Project Manager

Project Manager

Salary: Competitive

Who We Are

Founded and continuously led by inventor and entrepreneur Tony Aquila, Solera is a global leader in digital technologies that connect and secure life's most important assets: our cars, homes and identities. Since its inception in 2005 as a garage-based startup, Solera has grown aggressively with over 50 acquisitions across its platforms The company's current product solutions include Audatex, Autodata, AutoPoint, CAP/HPI, Colimbra, Digidentity, Enservio, Explore Data, Hollander, Identifix, Inpart, LYNX and TitleTec, as well as the company's flagship Digital Garage application. Today, Solera processes over 300 million transactions annually for approximately 235,000 partners and customers in over 80 countries. Unified by a strong culture that values uncommon entrepreneurial thinking and continuous "do-it-different" innovation, Solera's global workforce of 6,700+ associates come from diverse forward-thinking industries that include automotive technology, artificial intelligence, software development, data sciences, cybersecurity, cognitive design, and digital identity protection.

The Solera Way

Solera’s uncommon culture is based on three simple principles: Think 80/20 (Focus), Act 30/30 (Efficiency), and Live 90/10 (Accountability). We define our mindset using Our 3H’s: Humility, a Hunger to succeed, and a desire to Hunt for opportunities to win. We train our team to engage with each other modulating between their intellect (IQ) and emotional intelligence (EQ) using our 3Fs: Facts, Finesse, and Force. Solera has become a global technology leader that is constantly growing in the double digits. The principles, drills, and values associated with the Solera Way have been fundamental to Solera’s success and our ability to grow, continuously change, and innovate.

Our Space

• Location-wise, we are based in Theale, 1 station away from Central Reading
• Our office setting is open plan and we work collaboratively as a team.
• Smart casual is our dress code and we are open to flexible start and end times and some remote working (with agreement from your manager).
• We offer weekly fruit to keep the team healthy!
• We also like to celebrate company success, funding legendary summer and winter parties.
• There are frequent opportunities internally to learn and grow into other fields / disciplines. Career progression is important to us.

Are You Uncommon?

We are seeking a Project Manager to track status of programme deliverables and milestones; supporting the adoption of the project lifecycle and deliverables; programme level risk and issue coordination; monitoring the status of projects transitioning into normal service; coordination of the regular project and programme level reporting cycles; co-ordination of project Governance arrangements, Post Project Reviews, Programme level workshops.

Additional responsibilities include defining and updating the project management processes, standards and governance, assisting Project Managers on large projects, contributing to Quality Reviews, and co-ordinating activities in support of quality objectives.  

At times the Project Manager may be asked to provide project support, when this is the case this will include, amongst other things, ensuring project plans and project documentation are complete and up-to-date, provide regular project status updates, help acquire the necessary resources and skills, and contribute to the delivery of business systems to meet identified business requirements.

What You’ll Be Doing

At Solera, we believe in providing clarity and focus to what are volunteers are responsible for – their mission. The 80’s, as we call them at Solera, are the employee’s priorities associated with their role or mission. The mission 80’s for this role, are:

Governance & Control

Implement governance standards across the portfolio, including tracking, monitoring and updating the status of programme deliverables

Manage the programme level risks and issues register

Carry out assurance review processes as required

Planning, Reporting & Control

Work to develop the Project Standards guide, seeking contributions from QA Team, Development Team and Service Implementation to ensure that the Standards meet best practice

Organise workshops to identify areas of improvement for projects, documenting recommendations and presenting them to the Director of Investment Management

Continue to evolve the processes and templates throughout the project lifecycle

Implement project standards across all projects in the portfolio

Update and administer the programme plan as required using reports from Project Managers and the outcomes of project and board level meetings and workshops

Project Management

Manage the portfolio-level benefits register, ensuring that all benefits are planned, monitored and benefits realisation is tracked

Support implementation of the quality strategy, including any processes and templates, across all projects

Implement the change control process across all projects and portfolios.   

Project Manager Responsibilities when providing project support include:

Pre-Project

Supporting the definition of small/medium project Business Cases (scope, goals, deliverables, costs, timescales, plans, dependencies, resource requirements and milestones)

Ensuring pre-scope project plan is communicated to all project stakeholders together with their individual responsibilities.

Project Management

Providing effective management support to project teams on small to medium sized projects, or assisting Project Managers on streams of other large projects

Co-ordination of publication, review and sign-off of major Project Management deliverables

Ensuring project plans are created and maintained, deliverables tracked against time and cost, and resource utilisation is monitored

Monitoring and reporting on progress of the project to the SMT and all stakeholders

Co-ordinating quality activities to meet quality objectives. Managing project risks, issues and change control, communicating the impact to the project

Monitoring projects against time, budget and quality standards.

Post-Project

Identifying the location of support to resolve technical issues, effecting the transition into support, and formally closing off the project

Conducting or contributing to post implementation reviews and identifying any lessons learned Feeding carry-forward items back into the programme plan.

Qualifications

Are You Qualified?

• Self-motivated and enthusiastic with a proactive approach to work
• Technically competent
• Excellent written and verbal communication (English) 
• Strong communicator at all development levels through to executive level 
• Worked both independently and as part of a team.
• Customer facing and commercially orientated
• Recognise inefficiency and have the drive to recommend / implement improvements
• Excellent organisation and ability to prioritise time
• Passion for technology
• Adaptable and flexible to meet workload demands

• Good Stakeholder management

Experience

• Prince2, MSP or P30 qualifications preferable
• Full software lifecycle and agile process knowledge in both a services and commercial product producing environment
• Demonstrable experience in deploying products to live 
• Strong communicator at all development levels through to executive level 
• A good understanding of modern cloud technologies in the context of engineering practices such as automated provisioning, release etc. 
• Demonstrable Project delivery experience 
• Excellent written and verbal communication

If you would like to be considered for this Project Manager then please click ‘APPLY’ below.