Job Description :

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Budapest

Contract: permanent

About us

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose – Celebrating life, every day, everywhere – has a meaningful role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we build shared value.

About the role

Project managers are responsible for driving complex projects from start to finish; proactively managing project risks, accurately reporting project progress to the Programme manager, and confidently interfacing with business stakeholders to ensure quality delivery and timely completion of the project.

The team will work in close collaboration with GPOs, technology teams, service delivery and markets across all levels of Diageo, as well as partners and third-party suppliers.

Top Accountabilities

·     Working closely with the GPOs, Technology, Markets and 3rd party partners, function heads and stakeholders at all levels

·     Driving the implementation of the project on a daily basis with regards to time, budget and quality

·     Defining the scope for projects with key stakeholders, ensuring that benefits are identified and tracked

·     Defining project milestones and deliverables

·     Preparing business cases; obtaining approvals and seeking budget

·     Selecting, developing and supervising an effective team, co-ordinating their activities and evaluating their performance

·     Working with multiple delivery and business partner teams to deliver change at pace and control project outcomes

·     Maintaining programme and project plans, including budget /resource plans

·     Developing effective governance frameworks; leading weekly/monthly Governance forums

·     RAID management – Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependency Management

·     Monitoring, reporting, and effective communication of project progress against plan to delivery teams, sponsors, stakeholders, PMO and other governance bodies.

·     Developing a consulting approach towards engagement and challenges through problem solving and critical thinking

Proactively manage project risks, resolve issues, and manage escalations

What you'll bring

Technical

Extensive program/ project planning and execution skills in leading large and complex change and transformation programs/projectsExperience of using a variety of project and business change management methodologiesValidated project and modelling skills, to represent information in forms that enhance decision making and communications.Strong understanding of Global Change delivery and program lifecycleExpert user of MS Project, JIRA or similar project management tools and MS Visio.Fluent in MS Office.Understanding of Lean / Six Sigma and Continuous ImprovementUnderstanding of Finance processes O2C, S2P, R2R

Qualifications and Experience Required

·     Educated to a degree level or equivalent

·     Accredited at Expert level in Lean or Black Belt Six Sigma certified

·     Professional Project Management Practitioner level qualification. PMP certified is a plus

·     3-5 years’ experience in Project Management or a related area

·     Recognised Subject Matter Expert in lean project management and governance

·     Relevant experience with complex projects and benefits management

·     Rich experience of leading small transformation teams of senior stakeholders

·     Experience of working in professional services or shared services

·     Experience of automation technologies / implementation, data projects

Benefits of working here

Outstanding Family Leave opportunity

We work without border - you will work with people from all over the world

You will deal with extraordinary brand portfolio

Wide variety of thematic events, afterwork activities organized by employee communities

Product Allowance to purchase company products from the staff shop

We won the Fittest Workplace Award, of course we have a Gym

Urban legend is true, we do have a Rooftop Bar

Inclusion & Diversity

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the outstanding contribution each person brings!

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Budapest

Additional Locations :

Bangalore Karle Town SEZ

Job Posting Start Date :

2024-09-05