Project Manager

  • Drax
  • Selby, Yorkshire
  • Dec 07, 2021
Full time Executive

Job Description

Are you an experience Project Manager looking for a new opportunity? Look no further, our Commercial Transformation Team are hiring!

Our Commercial Team is going through a period of transformation, as a PM you'll be pivotal to delivering some of our change projects - ranging from small incremental changes through to large scale change programmes.

About the Role
This role is responsible for the management of the full delivery life cycle of all allocated projects in line with departmental standards.

Working closely with stakeholders and analysts to identify, challenge and agree the scope and critical purpose of each project - so ideally, we'd like the candidate to be confident in stakeholder communication!

Planning and managing project boards to provide status updates, highlight issues and to obtain decisions and direction, to then make sure that the projects are delivered on time, within budget and meet all of the agreed SLA's and KPI's.

About You
For us, it's important that you can demonstrate experience in managing and delivering business change and IT projects, and that you can give us examples where you have proactively managed change in project scope, identifying issues and devised contingency plans.

It is preferred if you have formal training and/or qualifications (to practitioner level) in project management.

If you've got experience in the energy sector, then that's a bonus - but not essential.

About Drax
At Drax, hybrid working is a strategic enabler to our organisational goals and vision. It helps us to empower our colleagues to work in the most productive way possible. We are open to discussing hybrid and flexible working, so that you can be where you need to be.

Drax is playing a vital role in helping change the way energy is generated, supplied, and used. To learn more about how we're enabling a zero carbon, lower cost energy future,

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