Warehouse Project Manager

Project Manager Warehouse and Logistics Programme

3 - 6 months contract

Hybrid flexibility 3 full office days per week across Tues/Weds/Thurs with the flexibility to increase to 5 as required

Are you a dedicated Project Management Professional looking to elevate your career?

We have a great opportunity for you to manage the successful delivery of project initiatives within FGH’s Warehouse & Logistics programme, ensuring performance, stakeholder requirements, quality and budget constraints are adhered to.

• Lead, or contribute to the initial definition and impact assessment and estimation of project concepts and ideas within the Warehouse & Logistics Programme.
• Ensure successful project delivery from initiation through to closure, to agreed FGH standards; guidelines; processes.

• Manage project and service stakeholders, ensuring effective and timely communication, realistic expectations and displaying a positive ‘can do’ attitude.
• Manage third party suppliers ensuring a quality, value for money service and maintaining effective relationships.

• Maintain a good awareness of general Project Management trends & developments.
• Manage and motivate project teams ensuring effective performance management, training and coaching.
• Contribute to the overall management of the Value Delivery Office Function; in a collaborative manner, accepting additional responsibility for specific management activities or leading ‘ad hoc’ management tasks.

• Maintain consistent, accurate plans covering schedule, cost and resource, providing timely progress and performance reporting.
• Support the business in defining and maintaining best practise governance and project methodologies.
• Champion the use of both agile and waterfall.

• Able to commute to Bradford
• Prior experience implementing Warehouse Management / Order Management systems
• Prior experience of supply chain management and logistics
• Prior experience of implementing ERP solutions, ideally Dynamics 365
• Basic user of Word, Excel, able to set up tables, spreadsheets, graphs etc
• Basic commercial understanding of business and retailing.
• Previous role held, work placement or part time role in a commercial or retail environment.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to engage effectively at all levels, both internally and with 3 parties.
• Management of cross-functional, multi-disciplined personnel (matrix), displaying leadership, motivational and coaching skills.
• Flexible and proactive approach to change, encouraging innovation and presenting change positively.
• Strategic thinking skills, able to place Transformation activity in an organisational context.

• Strong planning, analytical and reporting skills, able to assimilate complex information and present recommendations.
• Awareness of business analysis best practises.
• Confident and proficient in the application of structured project management methods, tools and techniques with a recognised PM qualification such as APMG Agile PM, APM Project Management, Prince 2.
• Practical experience across Project & Software Development Life cycles (Agile/Hybrid/Waterfall) and associated tools; techniques; methods.
• Broad awareness of Project Management and general Information Technology capabilities concepts and trends.

• Prior experience of working with a pure play on-line retailer
• Business process optimisation lean manufacturing / six sigma experience
• Understanding of ERP / SCM / WMS / OMS supplier landscape
• Intermediate to Advanced Excel user. Basic competence in use of a database package such as Access or more advanced.
• Good understanding of retailing, markets, customer groups.
• 12 Months plus experience in a commercial environment.

For over 100 years, Freemans has been at the forefront of home shopping, delivering quality products and exceptional service. We’ve accepted the challenge to transform our business into a modern, digital-first retailer.

With a rich heritage and an eye on the future, we are a forward-thinking, tech-driven online retail business, making fabulous fashion and stylish homewares accessible…