Salary | Competitive salary |
Schedule | Full Time |
Location | Boldmere House Hams Hall Distribution Park, Faraday Ave, Birmingham B46 1AL, UK |
Project Manager
The Works is a unique place to… well… work!
We’re the UK’s leading family friendly retailer of value gifts, arts, crafts, toys, books and stationery. With over 530 stores nationwide together with a brilliant online store, we’re here to offer our customers a unique and enjoyable shopping experience, built on our core principles of value, variety and quality.
We’re a proactive and hardworking bunch. We’ve built an environment that’s busy, fast-moving and full of energy. Our atmosphere is welcoming, friendly and inclusive. If you’re the kind of person who’s as crafty, caring and can-do as we are, then this is the kind of culture for you.
The bit ‘About You’
Reporting into the Head of Projects and Programmes, you will play a pivotal role in helping to manage and deliver various projects and change initiatives. These will be across all functions including E-commerce, Retail and Supply Chain.
You’re a natural communicator that can work with various stakeholders internally and externally to construct project plans, manage expectations and drive a team towards a common goal. You have exceptional stakeholder management skills, keeping all parties updated and managing expectations. Comfortable working with our internally and external development teams to deliver projects on time and to budget. You are comfortable liaising with senior and exec stakeholders.
The bit ‘About the Role’
The purpose of the role is to help deliver projects and change initiatives across the organisation, working with various stakeholders internally and externally. Managing the change from inception, working with a Business Analyst on large scale projects to define the deliverables, construct a project plan and deliver the change on time and to budget. You will play a role in helping to shape The Works Project Delivery Methodology ensuring we are continuously looking to improve our ways of working.
The key responsibilities are:
Project Planning
You will work with all project stakeholders to construct a project plan that all parties are in agreeance with. Working with the senior management in development, infrastructure and services, and third-party specialists you will ensure needs, resources, dependencies, and constraints are all considered in presenting planning options that can deliver the outcomes we seek.
Risk and Issue Management
You will identify risks prior to project kick off, identifying mitigation options and frequent review points. Keeping the RAID Log updated and focusing on resolution and mitigation. If required, you will escalate any to your line manager
Stakeholder Management
You will engage with all Project stakeholders across all levels. Ensuring that they are kept updated with project progress and any risks to agreed timelines or budgets. Expectations are well managed. Comfortable to lead project update meetings and steering groups with colleagues at all levels. Ensuring the Head of Projects is updated with any key developments or issues as a project progresses.
Indirect Resource Management
You will work with the relevant team members to deliver a project. Planning in any resource requirements and notifying the individual or line manager when it will be required. Comfortable escalating to Line Manager of resource or Head of Projects if not progressing to plan.
Team Development
You will work with the Head of Project to continuously improve our ways of working as a project team. Updating our critical artifacts and processes to ensure that we are learning from all mistakes and successes during a project.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience:
Mandatory:
Desirable:
Behaviours:
What we will give to you…!
Finally, the bit "About The Works"
We are people who do!
Here at The Works, we are building a working environment that’s fun, friendly, and supportive - all at the same time. It’s somewhere that’s designed for people who love getting busy, whether that’s helping customers, meeting new challenges, or building a rewarding career.
It’s a place for people who know how to roll their sleeves up, get creative, and put their passion and imagination to work…People who do!
We are the UK’s leading family friendly retailer of value gifts, arts, crafts, toys, books and stationery. With over 500 stores nationwide together with a brilliant online store, we’re here to offer our customers a unique and enjoyable shopping experience, built on our core principles of value, variety and quality. You will find our stores in a huge and diverse range of locations; on high streets, in shopping centres, on retail parks, and as concessions (usually in garden centres). We are also one of the few value retailers with a full featured online store that helps our customers to shop how they want, when they want, 7 days a week.
Oh....and we are super proud to be a Sunday Times 2020 Top 25 “Best Big Companies” to work for.
It all means that we have built the kind of working environment that is the perfect place for people who love our products to build a career. It is somewhere you can put your proud and passionate, inclusive and accessible, confident and honest, fun and creative, and nimble and driven approach to work.
And if you can roll up your sleeves, get on with any job, and meet any challenge, it’s also somewhere you can thrive.
