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Hours: Monday to Friday 08.30-17.00 – 40 hours per week, flexibility to work evenings/nights/weekends if required to support with projects.
Location: DHL Aviation at London Heathrow Airport - travel will be required up to 2 days per week to East Midlands Airport
Grade: K
Department: Programmes and Performance
DHL is the most international company in the world with a global network in over 220 countries and territories across the globe, and a workforce exceeding 500,000 employees serving 2.8 million customers worldwide. We pride ourselves on our inclusive and diverse workforce, as demonstrated through our initiatives such as DHL4All.
As DHL continues to grow, we’ve an excellent variety of employee benefits available! These include:
- Competitive salary, including unsociable hours shift allowance
- Annual bonus (depending upon individual and company performance)
- Free onsite parking
- My DHL Rewards (discount, saving, cash back at over 3000 retailers)
- Pension Scheme with up to 6% company contribution
- DHL Share Purchase Plan (after 3 months)
- Private Medical Scheme (after 12 months)
- Access to Occupational Health
- Enhanced Maternity pay (after 12 months)
- Cycle to Work scheme
- CIS Induction – a week’s all expenses paid induction to our Company Values!
- HealthyMinds – Employee Assistance Programme
Key responsibilities:
We are looking for a dedicated individual to join our team as Project Manager. In this position, you will be working as part of the wider Projects team, where you will be responsible for seeing a project from its initial planning stages through to completion. You will largely be responsible for overseeing infrastructure projects.
- Oversee allocated projects and ensure they are completed on time and within budget
- Ensure all team members and functional work stream leads uphold the company's standards throughout each project
- Management of a complex set of activities, which will have conflicts and compromises to be evaluated, agreed and managed
- Embed PM standards and governance within the function and throughout various internal functions
- Support the PMO in coordinating all project plans into one overall programme, fully transparent to all key stakeholders
- Understanding the H&G UK business, and ensuring their projects fully align to the long term vision
- Continuously evaluating projects to ensure they are meeting company standards, adhering to budgets, and meeting deadlines
- Manage the deployment of individual projects within the programme ensuring they are delivered on time, on budget and with required standards of quality.
- Planning project management, including setting deadlines, prioritizing tasks, and assigning team members to various deliverables
- Initiate Post Implementation Reports (PIR) including benefit realisation, and Lessons Learned Report
- Support the communication of the overall programme
- Build and manage an effective deployment team to achieve the timing and objectives of the projects.
- Review and actively manage the risks and issues for all projects in their responsibility
- Reporting:
- Manage the monitoring and reporting of their assigned projects to key stakeholders and the H&G UK SMT (Senior Management Team).
- Maintain individual project KPI’s that track the progress to both plan and budget.
- Budget management:
- Track and monitor costs of projects, ensuring Finance governance is followed
- Leading the development of assigned Business Cases in alignment with the Regional Investment
- Development of business cases:
- Business Case process, including gathering data and information to support the Business and financial justification
- Support functional teams and HODs in business processes for requesting investments
- Stakeholder engagement:
- Identify and obtain necessary business support for the management, planning and control of the projects
- Develop constructive partnerships with the functions of procurement, facilities, real estate, security, engineering, finance, IT, DHL Air, Hub Ops, C&L, customs, NCG, Network Ops and Express to ensure successful cross-functional working and implementation of projects.
- Act as the primary interface for each specific deployment project between field operations management, property, HR, IS, ensuring that the plans for operational excellence are challenging and achievable.
- Safety:
- All employees are responsible for the health and safety of themselves and also those affected by their activities.
- You are expected to take appropriate action when any situation occurs that could create a serious or imminent risk to the Health and Safety of yourself or any person whilst at work.
- You must conduct yourself in an orderly manner within the workplace, ensuring that correct uniform and PPE is worn when required.
You’ll bring to this role:
- Minimum three years relevant large project management experience
- Comprehensive knowledge of Prince2 methodology and linear process-based project management is essential.
- Exceptional project management skills.
- Good understanding of the necessary project management controls, execution and control principles and critical path management - PRINCE2 to optimize the program delivery
- Proven experience in multi-discipline projects management / change management
- Experience facilitating large project multi-disciplinary teams
- Ability to coordinate tasks to project teams and facilitate flow of work
- Well-developed project/process management, prioritising and analytical skills with strong business acumen
- Proven ability in report writing, PowerPoint presentation and ability to prepare analytical reports
- Required qualifications:
- Good standard of education (ideally to first degree level standard or equivalent experience and development within the working environment).
- Recognised project management qualification (ideally PRINCE2 or equivalent)
Required competencies:
- A safety first attitude. You must conduct yourself in an orderly manner within the workplace, ensuring that correct uniform and PPE is worn when required.
- Great eye for detail and meticulous planning skills
- Good diplomatic skills, considerate to all perspectives
- Well organised and multitasking skills
- Ability to work in a dynamic and time-pressurised environment
- highlighting and interpreting key business information
- Good communication skills, negotiating and influencing and establishing working relationships and developing personal contacts and networks within and outside of the business
- A positive Can Do attitude
- Excellent project planning skills
Applications:To apply for the position, please submit your CV detailing your full and complete 5 year history including employment, education and any gaps of unemployment longer than 28 days. Please note, if you are an internal applicant you are required to let your manager/supervisor know that you are applying for a new position.
Closing date: Wednesday 25th September 2024
Interview date:Interviews will be scheduled on either 1st or 2nd October 2024
Our recruitment process at DHL Aviation
From a candidate who has identified an exciting opportunity to join us and make a real difference, to becoming an established team member connecting people and improving lives, we want to ensure your journey is as smooth and enjoyable as possible. We ask competency-based interview questions to keep our recruitment processes fair and consistent, so please be ready to share your experiences and achievements with us! We also understand recruitment is a two-way process, so we’d ask that you share any feedback and ask questions along the way to ensure we are the right fit for you.
Next steps:Once you have applied for a role, an email confirmation will be sent to you to let you know we have received your application. A member of our HR Recruitment team will then be in touch with the outcome of your application, which may include a short pre-screening conversation. If you have any queries regarding the recruitment process or for more information on our roles, please contact us viahguktalent@dhl.com
Please note:Due to the nature of our business we are regulated by the CAA (Civil Aviation Authority), therefore it is compulsory for all applicants to provide a full 5 year employment history. In addition to this, we are required to carry out a Criminal Record check.
