Colt provides network, voice and data centre services to thousands of businesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering their business goals instead of the underlying infrastructure.Role title:Creative Project Manager: CEO projectsContract:6 months secondmentFunction:CEO OfficeReports to:Deputy Chief of StaffLocation:VariousThe CEO's Office:Small, but perfectly formed, the CEO's office is responsible for ensuring that the Chief Executive can deliver. Whether through providing counsel, managing day to day workload, providing research and background information, dealing with problems or driving projects that sit outside normal functional boundaries, this is a team that does whatever it takes, wherever it's needed to help the CEO drive the business where she believes it can go.Role purpose:In this role, you will be responsible for supporting the creation and drive of specific projects that further the CEO's agenda. You will work with virtual teams organization-wide to scope, agree and drive activities that move the business forwards across multiple dimensions. This will be in areas as diverse as operational processes, management practices, measurement, culture and much more. This is a job for a creative person experienced in project management, passionate about people, with a proactive approach to problem solving, who enjoys variety, gets stuff done alongside the integrity and courage to develop and implement new ideas to challenge the status quo.Key accountabilities:Understanding the CEO agenda and contributing to build proposals/business cases for specific projects and programmes that drive this agenda forwards.Building coalitions and virtual teams to operationalize specific projects and programmes.Acting as either business sponsor or project owner for specific projects and programmes and undertaking the core responsibilities inherent in taking on these roles.Managing change effectively by understanding various methodologies and implementing techniques from these to most effectively achieve goals.Helping to develop and implement organization-wide methodologies to manage change and continuous improvement.Building communications strategies and acting as an evangelist.Creating momentum and acceptance of change.Providing support on projects, programmes and activities around the business that need additional momentum.The right person will:Learn like it's a hobby, voraciously mopping up new ways of doing things, market trends and industry data and incorporating everything into insight and action.Be tenacious, like a Colt Terminator, absolutely never stopping until the job is done.Know how things work around here so they can get things done but will not be constrained by how things work around here.Love variety and have an appetite for change; no two days are going to be the same.Seize ownership and take the lead; 'It's not in my job description' is not in our vocabulary.Be a great collaborator, knowing when to push, when to ease off, when input must be taken and when action is needed; they will be a networker, a mover and a shaker.Create culture through their words but more importantly through their attitudes, actions and presence.Relationships and key contacts:The role holder will need to effectively engage and communicate with senior stakeholders including EELT members. The role holder will network extensively and establish truthful and lasting relationships, understanding how motivations and values influence behaviors and understanding other people's point of view.Skills and experience:Manage projects: Pilot, support and manage complex projects. Anticipate long term risks, means and needs.
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