Senior Project Manager - WMS Transformation (Blue Yonder)
Summary: This role is for a Senior Project Manager focused on a Warehouse Management System (WMS) transformation programme, specifically implementing Blue Yonder for a Retail client. The position requires strong leadership, planning, and governance skills to manage a complex, multi-party environment as the programme transitions into the delivery phase. The Senior Project Manager will coordinate across various teams, ensuring alignment and accountability while driving delivery outcomes. The responsibilities include managing vendor performance, overseeing delivery against financial and milestone targets, and providing structured support to senior stakeholders. Candidates should have proven experience in leading complex technology programmes, managing System Integrators, and engaging with stakeholders at all levels.
Senior Project Manager - WMS Transformation (Blue Yonder)
Location: London (hybrid)
Contract: 6 months
Inside IR35
This role will be supporting a Retail client on a major Warehouse Management System (WMS) transformation programme, implementing Blue Yonder across their supply chain landscape.
Having completed Discovery/Design, the programme is now moving into delivery phase, and they are looking for a Senior Project Manager to step in and bring strong leadership, planning, and governance across a complex, multi-party environment.
You'll operate at the heart of the programme, working across technology, business, and the System Integrator (Blue Yonder) to drive delivery outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Provide hands-on leadership across technical and business teams, ensuring alignment and accountability
- Act as the primary point of coordination across:
- Blue Yonder (SI)
- Engineering teams
- Solution Architects
- Business SMEs and Analysts
- Drive governance and reporting uplift, including:
- Weekly status reporting
- Steering Committee preparation and delivery
- RAID management (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies)
- Manage vendor performance, ensuring deliverables are clearly defined, tracked, and aligned to commercial agreements
- Oversee delivery against financial and milestone targets, particularly within a T&M model
- Proactively identify and manage risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges
- Provide a "safe pair of hands" to senior stakeholders, bringing structure, clarity, and control
Requirements:
- Proven experience leading complex, enterprise-scale technology programmes or projects
- Strong experience managing System Integrators/third-party vendors, including holding delivery to account
- Ability to operate across technical and business domains, working closely with engineering, architecture, and functional teams
- Demonstrable experience building and managing integrated delivery plans in hybrid (waterfall + agile) environments
- Strong governance, risk, and financial management capability
- Track record of bringing structure, control, and clarity into complex delivery environments
- Confident stakeholder engagement at all levels, including Steering Committee/senior leadership
Nice to Have:
- Experience with supply chain, logistics, or WMS implementations
- Exposure to Blue Yonder (JDA) or similar platforms
- Background in retail or large-scale transformation programmes
To apply for this positon please submit your CV.
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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