Project Manager - Supply Chain

We are seeking a qualified Project Manager, Supply Chain with transformational change project delivery experience. If you have a proven track record in Business transformations, working in a matrix organisation and are ready to make a significant impact, we want to hear from you! You'll bring your expertise in hands-on project management as well as influencing globally dispersed stakeholder groups, to make things happen and focus our teams on delivering brilliantly. This is a hybrid working role with a base location of either London, Manchester or Corby. Some travel will be required as necessary to support projects across the group.

The role:

Supply Chain has an ambitious 5-year strategy to transform our operations and enhance the service we deliver for our customers and suppliers. This strategy is aligned to the wider group strategy and is under-pinned by a large, complex road map of initiatives: The Supply Chain & ERP Programme. Reporting to the Head of Delivery - Supply Chain, you will be responsible for the delivery of project(s) supporting the Supply Chain strategy and the Group’s change agenda through managing end-to-end, global, multi-functional initiatives from within the Supply Chain Programme. Responsibility for delivering change and related Business outcomes across multiple Business functions and geographies. There is no direct line management; but you will be expected to ‘matrix manage’ large numbers of individuals, across different functions and geographies to successfully deliver the changes required to realise benefits. This role includes responsibility for the project budget.

What you’ll be doing:

• Responsible for the end-to-end management (planning, delivery, monitoring, control and closure) of projects with focus on business change – ensuring delivery to agreed scope, time, cost, quality and benefits.
• Provide leadership to, and facilitate the work of, cross-functional project teams. Ensure team members remain motivated and committed to the project objectives whilst balancing the demands of any Business As Usual (BAU) commitments.
• Translate the approved Project Definition into a workable plan with an agreed budget. Accountable for managing the project budget throughout the project lifecycle.
• Agree the appropriate governance approach and ensure it is applied to the project. Plan and schedule quality reviews, ensuring the relevant people attend, project deliverables are produced on time to the required standard, and any corrective actions addressed.
• Produce a Resource Plan and work with the appropriate Resource Managers to implement.
• Develop detailed costs/benefits, benefits realisation plans and Investment Proposals.
• Responsible for the accurate and timely entry of data into project management software.
• Where required, facilitate making trade off decisions within the project between quality, costs, scope and time. Ensure any significant changes are subject to the change management process.
• Engage fully across the Portfolio to ensure its overall success and the commercial goals are being achieved – provide regular project updates, escalate issues and concerns.
• Identify and manage inter-project dependencies, ensuring visibility, with plans to resolve, and managed through with all relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure all risks and issues are collected, analysed, and where necessary mitigated or escalated.
• Engage fully with the relevant project Sponsor and Business Owner. Influence and manage stakeholder expectations by monitoring progress against the plan and issuing regular communications, escalating problems and issues that impact scope, time, cost, quality and benefits in a timely manner.
• Manage external delivery partners and contractors when required.
• Agree and implement vendor engagement plans with the Indirect Procurement team, ensuring compliance with Group purchasing policies.
  
  

About you:

• Proven Project Management experience leading a number of projects and stakeholders with a track record of delivering business change to achieve outcomes and benefits.
• Experience of working in the relevant business environment (Digital, Supply Chain, Distribution, Finance, Infrastructure).
• Experience of working with a variety of delivery methodologies including waterfall/Agile/hybrid.
• Strong focus on effective and engaging change management, and exposure to formalised change methodologies.
• Strong team facilitation skills - able to manage and motivate people at all levels in the organisation.
• Experience working in a software delivery environment.
• Ability to challenge constructively, build credibility and work with integrity at all levels within the organisation
• Certified Project Management qualifications e.g. APM, Prince 2, MSP, Agile.
• Significant experience in leading complex Change/Transformation projects around global ERP processes or similar.
• Have an appreciation for a GPO structure, and the broad range of stakeholder engagement required.
• Have an understanding of global shared service processes and controls, O2C desirable
• Have experience working with different project methodologies.
• Ability to bring others on the change journey, through excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills.
  
  

Desirable experience we will be looking for:

• Experience of working in a complex, international project environment.
• Experience of working within Transport/Logistics.
• Certified Change Management qualifications e.g. PROSCI.
• Experience of negotiating with and managing 3rd parties.
  
  

We are RS Group.

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world. We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 800,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers. We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems. We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do. Come and join us and over 9000 employees worldwide – and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.

Rewards

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a FTSE listed company (Annual Bonus, Private Medical Cover, Life Assurance, Generous Pension) we’ve just introduced several new Family Friendly Policies including:

• Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma.
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members.
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause.
• Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues.