Dyson Farming is a family-owned business, with a vision to benefit future generations through a commitment to commercially viable and environmentally sustainable food production at scale. We strive to be industry leaders in efficient, carbon-neutral, high-technology agriculture, employing highly skilled, pioneering people and supported by research and development in an ever-closer partnership with our sister company, Dyson. We see the future of agriculture as an exciting opportunity to improve the nation’s food security, health, and economic growth.

Requirements

• Partner with stakeholders across the business to effectively identify, manage and deliver a range of IT, Systems and Finance projects on time, in budget and to scope.
• Maintain integrated project plans, highlighting key dependencies.
• Identify appropriate resources required and develop a project or programme plan to achieve the vision/brief
• Report weekly or as required, and create management dashboards, about project progress, risks, challenges, actions, solutions, and results
• Manage project level risks, actively identifying mitigations and escalating where appropriate.
• Identify and communicate the need, obtain sponsorship from senior leaders, develop briefs, scopes and objectives
• Lead senior stakeholders across the Business to converge and agree the right approach to business and technical problems.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across the organisation to ready them for business change, i.e. consideration of impact, communication, training, stakeholder management, business readiness, benefits tracking etc.
• Build robust business cases where expenditure is required and present to appropriate steering committees or decision-makers.
• Manages changes in project scope, costs, resource and timing within the framework of agreed governance and change control process.
• Lead effective project or programme teams to deliver successful business outcomes

Person Specification

• At least 5 years experience of working in a project management role with expertise in systems / IT and or Finance projects.
• Excellent project and change management skills using Prince 2 / APM / APMG / Lean methodologies to execute change.
• In depth knowledge and experience of all stages of the project life cycle including development of business cases and mobilisation of projects
• Proven track record of operating successfully in a complex organisation
• Experience in building relationships with internal and external stakeholders including senior management
• Confident communication skills, with the ability to interact with individuals with technical and non-technical backgrounds

Critical Competencies

• You are capable of taking the organisation on the journey of change, with first class communication and people skills
• You can take complex issues and manage them simply, with the ability to articulate these back to senior level stakeholders
• You are results driven, resilient, love a challenge and have a starter to finisher mentality/ You take accountability for your work, not just focussing on the results but how you execute your work.
• You have highly developed communication skills, both oral and written.
• You consistently role model the values and foster the values in the team.
• You are an effective decision maker, comfortable with change and ambiguity and can act without having the total bigger picture.

Benefits

• 24 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Life assurance;
• Pension scheme;
• Enhanced family friendly policies;
• Charitable Giving via payroll (Give as You Earn);
• Cycle to work scheme;
• Free annual flu jab;
• Free eye test;
• Employee Assistant Programme;
• Access to product discounts;
• Organised social events;
• Free parking.