IT Project Manager

The Project Manager works as part of the IT Services and Infrastructure function, leading the management and delivery of a wide range of technology related projects through every stage of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) to agreed time, quality, and cost parameters.

The Project Manager is the main link between the key business stakeholders, IT and 3rd parties and drives change delivery that enables business strategy and goals.

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities / Duties

• Builds and maintains relationships with key internal and external stakeholders that can be leveraged during the delivery of IT initiatives.

• Defining, confirming, and controlling scope for all assigned IT initiatives, ensuring this is clearly and consistently communicated to all stakeholders throughout.

• Leading IT initiatives ensuring delivery by following the Poundland IT Delivery Framework, and that this framework is clear and understood by all stakeholders.

• Lead, motivate and be a role model for the project team to achieve the desired business outcomes and benefits.

• Facilitates a continuous improvement mindset within the project teams, ensuring efficiency is built into delivery of projects and programmes.

• Ensuring the completion and maintenance by relevant project team members of all necessary project management artefacts in line with the Poundland IT Delivery Framework including but not limited to requests for work, benefits cases, RAID logs, RACI logs, project plans, hand over to support documents, project closure documents, managing budgets and resource timesheets.

• Utilising project artefacts to proactively manage projects on a day-to-day basis with focus on risks, issues, resource contention, scope, and timescales to ensure that IT are always actively communicating challenges to stakeholders in these areas.

• Creating, maintaining, and executing detailed, task orientated project plans covering all stages of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) as appropriate, from shaping, discovery, development, testing, implementation, and support.

• Organising and running all required project meetings in line with the Poundland IT Delivery Framework as required, including but not limited to project kick-off meetings, daily stand-ups, weekly project reviews and monthly steering group meetings.

• Completing, publishing and communication of critical project information as necessary in line with the Poundland IT Delivery Framework, including but not limited to requests for work, benefits cases, project highlight reports, project steering group reports and budget reports.

• Engaging with and managing senior stakeholders from board level down on project progress, challenges and required support.

• Managing new and existing third-party suppliers working with Poundland on the delivery of IT projects, ensuring that they have clear, scope, deliverables, and timescales, and that their chosen method of delivery is aligned to the project and the Poundland IT Delivery Framework.

• Contributing to the evolution of the Poundland IT PMO function, sharing ideas, improving processes, and educating colleagues from across the organisation.

Qualifications:

• Prince2 Foundation or APMG project management methodologies would be beneficial but not mandatory.

Experience:

Experience of delivering small, medium, and large technology led projects encompassing software, hardware, data and infrastructure in Retail organisations or similar in terms of size, scale and culture, including retailers with an international presence.

• Experience of working in fast paced, unstructured and ambiguous environments.

• Experience of working with a wide range of stakeholders from different business functions

• Experience of working on every stage of the end-to-end Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

• Experience of supporting the production of business/ benefits cases in support of IT initiatives

• Experience of producing project artefacts to support project delivery including but not limited to project initiation documents, project plans, RAID logs, RACI logs and project closure documents.

• Experience of leading cross functional project teams to deliver technology led solutions.

• Experience of working with, managing and leading with third parties to deliver technology led solutions.

• Experience of managing stakeholders in challenging and demanding environments from c-suite to shop floor.

Poundland & Dealz is one of the UK's largest discount retailers, with around 850 stores serving over seven million customers a day across the UK and Ireland. Our vision is to 'create amazing value every day' for our customers. Our business's heart is 18,000 colleagues in our stores, distribution centres, and customer support centres based in Walsall and Watford. We have fun, and we work hard with passion going that extra mile to succeed. We work at pace, and we are highly resilient - #proudland.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: Up to £55,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Walsall: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: IT0305