal Accountabilities
Planning - Working with Group account manager, Chief technical engineer, Commercial Analyst and Head of Engineering to support new business negotiations with first-cut estimates and advice. Work with customer, Group account manager and Chief technical Engineer to ensure user's requirements is clearly understood and agreed. Once a project has been approved for planning, responsible for delivery of product and supporting documentation (cost plan, project plan, risk log, product requirements specification). This will include more accurate product cost forecast and a refinement of the original business case for the project based on the planning work. Negotiations with suppliers and 3rd parties to ensure that they can support the plan (e.g., software vendors and CA approvals houses). Negotiation with resource pool and technical services to ensure that the plan to be presented for approval for development is fully resourced. Prepare all documentation, including SoW's for the use of ODM involvement, with assistance from the ODM Group. Presentation of the project for approval for development to the Customer account team.
Benefits realisation - Responsibility for delivering products and services to agreed budget, time-scales and required level of quality, including the management of risk to ensure these objectives are made. Instil awareness of the commercial implications of all selection decisions relating to Design, Materials and Manufacturing Methods. Drive continuous cost reduction and development efficiency activities, continually searching for potential upside opportunities in schedule, product cost, product margin, product quality, product reliability, and project cost. Project scope, Project Controls, Change Management & Project Closure & Review.
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Interim Project Manager - Responsible for delivering projects (products/services) to meet the business requirements, specifically Specification/Quality, Time & Cost (Product & Project).
Principal Accountabilities
Planning - Working with Group account manager, Chief technical engineer, Commercial Analyst and Head of Engineering to support new business negotiations with first-cut estimates and advice. Work with customer, Group account manager and Chief technical Engineer to ensure user's requirements is clearly understood and agreed. Once a project has been approved for planning, responsible for delivery of product and supporting documentation (cost plan, project plan, risk log, product requirements specification). This will include more accurate product cost forecast and a refinement of the original business case for the project based on the planning work. Negotiations with suppliers and 3rd parties to ensure that they can support the plan (e.g., software vendors and CA approvals houses). Negotiation with resource pool and technical services to ensure that the plan to be presented for approval for development is fully resourced. Prepare all documentation, including SoW's for the use of ODM involvement, with assistance from the ODM Group. Presentation of the project for approval for development to the Customer account team.
Benefits realisation - Responsibility for delivering products and services to agreed budget, time-scales and required level of quality, including the management of risk to ensure these objectives are made. Instil awareness of the commercial implications of all selection decisions relating to Design, Materials and Manufacturing Methods. Drive continuous cost reduction and development efficiency activities, continually searching for potential upside opportunities in schedule, product cost, product margin, product quality, product reliability, and project cost. Project scope, Project Controls, Change Management & Project Closure & Review.Scope Management, Time Management & Cost Management. After launch, co-ordinate assessment, diagnosis and resolution of any issues/problems that may arise in line with the commercial commitment, and ensure that the customer is satisfied with the product. Support life cycle revenue & margin through new feature developments.
Monitoring & Control - Develop, monitoring and distribute of project specific plans, capturing and reporting progress against Project Plans utilising project-based planning tools. Work in partnership with other functions in the wider team to secure necessary cross-functional input to projects and to secure necessary core technology, design and test inputs, ensuring that all milestones on the plan are achieved. Work with Operations and Technical Services to ensure that volume manufacture starts smoothly and on time. Work in partnership with the ODM partners (with support from the ODM group) to secure necessary cross-functional input to projects, ensuring that all milestones on the plan are achieved and volume manufacture starts smoothly and on time. Establish and monitor groups development targets and schedules to ensure timely completion within budget and to the required quality, continually questioning, challenging and checking of progress on tasks being performed by the team, by other teams and by third parties. Develop, manage, and report progress against departmental objectives as appropriate, with regular reporting of project progress "actuals" against forecast and original plan for all business metrics, including schedule; milestones; product cost; project cost and estimate to completion etc. Collation and preparation of required documentation for each gate in the Pace development process to progress the project through the Design Verification, Pre Production. Production and Shipping stages. Project Management Plan, Stage Management, Project Reporting, Gantt charts, Project Cost Accounting to support the above tasks.
QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential - Successful track record of managing High Technology New Product Development Projects from concept to manufacturing, including customer facing experience. Effective Management of large teams (e.g. >20 people) in a combined project and matrix management environment. Experience of planning and executing complex New Product Development Projects with Multi-Disciplinary Teams, including work breakdown structures. Experience of stakeholder management (including customer management) and the line management of Engineering teams with proven ability to lead and direct team through the extensive use of training, motivation, and development techniques. Strong negotiating skills including schedule negotiation with commercial teams, third parties and customers.Experience of project based financial management, cost estimation/control and risk identification, triage, assessment and management. Thorough understanding of the needs of "development to manufacture".
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