Senior Project Manager; FTC
Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, SY7, England, UK
Listed on 2026-06-11
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Management
Business Management, Operations Manager, Program / Project Manager, Business Analyst -
Business
Business Management, Operations Manager, Business Analyst
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Overview
Help shape and deliver the technology-enabled change that will define the future of Screwfix.
As we continue to invest in our growth ambitions, we're creating two brand-new Senior Project Manager roles reporting into our Head of Business Architecture. Sitting within our Technology function, these positions will play a key role in shaping and delivering some of Screwfix's most important strategic initiatives, partnering with senior leaders across the business, including members of the Board, to turn ambitious ideas into reality.
This isn't a traditional project delivery role where everything is already defined. Often, you'll start with a business challenge, opportunity, or emerging requirement and help shape the solution from the ground up. Working closely with Business Analysts, Architects, technology teams, and business stakeholders, you'll lead discovery activities, build business cases, assess options, and create clear delivery plans before guiding projects through to successful implementation.
Working across technology, transformation, business change, process improvement, and operational initiatives, you'll lead high-impact projects that support Screwfix's future growth. Along the way, you'll influence senior stakeholders, navigate complexity, and bring together the right people, processes, and technology solutions to deliver meaningful outcomes.
If you enjoy creating clarity from complexity, shaping technology-enabled solutions, and delivering projects that have a genuine impact on business performance, this is an opportunity to make your mark within one of the UK's leading retailers.
These roles are 18-month fixed-term contract positions.
Benefits- Discretionary annual bonus up to 20%
- 33 days' holiday (including bank holidays, 5 of which can be taken flexibly)
- Hybrid working with up to 2 days working from home
- Flexible start and end times around core working hours
- Buy More Holiday - eligible colleagues can boost their holiday allowance by up to one extra week
- EV Car Scheme in Partnership with Tusker - eligible colleagues can lease a brand-new or pre-loved electric vehicle
- Up to 14% employer pension contributions
- Life cover up to 4x your salary
- Health cash plan and discounted gym memberships (up to 25% savings)
- 20% discount at Screwfix and B&Q
Financial wellbeing
- Wagestream access to track earnings and save
- Access to the Kingfisher Share Scheme
- Colleague support fund
- Exclusive offers and discounts via our Hapi app
- Cycle-to-work scheme and savings on bikes
Every day benefits
- Career progression and development programmes
- Coaching and mentoring to help you thrive
- Access to wellbeing resourcing including Pep Talk
- Support networks available
- Work with the Business PMO to identify, define, evaluate, plan, track and realise the business benefits of projects
- Takes a lead on making change projects happen, ensuring that they are delivered to time, cost and quality
- Shape the project scope and manage the delivery of business initiatives/change
- Create project plan with business stakeholders and be responsible for the plan and facilitation of delivery
- Will make change projects happen, ensuring effective end to end project/programme management
- Will take responsibility for solving specific problems within their projects, utilising their expertise to ensure complex customer needs are met
- Develop and maintain effective relationships with key project stakeholders
- Is able to build effective relationships outside of the function and organisation
- Ensures that effective project management governance is in place and that project management principles are utilised
- Effectively manages project risks
- Is able to utilise their expertise to make effective decisions that impact both on their projects and across the business
- Understand business processes and ensure business is ready to embed the change
- Identifies opportunities for continuous improvement and ensures they are implemented where feasible
- Experience of working in a project management environment with evidence of the successful deployment of medium/large projects in a matrix business
- Proven ability to work on own initiative and lead projects through to a successful conclusion
- Experience of working in an ambiguous environment and supporting others
- Experience managing project within a technology-led environment
- Ability to engage stakeholders in a project management approach, so that governance can be effectively deployed
- Significant experience of managing and influencing stakeholder relationships at multiple levels
- Experience of analysing and utilising data to ensure the effective management of projects and problem solving
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work with people at all levels
- Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Project or other PM tools.
- Project Management accreditation in PRINCE2 or similar and proven ability to implement a PM framework or methodology as appropriate
We are an equal opportunity employer. Screwfix is…
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