Project Manager Supply Chain Management

Job Description

Job Title: Project Manager- Business Operations Execution

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Duration: 6 months

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Location: London / Leeds

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Description:

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PURPOSE

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The Project Manager will lead on critical delivery projects within the Business Operations Portfolio. They will lead across a complex multi-function, multi-vendor, global environment. The Project manager will ensure delivery, balancing time, cost and quality while maintaining excellent stakeholder management.

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The Project Manager will be expected to work across projects within Business Operations encompassing the areas of Product Development, Pricing, Planning & Merchandising, Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Corporate Affairs and Sustainability.

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RESPONSIBILITIES

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• Leading projects end-to-end, from inception and vision creation through to acceptance into service and support.

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• Manage project financials including initial business case, estimates, budgets and forecasts across Opex and Capex.

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• Proactivity manage a complex project stakeholder environment up to executive level across multiple internal functions and locations.

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• Lead and manage internal resource across a matrix organization and across a supplier landscape globally.

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• Define and manage a clear communication strategy across project team up to executive levels.

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• Create and maintain accurate programme-wide RAID log and ensure that the relevant parties are involved in addressing each factor.

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• Directly manage experienced workstream leads within the project of work.

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• Establish an approach for ensuring the realisation of benefits and the measurement of those benefits against the business case across the entire programme.

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• Close projects and conduct lessons learned sessions to capture and document the knowledge and ensure its availability to other programme and project managers.

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MEASURES OF SUCCESS

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• Delivery of projects on time, within budget, and within scope.

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• Stakeholder satisfaction with level of engagement throughout the project.

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• Positive results from programme health checks, including documentation and adherence to governance controls.

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• Accuracy and timeliness of programme reporting.

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BEHAVIOURS

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• Delivered £250k-£5m projects/programmes on time and on budget.

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• Experience across multiple project delivery methodologies (waterfall, agile and hybrid).

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• Ability to apply both creative and pragmatic thinking to problem solving.

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• Can work autonomously with excellent attention to detail.

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• Proven leadership and people management expertise, with the ability to prioritise activities and influence internal and external stakeholders to achieve results.

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• Self-motivated, driven and proactive; able to acclimate in a very fast-paced environment.

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• Ability to take a holistic view of the business case, using this to guide programme execution, and understanding of the broader context of decisions.

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• Strong judgement with willingness to take responsibility for project decisions.

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• Experience in the Retail industry and one or more of the following business areas: Product Development, Supply Chain, Finance, HR or Sustainability is beneficial.

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