Senior Project Manager - Remote at GVI

About the role

• Work collaboratively with Marketing Operations Manager to set up the necessary processes to execute the required product changes.
• Oversee and coordinate the running of these processes.
• Adjust processes where necessary based on retrospectives on product change projects. Project Manager to facilitate these. 
• Run the associated product change projects. 
• Information and data architecture and management 
• Report on status of projects to senior management stakeholders and work collaboratively with these senior management stakeholders on product change projects. 
• Key Goals: Effective cross-departmental product change management. Information architecture and management. Up to date and accurate product information.  Documented processes, increased efficiency, business wide collaboration and alignment, effective communication and risk mitigation. 
• This role will work across three brands within the GVI Group (GVI, Bushwise and Impact Academy). 
• If you’re hungry for work with a real purpose, you’re eager to collaborate and you’re fun and focused, we’d love to meet you.

Role and responsibilities:

• Establish and document processes for product changes across the business  in collaboration with Marketing, Product, Field Operations, Sales and Systems. These could include(but not limited to):
• New Program/Product Creation 
• Hub Changes/Moves(from an operational and comms perspective. Not logistical, on the ground hub move project management)
• Create timelines for product changes and be responsible for managing these timelines effectively to ensure timeous delivery of the required outputs. 
• Be responsible for the communication, coordination and prioritisation for large scale product changes across the organisation. 
• Run product change projects by initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and closing these according to the established processes. 
• Facilitate retrospectives for these product change projects and adjust processes accordingly. 
• Report on status of projects to senior management team. 
• Collaborate on product change projects with the senior management team where applicable. 
• Create effective data and information management systems. 
• Ensure that these systems are kept up to date so that product information imperative to the success of the business is accurate and available at all times.

About you

• If you are ambitious, purpose-driven, and you have a great sense of humour,  we want to meet you. As an organisation, we know that welcoming a broad range of people with unique identities makes us a more powerful workforce and we are committed to evolving our diversity, equity and inclusion practice.

Personal attributes:

• You are process-orientated with acute attention to detail.
• You thrive innovating and optimising processes 
• You are an effective communicator. 
• You can engage and communicate with all stakeholders.
• You embrace change, understand it, adapt to it and build processes and project plans with the inevitability of change in mind. 
• You have a solid commercial understanding. 
• You are comfortable and confident communicating and working collaboratively with senior management where required
• You have experience in managing large scale change projects on a business operations level(advantageous) or on a project level(required)
• You are proactive ,
• You have the ability to take large amounts of information  and to distil it to ensure that the necessary stakeholders receive the relevant information. 
• You are also someone who is positive, calm, flexible, solutions-driven, innovative.

Professional skills and experience:

• A relevant tertiary qualification
• 6+ years of project management  experience with a proven track record in project management at a business operations level. 
• Experience working within a large(10+) team
• Excellent leadership, problem solving and collaboration  skills
• Evidence of managing complex cross functional teams involving numerous stakeholders
• Advantageous
• PMI Accredited Project Management certifications