Bespoke Project Manager

Assignment Type: Temporary, ongoing basis where you will be engaged via Hays

Location: Chichester

Working Environment: office based on site

Pay type: Competitive hourly pay rate

Our client

The World’s pre-eminent super-luxury automotive brand based in Goodwood, near Chichester, West Sussex, which comprises its global headquarters and Global Centre of Luxury Manufacturing Excellence.

Job Description

As Bespoke Project Manager, you will be part of the dynamic and collaborative in our Bespoke Team. The team works closely with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver exceptional customer experiences and strengthen the brand's prestigious luxury positioning.

What awaits you?

Project manage the development of the bespoke product portfolio ensuring that each feature request is accurately described without ambiguity and that updates are received on time from process partners (in line with agreed process timelines).

Lead the process partners from Design, Engineering (incl. safety and homologation), Purchasing, Manufacturing, Finance and Ownership Services to ensure that features can be delivered to customers in line with our time commitment, to Rolls-Royce quality standards.

Manage the feature delivery to agreed time, cost and quality.

Organise and chair multiple project steering meetings each week; Concept; Evaluation & Operations.

Lead bespoke partners to progress feature requests through the bespoke process and deliver the products to the sales and marketing channels.

Progress features through key milestones and be responsible for milestone adherence against KPIs for all process partners as defined by the official process.

Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables.

Define project tasks and resource requirements together with the Bespoke matrix teams.

Manage project budgets and project resource allocation.

Plan and schedule project timelines and track project deliverables using appropriate monitoring tools.

Provide regular project status reports / presentations to the company steering circles, department General Managers, their function steering managers and any/all stakeholders for project progress.

Highlight risks or derailments and present solutions to bring projects back on track with corrective actions.

Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs.

Own the process for bespoke feature development and delivery (idea to offer) for pro-active as well as customer requests.

Develop clear and aligned processes that are bought into by all parties that allow structured delivery of product.

Continually review, edit and refine the process steps for optimization.

Capacity planning to ensure a continuous but stable workload for process partners which makes full use of the capacity available without overloading the system.

What should you bring along?

Excellent project management skills with extensive technical knowledge.

Business-wide knowledge and experience, with sound appreciation of core business processes.

Automotive understanding gained either in a manufacturing or engineering environment.

Proven project management skills and experience in running cross-functional teams.

Excellent analytical and financial skills.

Strong interpersonal, communication (verbal and written), presentation and influencing skills.

Ability to network and build relationships within the Bespoke organization.

Ability to effectively work in a cross-functional matrix organization.

Innovative, can-do attitude, able to motivate and inspire others at all levels of the organization to deliver the required features to demanding timelines.

Strong initiative, problem solving and leadership skills.

Ability to balance the needs of the customer with the needs of the business.

Benefits:

Competitive hourly rate along with an annual performance related bonus

Access to a subsidised restaurant

Hays Go1 training platform which offers a library of over 70,000 courses

Access to Ben – Offers support across a wide range of topics such as mental health well-being, financial or legal matters

Local retail and restaurant discounts

35 days annual leave (Including bank holidays)

What next?

If you are interested in this role, click ‘apply now’ to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.