Project Manager
- Post Date:31st August 2023
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Job Description
Project Manager (Services and Automation)
About Us Domino Printing Sciences provides industrial printing expertise and reliable solutions to help the world’s manufacturers be sustainable and cut waste, while attracting, informing, and protecting consumers. Global manufacturers across the food and beverage, life sciences, personal care, agrochemical, and industrial sectors trust Domino to support them with innovative coding, marking, and digital printing solutions. Our products help ensure the success of manufacturers’ products by allowing them to create differentiated packaging, protect against counterfeiting, and ensure governmental and regulatory compliance. From best before dates on eggs, to serialised identifying codes on medicines, to batch codes on electronic components, to competition codes in confectionery, Domino helps to enable product safety, improved supply chain management and brand protection.
About the role
As an experienced Project Manager, you will lead multiple hardware-enabler projects – which will include product software – to deliver data- and customer-driven advanced services and automation, with a focus on outcome-based innovation. Your goal is to ensure projects deliver benefit and value to the business. You will mobilise and enable the project team, ensuring that the right people have visibility of the right information at the right time. In this role, you will gain insight and experience with a wide range of business functions and innovative specialisms.
This is a hybrid role working with a range of stakeholders, so you will be expected to be able to attend our Head Office in Bar Hill, Cambridge, at least once a week.
Your key activities will be to:
- Collaborate with the Services & Automation Programme Manager and Product Managers to ensure business alignment, develop suitable project strategies, and build realistic delivery plans, including release targets, metrics, milestones, deliverables, and review points Ensure robust governance and effective management controls throughout the project lifecycle, including preparation of project status reports
- Ensure effective management of stakeholders, budgets, resources, risks and dependencies, and benefits – including benchmarking and evidencing real-world value
- Drive collaboration and transparency between software and hardware teams, supported by effective and proactive communications and engagement
- Comply with the Domino governance process / Product Creation Process, whilst enabling flexibility and an agile mindset, ensuring the most efficient route to market
- Proactively participate in and promote our continuous improvement and automation initiatives to optimise our ways of working
- Champion Domino Project Management Office (PMO) best practice and promote a growth mindset, contributing to internal productivity improvements via ways of working and automation
About you
You have proven initiative and the ability to champion a programme or project from concept to implementation. Working collaboratively, your communication skills and experience of working in a cross functional team enables you to work seamlessly with multiple stakeholders. Your flexibility and agility enable you to focus on performance by working with the team to find the most suitable solution to a challenge, ensuring that our work delivers value back to the organisation. You are confident selecting the most appropriate approach to ensure project delivery. Understanding or experience of engineering or electronic innovation projects may be advantageous. Knowledge of software or agile management styles may be beneficial, as your hardware-enabler projects will often include some software development.
The Project Manager will champion a growth mindset and be actively involved in evolution of our ways of working and development of improved programme management structures and processes. At Domino, we are working to standardise ways of working and maximise our productivity as a team by optimising our use of the Microsoft stack: not just M365, but also their Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI.
These are just some of the attributes we are looking for in someone to join our PMO team, so please do still apply if you don’t tick every single attribute, as we are keen to hear from a diverse range of people with varying different backgrounds and experience.
What you can expect
As a talented individual working at Domino, you can expect a competitive salary and a generous benefits package, including 25 days basic holiday (with the opportunity to buy and sell), a discretionary bonus, life insurance, medical insurance, and access to the Green Car Scheme – to name a few!
We recognise the value of flexible homeworking, and we encourage people to work in a way that they feel most effective, collaborating and working with their team to find the right balance. We aim to enable you get the best from us, and for us to get the best from you, whether that’s from your home office or on site.
As a globally leading organisation, we’re large enough to offer career development opportunities, and we proactively recognise and reward success and innovation. Our culture embodies our core values: Collaboration, Listening, Expertise, Ambition and Responsibility. We think Domino is a great place to work, and if you join us, you’ll find yourself part of organisation which really cares about their people, as well as offering challenging and rewarding careers.
Positions may be at an advanced stage of the recruitment process and can close at any time.