Project Manager Rochdale, England
Job description
Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues and over 3,400 stores across several retail fascias in over 30 markets around the world.
JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.
We want to be the leading global omni-channel retailer in the sports, fashion, and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.
Role Description
The primary purpose of this position is to plan and manage the delivery of business systems projects and associated technical support services in line with business objectives and ongoing operations. This includes planning and supporting the gathering of business requirements, creating project schedules, estimating, execution, implementation and service transition to the support teams. The individual will work closely with the functional business groups, the internal IT teams and 3rd parties to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of systems solutions deployed in support of business goals and objectives.
Responsibilities
- Deliver projects in accordance with Project and Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC).
- Deliver projects using a variety of different methodologies, depending on the type of project.
- Successfully manage and deliver a number of projects in a complex retail business.
- Liaise with functional business groups in order to scope project requirements and ensure best practice is adopted and interdependencies are recognised/optimised.
- Manage business projects to agreed time/cost/deliverable targets.
- Ensure business and IT sign off at each stage of the project
- Ensure compliance is adhered to against legal, regulatory, policy and best practice requirements within any given project.
- Ensure that full requirements gathering and analysis is completed where appropriate, and traceability is maintained throughout the SDLC
- Work closely with Testing Services to ensure that projects/work requests are adequately tested (ST/SIT/UAT/Regression) prior to release
- Control the storage and access of documented business processes relating to any given project and its implementation in accordance with PMO Guidelines.
- Ensure the smooth transition of projects from development to support.
- Ensure that all projects comply with internal and external policies and procedures.
- Ensure that the integrity of JD Sports Fashion PLC's Project Delivery Methodology is maintained.
- Contribute to a central repository of documented business processes for use in any future project activities.
- Produce and maintain MS Project plans
- Management of any project related Risks, Issues and Change Requests
Experience
Essential
- Experience of being involved in complex projects or change programmes
- Strong customer service orientation and customer facing skills
- Strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
- Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in verbal, written or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables
- Ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressure, ever changing work environment
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
- Highly self-motivated and directed
- Strong attention to detail
- A positive outlook, ensuring that we deploy a "can do" attitude to clients and colleagues, treating everyone with respect
- General business awareness: empathising with the priorities and needs of a range of functional business groups. Understanding the subtleties and constraints they work under and tailoring our response to them.
- Experience with supplier management.
- A full driving license
Preferable
- Retail knowledge.
- Knowledge or experience of software solutions for Retail.
Reporting
- Identify and report, where possible, any conflicts within and between various parts of the business during major business change. Any unresolved issues to be raised with the PMO Manager
- Ensure that the project meets the stage gate entry and exit criteria
- Manage any internal or external operational resource relating to any given project.
Ensure that projects are reported on in a timely and consistent manner
We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:
- Free parking
- Holiday Allowance
- Discretionary Bonus Scheme
- up to 50% Staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation, depending on level of role
- Pension Scheme
- Flexible Working Hours
- Health plans – Depending on level of role
- Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.
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 you applying, 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.
