Project Manager

Newcastle - Hybrid working from home and our office at One Strawberry Lane

Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hpw)

Salary circa £48, 000 per annum (negotiable on experience) plus great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Home, a place where you belong

This is your chance to make a big impact, leading our strategic change initiatives that support the delivery of our organisational priorities at Home Group. As Project Manager in our Programme Management team, you'll use your expertise in both Waterfall and Agile Scrum methodologies to deliver change projects, ensuring full stakeholder engagement.

It's all about building strong relationships, managing expectations, and playing a key role in supporting change that benefits our customers. Amazing we know!

Typical day as Project Manager

• Leading business change across multiple workstreams using our Project@Home framework. Exciting projects we are currently supporting include implementation of a salesforce CRM, enhancing the future of our Repairs and Maintenance services and delivery and a new Wide Area Network (WAN) service provider.

• Manage projects using both waterfall and agile SCRUM methods, ensuring timely and successful delivery. You’ll be collaborating with project sponsors and stakeholders to understand project scope and key deliverables, maintaining these important relationships whilst ensuring expectations are met.

• Utilise Smartsheet for planning, tracking, automating, and real-time reporting on project progress.

• Ensuring agile delivery in our Programme Management team, defining processes and managing products effectively.

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Place to Work in the UK employers!

You have

• A PRINCE 2 or APM PMQ qualification with strong experience in applying agile and waterfall methodologies to enable project delivery.

• Experience in project planning and resource management, using project controls and risk management. You’ll be an expert in IT change management that is focused on delivering customer benefits.

• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and persuasion skills to achieve win-win outcomes. You’ll be a great influencer and able to think outside of the box on how things can be done more efficiently.

• Able to build and maintain important stakeholder relationships, quickly gaining the confidence of colleagues and senior leaders.

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we cannot offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review

Our team

Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you! Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. You’ll join our team, who come from different walks of life and are here to support you as you make yourself at Home!

Job details

• Flexible working hours, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. If you need to nip out to walk the dog or do the school run, we’re ok with that too!

• This is a hybrid role, and you’ll spend a couple of days a week at our office at One Strawberry Lane, Newcastle Upon Tyne and the rest working at home.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave (including bank hols and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too!

• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.

• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.

• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary

• Colleagues really matter to us, that’s why we’re the 10^th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.

• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!

• Explore our benefits in detail on our website.

Find out more

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Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process by making reasonable adjustments at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk