SL LLP Regional Project Manager - APAC

DHL Supply Chain

RO00151

Responsibilities

Main Accountabilities

• Manage the overall planning, control, status reporting, stability and delivery of large / complex projects (multi area or product) to ensure that project goals and objectives are met within agreed upon time, scope, budget and resource requirements
• Drive the resolution of conflicts and issues
• Challenge scope changes to ensure benefit realisation
• Own the budget of the project and performance against the business case to ensure benefit realisation
• Function as a subject matter expert in area where the project manager has expertise (e.g. automation, specific IT systems, inventory control etc)
• Build strong working relationships and ensure delivery of appropriate communication to all stakeholders
• Obtain feedback from all stakeholders at critical milestones to ensure project efforts meet customer expectations
• Manage project and commercial risks and mitigation plans and ensure these risks are proactively communicated
• Responsible for managing and governing the DePICT project management methodology and risk management process
• Act as a champion within project delivery for deploying project management and risk management standards, policies, training and development
• Conduct health checks and quality management reviews to review performance, identifying points of risk and making recommendations for improvements that lead to risk minimisation and successful project delivery
• Deliver best practice project documentation, completed to quality standards, kept upto date, available throughout the project and maintained in the project database
• Lead the application ACT change management methodology and approach
• Contribute and approve business cases and challenge the benefit realisation
• Review project portfolio performance against the business cases and implement action plans to ensure benefit realisation

Finance & Projects         

• Deploy previous lessons learnt output and feedback to drive continuous improvement
• Promote and support changes to continuously improve project management in alignment with international project management trends

People Management

• Work with project sponsors and stakeholders to forecast project resources and SME's required to support project pipeline management and deliver the business benefits
• Support the development of the project management community and implement the people management strategy to deliver business benefits through: skills assessment, training programmes, processes and toolsets
• Coach and mentor career team members

Requirements

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in logistics (desirable)
• DePICT (or equivalent) project management methodology (essential)                                                               
• ACT change management methodology (desirable)
• DMAIC process improvement methodology (desirable)
• 5+ years experience in project and programme management roles (essential)
• Ability to lead and manage a cross country, multicultural team (essential)
• University degree (desirable)

• Professional project management certification e.g. IPMA Level C (Level B if required), PMI PgMP, Prince 2 Practitioner, Managing Successful Programmes, Management of Portfolios (desirable)