Project Manager

Project Manager - Business Operations Execution

London - 3 to 5 days onsite

ASAP until March 2026

£600 - £650/day inside IR35

Lorien's Retail client are currently recruiting for a Project Manager to lead critical delivery projects within their Business Operations Portfolio. As the Project Manager, you will have the opportunity to work across a diverse range of business areas, including Product Development, Pricing, Planning & Merchandising, Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Corporate Affairs, and Sustainability.

Key Responsibilities of the Project Manager Role:

• Leading projects end-to-end, from inception and vision creation through to acceptance into service and support.
• Manage project financials including initial business case, estimates, budgets and forecasts across Opex and Capex.
• Proactivity manage a complex project stakeholder environment up to executive level across multiple internal functions and locations.
• Lead and manage internal resource across a matrix organization and across a supplier landscape globally.
• Define and manage a clear communication strategy across project team up to executive levels.
• Create and maintain accurate programme-wide RAID log and ensure that the relevant parties are involved in addressing each factor.
• Directly manage experienced workstream leads within the project of work.
• Establish an approach for ensuring the realisation of benefits and the measurement of those benefits against the business case across the entire programme.
• Close projects and conduct lessons learned sessions to capture and document the knowledge and ensure its availability to other programme and project managers.

What We're Looking For:

• Experience in the Retail industry and one or more of the following business areas: Product Development, Supply Chain, Finance, HR or Sustainability.
• Delivered £250k-£10m projects/programmes on time and on budget.
• Experience across multiple project delivery methodologies (waterfall, agile and hybrid).
• Ability to apply both creative and pragmatic thinking to problem solving.
• Can work autonomously with excellent attention to detail.
• Proven leadership and people management expertise, with the ability to prioritise activities and influence internal and external stakeholders to achieve results.
• Self-motivated, driven and proactive; able to acclimate in a very fast-paced environment.
• Ability to take a holistic view of the business case, using this to guide programme execution, and understanding of the broader context of decisions.
• Strong judgement with willingness to take responsibility for project decisions.

Should this position be of interest please submit your CV and I will be in contact as required.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.