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Senior Project Manager

Bury, England, United Kingdom
  • Job Title – Senior Project Manager
  • Location – BL9 8RR
  • Working rota – Monday - Friday
  • Working hours – 40 hours
  • Working model - 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home

Role Overview:

As a Senior Project Manager you will be responsible for managing the end-to-end delivery of one or more complex projects aligned to JD’s Transformation portfolio.  This portfolio consists of a number of complex projects and programmes designed to deliver substantive change and business benefit across the JD Group in an exciting, fast paced, global, multi-fascia environment. You will work closely business stakeholders, Programme Managers, Project Managers, Business Analysts, operational teams, technology teams and suppliers to help the business implement our strategy and further enhance our market leading customer offering. Programmes range from implementing transformational technology change; expanding global supply chain operations; delivering business growth through mergers & acquisitions; developing innovative customer offerings to further differentiate ourselves from competitors. Quality, agility and pace will be at the heart of everything you do, driving improvements that help us deliver quicker to market ensuring we keep our businesses safe and secure. We are looking for someone passionate about delivering great results and their own personal development. In return you will receive the support, training and development to further your career.   

Key Duties / Responsibilities:

  • Lead and manage your project(s) to agreed time / cost / deliverable targets
  • If new pieces of work emerge, work with the business to create project proposals, project initiation documents, business cases, enhancement and change requests
  • Ensure outcomes, objectives and scope are clearly understood, defined, documented and aligned to the overall JD strategy
  • Manage scope and ensure that changes are logged, impact assessed and managed
  • Create and maintain project plans, risks and issues logs, and manage dependencies and budgets
  • Identify stakeholders, build trusted relationships and ensure that stakeholders are actively managed
  • Lead the team of Project Managers, Business Analysts, other JD roles and partners / suppliers involved with the project(s) to ensure that outcomes are achieved to the desired standard
  • Facilitate and encourage collaboration across departments to ensure projects are completed successfully
  • Commercially manage your project(s) ensuring costs and benefits are fully understood, tracked and reported against monthly
  • Communicate clearly on the status of your projects, escalating issues and risks appropriately to the Programme Manager, Programme Director and other key stakeholders. Understand the impact of any risks tp key deliverables and milestones and identify mitigation measures
  • Lead all levels of reporting of your project(s) ie at Project & Programme Boards, weekly status reporting, monthly steerco’s and Global Exec Committee reporting. Where relevant and appropriate chair the meeting
  • Take responsibility for your personal development including working with your manager to set objectives and milestones and identify your training needs
  • Bring external best practice and identify new ways of working that will assist the Group Transformation function to deliver a higher quality of delivery to the business

Skills / Experience / Knowledge Needed:

  •  3+ years Senior Project Management experience
  • Previous experience in an omnichannel retail environment is highly advantageous
  • Highly organised, able to work in a fast paced environment, prioiritise and manage multiple demands simultaneously
  • Strong facilitation and influencing skills
  • Confidence, experience and knowledge to problem solve and challenge stakeholders and delivery teams
  • Self-starter able to work with limited guidance
  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Diligent, focused and dependable, able to build strong relationships based on integrity
  • Team player able to work constructively with other project managers, business analysts, operational teams, technology teams, suppliers, business stakeholders and senior management

Desirable Skills / Experience

  • Professional certification in Project Management
  • Experience working with omnichannel teams such as retail, digital, IT, operations, merchandising, marketing, finance, information security, loss control, analytics, customer care

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 90,000 colleagues over 4,500 stores across several retail fascia's in over 36 countries around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

  • Incremental Holiday Allowance
  • Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
  • Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
  • Discounted Gym membership
  • Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
  • Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Interested?

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

Thank you again for your time.

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