About this role
• Manages and leads a team of Project and Program Managers responsible for Customer Service Delivery activities including planning standards reviews and best practices
• Provides management and leadership across the team to ensure the team’s growth is in alignment with business needs
• Sets goals for immediate team members
• Ensures planning standards reviewed and improved at regular intervals
• Anticipates areas for continuous improvement and lessons learned and leads the team on closing gaps
• Responsible for strategy of department and growth plans
• Where required will advise the team on stakeholder management
• Seeks opportunities to build effective stakeholder relationships on behalf of the team
• Encourages feedback and develops stakeholder knowledge of function and manages expectations
• Responsible for a team who has multiple and broad communication responsibilities
• Challenges the team and others on finding a balance between effective communications whilst pragmatic with volume, frequency and/or content
• Is the highest level escalation point within the team for complex issues
• Challenges the team to ensure lateral thinking and information is fully analyzed to achieve resolution
• Leads the team responsible for delivery of companywide strategic programs
• Ensures KPI’s are in place for the team which are appropriate for the needs of the function and its stakeholders
• Where necessary may refer and escalate outside of the immediate team
• Accountable for resource planning (people, finances etc.) across the team
• Effectively communicates project management methodology and its application to customer solutions