Projects Assistant - Karian and Box (12 month FTC)
at Ipsos Zrt
York, England, United Kingdom -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 25 Oct, 2024 | Not Specified | 25 Jul, 2024 | N/A | Powerpoint,Excel,Presentation Skills | No | No |
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Description:
WHAT WILL I BE DOING?
You will be supporting our PMO and Project Management teams with all aspects of client project delivery and organisational running.
Working in our PMO team, you’ll get to work with teams across the business to ensure the smooth running of our client projects.
This is an interesting and varied role that would provide many opportunities to pursue different aspects of project management and PMO.
Key responsibilities
- Supporting Project Managers to plan our key client projects, ensuring resource requirements are forecasted correctly and visible to team leads
- Proving support to team leads with resource allocation of projects to team members, maintaining accuracy of project management and resourcing software
- Supporting wider PMO team to review capacity across the business and advise team leads on upcoming peaks and challenges, looking ahead at business requirements
- Support project teams to ensure project compliance to data retention and processing policies, maintaining central records and running regular governance checks
- Maintaining our flexible resource pool, managing administration of joiners/leavers, bookings and queries as required
- Maintain business knowledge management tools, updating with best practice as required
- Support with the production of manager insight reports on team utilisation, flexible resource spend and other ad hoc topics as required
- Administrative support on project management and HR tools as required
WHAT DO I NEED TO BRING WITH ME?
We are looking for someone with an interest in Project Management / PMO, who is eager to get stuck in to all aspects of project and programme management.
To be successful in this role you will ideally have the following skills and experience:
- Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
- Excellent accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to plan ahead and foresee challenges and risks, and plan accordingly
- Good knowledge of MS Office suite, in particular Excel and PowerPoint
- Excellent organisation skills, with the ability to prioritize and manage workload
- Experience in a project management/PMO or administrative role beneficial but not essential
WHAT IS IN IT FOR ME?
Ipsos UK offer an attractive basic salary and a rewards package including 25 days annual leave, a pension scheme and a great range of flexible benefits to suit your personal needs. For roles at Research Manager level and above we also offer private healthcare.
In addition to this we have a fantastic Learning & Development offer delivered through a mix of face to face, online or on-demand; you can read more by clicking here .
We realise you may have commitments outside of work and will consider flexible working applications - please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application.
Ipsos is committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We also recognise that this is important for our business success - a more diverse workforce will enable us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients.
Ipsos is one of the world’s largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers, ranking as a #1 full-service research organization for four consecutive years . With over 75 different data-driven solutions, and presence in 90 markets, Ipsos brings together research, implementation, methodological, and subject-matter experts from around the world, combining thematic and technical experts to deliver top-quality research and insights. Simply speaking, we help the biggest companies solve some of their biggest problems, serving more than 5000 clients across the globe by providing research, data, and insights on their target markets. And we’re proud to share we’ve received our Great Place to Work Certification in 2022 & 2023!
Customer Experience at Ipsos is All Things Customer . Our mission is to equip our clients with the insights they need to make better decisions about their customer experience investments. We do this through CX research and advisory, cross-channel analytics (digital and physical), and CX performance measurement across the customer journey. We are firm believers in the Insights to Action loop, and we provide our clients with tangible CX recommendations and ROI sizing (our approach is called ROCXI). The result of our work is better strategic and operational decisions that drive customer loyalty, retention and growth
Responsibilities:
ROLE OVERVIEW
This role will be working in a pivotal central team within Ipsos Karian & Box, providing behind-the-scenes support to a high-performing research consultancy.
Working across departments, this role will work within the PMO team to provide essential insight to business leaders, using operational data to produce regular managerial reporting. It will also support Project Managers to plan effectively and efficiently to enable delivery of large research and internal communication projects on time, to budget and to our high standards for our multinational client base.
This role can be offered on a remote basis or hybrid working to be based in London, York or Manchester!
Key responsibilities
- Supporting Project Managers to plan our key client projects, ensuring resource requirements are forecasted correctly and visible to team leads
- Proving support to team leads with resource allocation of projects to team members, maintaining accuracy of project management and resourcing software
- Supporting wider PMO team to review capacity across the business and advise team leads on upcoming peaks and challenges, looking ahead at business requirements
- Support project teams to ensure project compliance to data retention and processing policies, maintaining central records and running regular governance checks
- Maintaining our flexible resource pool, managing administration of joiners/leavers, bookings and queries as required
- Maintain business knowledge management tools, updating with best practice as required
- Support with the production of manager insight reports on team utilisation, flexible resource spend and other ad hoc topics as required
- Administrative support on project management and HR tools as require
To be successful in this role you will ideally have the following skills and experience:
- Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
- Excellent accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to plan ahead and foresee challenges and risks, and plan accordingly
- Good knowledge of MS Office suite, in particular Excel and PowerPoint
- Excellent organisation skills, with the ability to prioritize and manage workload
- Experience in a project management/PMO or administrative role beneficial but not essentia
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:N/AMax:5.0 year(s)
Information Technology/IT
IT Software - Other
Software Engineering
Graduate
Proficient
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York, United Kingdom