Project Manager - People Technology

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Company Description

McDonald's is the largest family restaurant in the world, serving approximately 69 million customers across 36,000 restaurants a day: in more than 100 countries. The UK & Ireland market is one of the most successful entities across the wider business, serving on average 4 million people a day. It has operated in UK since 1974 and the business is growing continuously with more than 1,400 restaurants and over 154,000 employees.

McDonald's UK & Ireland has a proven track record of investing in the development of its employees and offering flexibility as part of its dedication to being a modern and progressive company. Every year, it invests over £40 million in developing people, giving every one of its employees the opportunity to take part in structured training.

McDonald's buys ingredients from over 17,500 British and Irish farmers and spends over £1.1billion annually on its food and packaging requirements. McDonald's is committed to supporting British and Irish farmers to ensure it can continue to source many of its ingredients from the UK and Ireland.

McDonald's is a market leader in its field, striving for the highest standard of quality, speed and restaurant experience. Re-generation of our restaurant infrastructure, covering digital ordering, re-imaging and dual-point service make working at McDonald's more exciting than ever!

We are dedicated to using our scale for good: good for people, our industry and the planet. From bold recycling initiatives and sustainable sourcing efforts to our partnership with Ronald McDonald House Charities, we see every day as a chance to have a genuine impact on our customers, our people and our partners.

We're a people business just as much as we are a restaurant business. We strive to be the most inclusive brand in the world by building diverse teams who create delicious, feel-good moments that are easy for everyone to enjoy. Joining McDonald's means thinking big every day and preparing for a career that can have impact around the world.

Company Vision and Culture...

Our Global vision is to build a better McDonald's and, in the UK, and Ireland we are working hard to be the UK & Irelands best-loved restaurant company.

McDonald's is defined by its culture. Our culture shapes and informs everything we think and everything we do. Our culture influences the way we interact with each other, and how we interact with customers, franchisees and suppliers. Our culture motivates and inspires us to attract and retain great talent, creating positive, energising, exceptional working environment for us all.

Our values drive our culture and shape our beliefs, our priorities and our actions. They influence the decisions we make, how we treat one another and how we show up as a brand to the world.

Serve: We put our customers and our people first

Inclusion: We open our doors to everyone

Integrity: We do the right thing

Community: We are good neighbours

Family: We get better together

Job Description

The Opportunity

You will play a key role in supporting our people technology team in the delivery of new applications and major upgrade projects across the UK and Ireland.

You will be instrumental in helping deliver our priorities in the people technology part of our Information technology department from conception through to completion and support in delivery of People technology roadmap items.

What will my accountabilities be?

• Project Management Services to deliver end-to-end (approved projects)
• Project Initiation phase - Identify the scope, high-level timelines, forecast the budget for delivery, run-costs and benefits and resource requirements
• Project planning phase - Identify task level plan and ensure commitments from required resources, engagement with relevant teams, complete requirements and design and prepare all artefacts to commence development and testing.
• Project build and testing phase - Complete all artefacts in line with governance process and ensure viable product ready for deployment to end-users.
• Delivery of the project end to end
• Working with McDonald's resource and chosen third parties
• Managing the project RAID log
• Adhering to change control process as and when required
• Managing the project budget
• Ensuring tasks assigned to project resource is completed
• Ensuring all deliverables adhere to McDonald's governance process

What Team will I be a part?

You will be part of the People Technology team within IT/HR supporting the People Technology team. The team includes technical and functional specialists that are passionate about ensuring that features are developed and delivered with high quality and meet market's needs and expectations. You will work closely with the team delivering project management services for approved projects.

Who are my customers?

• Business project sponsors & business partners
• IT Department Senior Leadership Team, Head of Test, Architecture, PMO and Business Analysis, Service and Support
• The IT project delivery team made up of Project Managers, Portfolio Managers, Product Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, Test team
• External - Suppliers and Vendors of Specialist project related services

Qualifications

What background do I need to have?

• Ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy; self-starter
• Strong communication skills - written, verbal and excellent presentation skills
• Computer Literate- Sophisticated Excel & PowerPoint. Project Management software experience is desirable
• Comfort and experience working in a fast paced and changing working environment
• Experience and an ability to think outside of the box to tackle problems • Facilitate others adapt in complicated circumstances or during periods of change
• Work with energy and passion and encourage the same in others • Excellent interpersonal skills, curious mind set, confident, independent and logical problem solver
• Capable of analysing and interpreting information and data
• Experience in HR/Payroll/People Technology is desired

Additional Information

At McDonald's we are People from all Walks of Life...

People are at the heart of everything we do, and they make the McDonald's experience. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture that means people can be their best authentic self in our restaurants and offices, which helps us to better serve our customers. We have a strong heritage of diversity and representation within our communities, which we are proud of. The diversity of our people, customers, Franchisees and suppliers gives us strength.

We do not tolerate inequality, injustice or discrimination of any kind. These are hugely important issues and a brand with our reach and relevance means we have a very meaningful role to play.

We also recognise our responsibility as a large employer to continue being active in our communities, helping to develop skills and drive aspirations that will help people to be more aware of the world of work and more successful within it, whether with McDonald's or elsewhere.

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