Projects & Risk Manager

Responsibilities:
As Development Manager you have a number of responsibilities, but the primary one is to get a stores looking good and equipment working and ensure new store upgrades are inline.
With particular focus on store upgrades.
Equipment and repairs 7 maintenance.
New store development
Lease agreements & negotiations.
P.O administration.
Costing and Budgeting of meetings
Building Plan reading & development.
Project Scope
As Development Manager you need to know how to scope out a project. complete with Deliverables, Time Lines, Budget etc.. Even if you only deal with internal projects, without a formal document system, you should get in the habit of putting together a Project Scope Document for every project. Should be a good negotiator for both providers as well as team & internal stakeholders. Updated reporting on projects.

Managing Relationships
Remember, you are the ''''man in the middle'''' and any failures are going to belong to you, even if the cause is something beyond your control. You need to keep good and open relationships with the people involved. Make sure they ''''in the Loop'''' and get regular status updates and have good visibility on what your team is doing.
Making sure that management knows what you are working on and can see your progress is critical to keeping them happy. Communication and visibility are key getting this to work
If the stakeholders understand the challenges you and your team are experiencing then they are less likely have unreal expectation. I say less likely, but not never. Some management will never understand why things don’t just ''''work''''.

Health, Safety and Risk:
-Ensure all the health and safety measures in the stores are met.
- oversee the health and safety committees in the store
- risk and compliance coordinator to report to you – this individual will assist with putting the health and safety measures in place at the store, with your guidance.

Project Planning
As the Development Manager your job is to get everything done as soon as possible, the Project Manager’s job is to say what can be done and when. It is balancing these two views that you have to be aware of is make sure that your project plan is a living document, continuously updated and keep tracking progress.
Delegation is good, but you have to follow up and make sure things get done. Great ideas often fail in execution because no one checks to see if things get done properly. I have taken over projects that had all the right pieces in place, but the execution was poorly done and things were falling apart.
Finally, you need to report the project status to various stake holders and these reports need to be based on some firm metrics. So have some way of measuring progress and summarizing it in a way that is meaningful to the people you are reporting to. Depending on your organization these reports could be daily, weekly or on an as needed bases. make sure your reports are clear, precise and easy to read
 
Development Manager you are NOT a tech guru but will need to understand excel and some computer basics.You do need to know enough about the tools your team is using to know if they are using them efficiently team.
This is the part of the job that everyone hates, but it is part of the job and some of your most difficult decisions are going to be here. Budgets, hiring and firing people, competing for resources and space, writing reports, accounting etc. are all stuff you did not learn in school but hopefully picked up along the way. The most important thing here is to Know What You Don’t Know! I have seen so many good managers get lost here and you can get your company and yourself into a lot of legal problems by going on what you think you know. If you have the slightest doubt about what you are doing, do some research, seek help, and find someone how has the knowledge. I can’t emphasize this enough, a mistake here could result in a lawsuit against your company, with you to blame.
stressful
the "man in the middle'''', being pulled in different directions by management, customers, developers etc..
If you are doing your job well nobody notices: things work fluently, the work gets done without drama and everyone gets what they want.
If things go wrong, no matter what the cause, then it is your fault.
managing expectations and making sure everyone understands your role.
Strong communication skills
Continuous improvement of controls
Must be able to work independently and self-managed and to work in a team
Will be working with managers closely at store level and reporting back to exec team
 
3-5 years’ experience
Relevant qualifications