PERM - Project Manager - Supply Chain/IT

We are currently recruiting for an IT Project Manager for a powerhouse company within the Retail/Luxury Fashion industry, who will lead on critical delivery of IT projects within the Product Development and Supply Chain Portfolio of the client. They will lead across a complex multi-function, multi-vendor, global environment and ensure delivery balancing time, cost and quality while maintaining excellent stakeholder management. This is a great opportunity for a strong Project Manager looking for a clear pathway to Programme Manager level. Project Manager Permanent £65k + package London/Hybrid (up to twice a week in London office) Retail Essential experience:

• Come from a Retail background
• Understanding of Product Development, Merchandising, Internal Manufacturing and Supply Chain
• Leading projects end-to-end, from inception and vision creation through to acceptance into service and support
• Strong experience managing project financials including initial business case, estimates, budgets, and forecasts across Opex and Capex
• RAID planning (risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies)
• Ability to control over projects/budgets/time/risk
• Experience of delivering £250k-£5m projects/programmes on time and on budget
• Using Microsoft Excel as a management tool
• Extremely pro-active and thrive in a fast paced, agile environment
• Proven leadership and people management expertise, with the ability to prioritise activities and influence internal and external stakeholders to achieve results
• Act as the bridge between the business and technical functions and understand the broader, business wide context of decisions

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Work closely with product manager/BA/Architect - forming the delivery side of a very structured team
• Establish an approach for ensuring the realisation of benefits and the measurement of those benefits against the business case across the entire programme
• Proactivity manages a complex project stakeholder environment up to executive level, as well as managing challenging 3^rd parties/vendors
• Close projects and conduct lessons learned sessions to capture and document the knowledge and ensure its availability to other programme and project managers

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