Project Manager
The Works is a unique place to… well… work!
We’re the UK’s leading family friendly retailer of value gifts, arts, crafts, toys, books and stationery. With over 530 stores nationwide together with a brilliant online store, we’re here to offer our customers a unique and enjoyable shopping experience, built on our core principles of value, variety and quality.
We’re a proactive and hardworking bunch. We’ve built an environment that’s busy, fast-moving and full of energy. Our atmosphere is welcoming, friendly and inclusive. If you’re the kind of person who’s as crafty, caring and can-do as we are, then this is the kind of culture for you.
The bit ‘About You’
Reporting into the Head of Projects and Programmes, you will play a pivotal role in helping to manage and deliver various projects and change initiatives. These will be across all functions including E-commerce, Retail and Supply Chain.
You’re a natural communicator that can work with various stakeholders internally and externally to construct project plans, manage expectations and drive a team towards a common goal. You have exceptional stakeholder management skills, keeping all parties updated and managing expectations. Comfortable working with our internally and external development teams to deliver projects on time and to budget. You are comfortable liaising with senior and exec stakeholders.
The bit ‘About the Role’
The purpose of the role is to help deliver projects and change initiatives across the organisation, working with various stakeholders internally and externally. Managing the change from inception, working with a Business Analyst on large scale projects to define the deliverables, construct a project plan and deliver the change on time and to budget. You will play a role in helping to shape The Works Project Delivery Methodology ensuring we are continuously looking to improve our ways of working.
The key responsibilities are:
Project Planning
You will work with all project stakeholders to construct a project plan that all parties are in agreeance with. Working with the senior management in development, infrastructure and services, and third-party specialists you will ensure needs, resources, dependencies, and constraints are all considered in presenting planning options that can deliver the outcomes we seek.
Risk and Issue Management
You will identify risks prior to project kick off, identifying mitigation options and frequent review points. Keeping the RAID Log updated and focusing on resolution and mitigation. If required, you will escalate any to your line manager
Stakeholder Management
You will engage with all Project stakeholders across all levels. Ensuring that they are kept updated with project progress and any risks to agreed timelines or budgets. Expectations are well managed. Comfortable to lead project update meetings and steering groups with colleagues at all levels. Ensuring the Head of Projects is updated with any key developments or issues as a project progresses.
Indirect Resource Management
You will work with the relevant team members to deliver a project. Planning in any resource requirements and notifying the individual or line manager when it will be required. Comfortable escalating to Line Manager of resource or Head of Projects if not progressing to plan.
Team Development
You will work with the Head of Project to continuously improve our ways of working as a project team. Updating our critical artifacts and processes to ensure that we are learning from all mistakes and successes during a project.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience:
Mandatory:
Desirable:
Behaviours:
What we will give to you…!
Finally, the bit "About The Works"
We are people who do!
Here at The Works, we are building a working environment that’s fun, friendly, and supportive - all at the same time. It’s somewhere that’s designed for people who love getting busy, whether that’s helping customers, meeting new challenges, or building a rewarding career.
It’s a place for people who know how to roll their sleeves up, get creative, and put their passion and imagination to work…People who do!
We are the UK’s leading family friendly retailer of value gifts, arts, crafts, toys, books and stationery. With over 500 stores nationwide together with a brilliant online store, we’re here to offer our customers a unique and enjoyable shopping experience, built on our core principles of value, variety and quality. You will find our stores in a huge and diverse range of locations; on high streets, in shopping centres, on retail parks, and as concessions (usually in garden centres). We are also one of the few value retailers with a full featured online store that helps our customers to shop how they want, when they want, 7 days a week.
Oh....and we are super proud to be a Sunday Times 2020 Top 25 “Best Big Companies” to work for.
It all means that we have built the kind of working environment that is the perfect place for people who love our products to build a career. It is somewhere you can put your proud and passionate, inclusive and accessible, confident and honest, fun and creative, and nimble and driven approach to work.
And if you can roll up your sleeves, get on with any job, and meet any challenge, it’s also somewhere you can thrive.
Salary | Competitive salary |
Schedule | Full Time |
Location | Boldmere House Hams Hall Distribution Park, Faraday Ave, Birmingham B46 1AL, UK |