Contract - Project Manager (Connected Services)

At Honda we embrace inclusion in our various policies, so whilst our contracts state that the hours are as required to fulfil the role with a minimum of 35 hours per week, we offer flexibility for when you work. The regular office hours are 08:00 – 16:00 Monday to Thursday with a half hour lunch break & 08:00 – 13:00 on a Friday. However, we offer flexibility of when you work with our daily flex-time start of between 07:00 and 11:00 providing that there is no business requirement.

Whilst there is no contractual right to work from home, the flexibility we offer is that you can request to work from home for a maximum of 50% of the working days in any one month, again providing there is no business requirement to attend the office.

Role:

Working within HME ISD Solution Delivery department, this Project Manager role will be responsible for managing day-to-day project activities to ensure successful delivery of IT projects. The role will involve management of projects relating to Connected Services that support business transformation in collaboration with development teams in Honda Japan and other partners. The role will also be required to participate in some strategic planning activities and support some operational activities during hyper care and post Go-Live phases of projects.

Main Responsibilities:

• Works closely with the assigned user community (and through business technologists) to determine how technology can be used to address challenges or create opportunities, and then translates these needs into system requirements and design specifications.
• Plans, directs and coordinates activities for the development, delivery and implementation of technology or business projects for a given business unit.
• Lead strategic planning and execution for regional systems, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and driving operational excellence.
• Act as the primary liaison with global stakeholders to address issues, resolve open items, and deliver key initiatives, fostering collaboration and ensuring seamless integration across regions.
• Ensures project goals or objectives are achieved within prescribed time frames and funding parameters by managing external teams who implement the projects.
• Provide leadership and motivation to project team members throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Responsible for managing project stakeholders, scope, cost, schedule, procurement, risk, communication and quality.
• Alignment with key R&D functions to ensure implementation and testing for new connected products & digital services.
• Stakeholder mapping and management across the impacted business organizations and other involved internal / external parties within the scope of the project.
• Keep close, direct contact with key end-user representatives to ensure technologies are providing valuable information-sharing capabilities to customers.
• Work closely with end users, business technologists and others to understand and prioritise business goals and information needs.

Qualifications, skills, and experience:

Required

• Experience of Agile and Waterfall project delivery with PMI Certification preferred.
• Experience of managing complex projects including multiple technologies with multiple stakeholders / partners across multiple geographic locations.
• Solid project management skills with ability to multitask and manage multiple small to large projects in a cross-functional environment.
• Extensive experience of Project Management and managing transformation agenda including experience of managing teams and influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills at all management levels including demonstrated ability to lead a team and motivate members to achieve successful outcomes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with expertise in setting and managing customer expectations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate staff and to apply skills and techniques to solve dynamic problems.
• Demonstrated ability to identify critical path of projects using profound MS Project knowledge and act accordingly to mitigate any impact on it.
• Demonstrated experience to track project performance by analysing KPI’s related to time and budget using Earned Value Management technique or using burn down charts.
• Solid understanding of the software development process, including requirement gathering, analysis/design, development tools/technologies, release/version control, contemporary testing methodologies and deployment management.
• Ability to analyse, understand and effectively communicate between business requirements and technical design and implementation.
• Ability to communicate needs and schedules to IT and business, as well as ensure that plans are in place and standards are adhered to.
• Ability to present and explain technical information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others and gains understanding.
• Demonstrate strong customer focus and ability to manage business expectations.
• Ability to travel within Europe region to meet different stakeholders.
• Experience on project management software tools to effectively manage, monitor and control project activities.
• Self-motivated and confident to work independently without supervision and in autonomy.
• Experienced in facilitation, negotiating and problem solving.
• Solid understanding of current cloud technologies, IoT platforms and mobile app solutions.
• Technical proficiency in hardware and systems software, as well as experience implementing packages and working with vendors.
• Good ability for strategic planning of digital consumer solutions for IoT products and services.
• Experience of operational support for B2B & B2C digital solutions.
• Experience in the Automotive sector.

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