Business Project Manager

We are Centrica! We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising a cleaner, greener future. Working here is #MoreThanACareer - we’re powered by purpose. Together we can make an impact that will truly change tomorrow. Whether you’re developing cutting-edge green tech, helping customers on the front line or simplifying operations behind the scenes.

Your work here isn’t just a job – it’s a mission. We all play a vital role in energising a greener, fairer future.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Project and Process Management team where you will ensure that business projects are analyzed, implemented and managed as efficiently and professionally as possible, support Centrica Energy to its targets to grow the business and sustain a cost-effective operational platform.

In this job position you will manage projects across the business and will, depending on the size of the projects, manage multiple projects simultaneously. You will be expected to utilize your strong communication skills to drive and manage change. If required, you will participate as a project member in a project.

The role

In this role you will manage cross-organizational projects. You will foster strong relationships with stakeholders across the business, spanning multiple geographies, to gather and represent diverse perspectives and to ensure their involvement in the projects while collaborating closely with project managers to seamlessly integrate change management activities into existing project plans.

Key accountabilities:

• Provide leadership, direction and motivation to the project team.

• Ensure that projects are driven efficiently with respect to agreed time, scope and cost.

• Describe project business cases, capture data and define success metrics/KPIs to measure the effectiveness of change initiatives and ensure management approval.

• Establish project governance and provide the project steerco with the information needed for them to guide the project and coaching managers on all levels in Project Management governance

• Prepare reports for upper management as needed regarding status of project.

• Identify and involve the right resources in the project.

• Ensuring that the needed documentation is made and maintained during the project and deliver a well-documented handover of improvement to operations.

• Evaluate project process and lessons learned.

The successful candidate will work directly with the internal customer to ensure deliverables fall within the applicable scope of the project/task. You will coordinate with other departments to ensure all aspects of each project are compatible.

Sparring with rest of the COO team on process improvement points and key findings to drive the business toward utilizing agile methodologies is a big part of this role to proactively identify problems to be solved in the company front to back, and personally engage in the implementation of solutions for these.

About You

We are looking for a team member who has excellent organizational skills including attention to details and multi-tasking skills. It is important to be self-motivating, have great problem-solving skills and be willing to take on responsibility to drive change management.

The ideal candidate has:

• Preferably a Master’s degree

• Significant commercial project management experience in a complex, dynamic and highly technical environment

• Project Management skills combined with a large “toolbox” (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2 etc.) to manage various challenges as they emerge.

• A good understanding of what it takes to drive and implement projects and change in a large organization.

• It would be an advantage but not a requirement to have a track record of implementation of cross-functional projects in a complex organization

About Centrica Energy

We’re a profitable, agile company that understands the necessity of investment to achieve improvement. If you’ve got the willingness, ambitions, and right attitude we offer a work environment that will help you grow on a professional as well as personal level. You’ll get first-hand experience within the energy sector and within an international trading business with a proven track record and ambitious growth plan. The team consists of different personalities and skillsets, but the fundamental principle is excelling together. We offer flexible working hours and locations alongside a positive working environment characterized by expertise, responsibility, and innovation alongside great opportunities to make your mark and influence decisions.

Energy markets are increasingly dominated by an ambitious decarbonization agenda, and so are we. Leveraging our in-house talent and specialists, extensive market expertise, technical capabilities, and the strong balance sheet of Centrica plc, we’re focused on delivering on the net-zero agenda as a vital enabler of our future growth. Our ambition is to become Europe’s No. 1 renewable energy trader and a globally important player, and we’re delivering on an ambitious corporate- and commercial strategy to make those ambitions a reality. As one of Europe's largest energy trading companies, we offer an opportunity to work directly with paving the way for a cost-efficient and sustainable transition to zero-carbon energy, where you will play a key role and make a real impact on the future energy system in Europe. Our work culture is flexible, entrepreneurial, and collaborative, marked by a high pace and equally high ambitions, but also emphasizing social engagement and having fun.

We engage our employees in Guilds driving both technical innovation, process improvements and social activities. Our Skills Guild drives learning activities such as Hackathons, Study Groups and Brown Bag Sessions, and our Social and Work Life Guild drives frequent social events such as Department Events, Friday Bars, etc. We also have an active Staff Association that arranges a broad variety of activities – ranging from Foosball Tournaments to LAN Parties, bringing in people from the entirety of CE.

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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.

Location: DK - Aalborg