Project Manager

This is an exceptional opportunity for an experience Business change IT Project Manager to join a leading retailer that has been at the forefront of high-street fashion for many years.

An amazing business where values, purpose and inclusion sit at the centre of everything, this is truly a great organisation where you can work in a vibrant, exciting environment where you can be your authentic self and be inspired by those around you.

This role sits within IT but is a true project manager role where you will be required to engage and articulate IT enabled change requirements with the business as well as collaborate with your colleagues within IT.

The IT team don't accept the status quo, they think disruptively about Technology and how it can be used effectively within the business.

They collaborate with the business to deliver that technology which supports  business ambition to be the leading omnichannel retailer.

The ideal applicant will have:

• solid project financial management abilities
• the capacity to identify risks
• practical project mobilisation knowledge, and matrix team management experience.

This role can be based in our London or from a site on the south coast (Dorset) and will offer hybrid working.

The Role:

• Ensuring all project activity is managed in line with company standards and policies

• Adhering to the project management framework, tools, processes and reporting principles set out by the PMO

• Monitoring and managing costs, timelines and quality and taking action where these deviate from agreed tolerances

 • Providing regular and accurate status reports to stakeholders including PMO

 • Ensuring risks, issues and assumptions are actively identified, documented, and managed and to take appropriate resolving action where needed

• Ensuring key decisions are captured and actioned

• Managing project dependencies as well as impacts across multiple business units, solving problems as encountered and escalating when appropriate Project Delivery

• Leading planning and accurately estimating costs, timescales and resource requirements for successful delivery

• Identifying and managing to the critical path

• Interactively managing the project through use of stand ups and team boards when appropriate • Working with the business to ensure the business case is created, training is considered, acceptance criteria are defined and signed off, and that anticipated benefits are tracked

• Task managing the project team, ensuring business requirements are complete and reviewing the resulting functional and technical specifications to be certain that projects will meet the business and technical requirements

• Managing the relationship with a small number of external suppliers on any one project and ensuring components are delivered in line with requirements

• Ensuring any blockers are removed

• Ensuring all required testing is performed in order to validate that requirements have been met by the delivered solution

• Managing the implementation and working with the business lead to ensure all required business change activities are completed

• Engaging with the IT Service Delivery team to prepare for project handover

• Facilitating the resolution of any serious defects during the post go-live warranty period

• Ensuring 3rd party suppliers resolve issues within agreed warranty SLA

• Ensuring projects are formally closed and that lessons learned are captured and shared Project Team Management

• Building and managing one or more small, focused project delivery teams whose members may span multiple sites

• Matrix managing project resources where required

• Ensuring the teams are communicated with and informed at all times

• Providing leadership to the project team ensuring that team members are supported, motivated and contributing effectively

• Takes action when there are opportunities to improve Project Management ways of working

• Representing the project team, ensuring effective relationships are built and maintained with the business and managing expectations of all stakeholders

About you:

• A degree in IT or related business topic desirable

• A good working understanding of Microsoft applications – Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Project and Visio

• Experience in IT Projects and/or IT enabled business change

• Experience of managing matrix teams (preferred)

• A good understanding of all stages in a project lifecycle and delivery approaches e.g. waterfall, agile, etc.

• Strong financial management skills and experience

• Holds a project management certification e.g. PRINCE2, PMP, APM, Scrum Master