Project Manager
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Overview of the role
As the Project Manager, you will oversee the scoping, planning, design, and execution of projects within the Healthcare Service distribution centre. Your role will ensure that projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards, all in alignment with the business strategy.
The role is hybrid working with 3 days in the office, and 2 days working from home.
Due to the urgent nature of this project, we are looking for a candidate who can start immediately or within a short timeframe
We are open to offering flexible working days, with a minimum of 3 days per week. The specific hours and days will be discussed during the interview stage to ensure a good fit for both yourself and Bestway Healthcare.
Main Responsibility
• Develop and maintain project plans and budgets to meet stakeholder requirements and ensure that specific deadlines and milestones are agreed and communicated.
• Conduct risk assessments and develop mitigation plans to address potential obstacles.
• Manage and monitor the progress of projects with a budget against the business strategy and performance measures - time, cost, benefit delivery and quality requirements.
• Identify and agree the strategic requirements of all key stakeholders to establish overall project scope, including deliverables, outcomes, change requirements and desired business benefits.
• Develop, lead and coach cross functional project teams to drive good project and change management disciplines, in order to improve change execution throughout the business.
• Develop and maintain project plans and budgets to meet stakeholder requirements and ensure that specific deadlines and milestones are agreed and communicated.
• Identify and proactively manage project risks, issues and dependencies, ensuring that they have been recorded adequately.
• Manage change control within the project using the appropriate tools
• Provide appropriate project control and monitoring to ensure projects are delivered to agreed time, cost, benefit delivery and quality requirements.
• Lead effective stakeholder management, reporting and governance processes, ensuring key stakeholders are appropriately engaged and that all projects have the right level of oversight and decision making.
• Responsible for maximising efficiency and value for money through robust cost challenging and management, via budget planning forecasting and resource utilisation.
Problem solving & Change:
• Requires matrix management of a team to ensuring successful delivery in role
• Determines timeframe and resource requirements to achieve delivery objectives in time and budget
• Flexibility to adapt to conflicting stakeholder requirements
• Impacting change on a Weekly and monthly timescale, with regular review throughout
• Enjoys the detail of complex business planning
• Is comfortable with ambiguity and conflicting priorities
Key knowledge and skills required for the role:
• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, etc.) and proficiency in project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Trello, Asana). Proven experience in managing projects in a warehouse, distribution, or logistics environment. Proven experience of building internal and external professional relationships
• Able to communicate, present and influence internal and external stakeholders to deliver targets.
• Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, Project)
The Ideal Candidate
Well are proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we'll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you.
Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.
Package Description
- Competitive package
- Excellent training & development opportunities
- Paid Holidays
- Workplace pension scheme
- Staff Discount
- Travel Loans and more.....
About the Company
For over 70 years, we've been looking after the health and wellbeing of communities across the UK. Well Pharmacy (part of Bestway Healthcare) is the second largest pharmacy chain in the UK with c.760 pharmacies and a team of around 7,000 colleagues based across our Community Pharmacies, Online Pharmacy, Healthcare Services Centre, Community Drivers, Bestway Medhub & Wardles team and our Support Centre team.
Our mission is to be here for the wellbeing of our patients and customers, to provide the best community pharmacy experience in the UK for everyone, for our patients, our customers, our people, and our NHS.
The pharmacy of the future will look very different from the one we know today. It will play a huge role in transforming primary healthcare and we will play a central role in bringing it to life.
We will use our clinical expertise and technological ambition to take advantage of the potential this future has to offer us. Making medicines, advice, services and care available in the places and spaces that people need and want it most.
We want to be a great business. To be recognised as delivering a community pharmacy experience that is the best there is. To do this we want our teams to feel proud about the positive impact they make, feel valued as part of a close-knit and expert community, and feel confident in their role in a business that is stable, innovative, and caring.
'Together we make a difference'