Summary: The Retail Project Manager role involves end-to-end management of New Product Development (NPD) Retail Projects, ensuring stakeholders are informed of timelines and progress. The position requires ownership of the project budget and effective communication with all project stakeholders, while managing risks and collaborating with various teams. Essential competencies include project management experience, collaboration skills, and the ability to adapt in a fast-paced environment. The role also emphasizes the importance of influencing skills and excellent time management. Retail knowledge is considered advantageous for candidates. The position is based near Swindon.
Job Title: Retail Project Manager
Location: near Swindon
Rate: up to £349 per day
Description:
Key deliverables of the role (but not limited to)
- To provide end to end management of NPD (New Product Development) Retail Project, supported with detailed timelines, giving stakeholders the visibility of plans and progress against them.
- To own the project budget, specifically for the Retail tasks of NPD Projects
- To communicate clearly and regularly with all project stakeholders and senior members of the team.
- To manage project risk and issues, escalating where appropriate to Programme Manager.
- To partner with our Commercial Go To Market team, to deliver against the strategic direction set.
- To collaborate closely with all in-house production teams (Studio/Film/Content/TV/Imagery), keeping them up-to-date with appropriate information.
Stakeholders to manage and work in collaboration with
- Commercial Go To Market team
- Producers (Studio/Film/Content/TV/Imagery), keeping them up-to-date with appropriate information.
- Planning & PMO Director
- Head of Production
- Delivery Director
- Creative Teams
Essential Competencies
- Proven success and experience in managing medium to large scale projects with lots of moving parts
- A true collaborator that brings teams together
- You will have a solutions' focused approach to your work
- Influencing skills ability to drive better ways to deliver
- You will be able to adapt and work in a fast paced and ever-changing environment
- Highly organised and possess excellent time management skills
- Pragmatic and decisive - be able to respond to challenges within a project with speed and accuracy and deliver effective solutions
- Multi tasker - be able to juggle priorities across multiple needs
- Positive "can do" attitude
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Retail knowledge would be advantageous
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.