FGH Business Centre 66-70 Vicar Ln, Bradford BD1 5AJ
Hybrid flexibility 2 office days per week across Tues/Weds/Thurs
Are you an experienced Project Management professional looking for a new opportunity to elevate your career?
Innovation is key as we look for new ideas which will improve the customer experience and our business processes.
About The Role
To manage the successful delivery of project initiatives, ensuring performance, stakeholder requirements, quality and budget constraints are adhered to.
Accountabilities
Solution Delivery
* Lead, or contribute to the initial definition and impact assessment and estimation of project concepts and ideas.
* Ensure successful project delivery from initiation through to closure, to agreed FGH standards; guidelines; processes.
Business Analysis
* Working closely with a team of stakeholders, to facilitate business design activities including business requirements gathering and definition of As-Is and To-Be processes.
Relationship Management
* Manage project and service stakeholders, ensuring effective and timely communication, realistic expectations and displaying a positive 'can do' attitude.
* Manage third party suppliers ensuring a quality, value for money service and maintaining effective relationships.
Personal
* Maintain a good awareness of general Project Management trends & developments.
* Manage and motivate project teams ensuring effective performance management, training and coaching.
* Contribute to the overall management of the Transformation Function; in a collaborative manner, accepting additional responsibility for specific management activities or leading "ad hoc" management tasks.
Best Practice
* Proactive contribution to continuous improvement of both the IT Function and the organisation as a whole.
* Maintain consistent, accurate plans covering schedule, cost and resource, providing timely progress and performance reporting.
* Support the business in defining and maintaining best practise governance and project methodologies.
* Champion the use of both agile or waterfall.
About You
* Previous role held, work placement or part time role in a commercial or retail environment.
Communication & Leadership
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to engage effectively at all levels, both internally and with 3 parties.
* Management of cross-functional, multi-disciplined personnel (matrix), displaying leadership, motivational and coaching skills.
* Flexible and proactive approach to change, encouraging innovation and presenting change positively.
* Strategic thinking skills, able to place Transformation activity in an organisational context.
Technical Knowledge
* Strong planning, analytical and reporting skills, able to assimilate complex information and present recommendations.
* Awareness of business analysis best practises.
* Confident and proficient in the application of structured project management methods, tools and techniques with a recognised PM qualification such as APMG Agile PM, APM Project Management, Prince 2.
* Practical experience across Project & Software Development Lifecycles (Agile/Hybrid/Waterfall) and associated tools; techniques; methods.
* Broad awareness of Project Management and general Information Technology capabilities concepts and trends.
* agement and general Information Technology capabilities concepts and trends.
About Us
For over 100 years, Freemans has been at the forefront of home shopping, delivering quality products and exceptional service. We've accepted the challenge to transform our business into a modern, digital-first retailer.
With a rich heritage and an eye on the future, we are a forward-thinking, tech-driven online retail business, making fabulous fashion and stylish homewares accessible and affordable for everyone.
Based in West Yorkshire and part of the OTTO group one of the world's largest online retail organisations, Freemans Grattan Holdings (FGH) is the home of familiar brands such as Freemans, Grattan, Kaleidoscope, and Curvissa.
What We Offer You
FLEXIBILITY
We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working options to help you achieve a healthy work life balance. Our full time head office colleagues work a minimum of 2 days per week in the office, allowing the perfect balance between collaborative in-person team work and the flexibility to work from home.
TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
Turning your job into a career is a real passion for us and our development programmes will enable you to grow in role.
We offer clear career pathways that will show you the way, outlining the skills, behaviours and knowledge needed to perform at the next step.
We invest in our colleagues, giving them all the opportunity to progress.
INCLUSIVITY
As a business, we depend on a fusion of identities, characteristics, backgrounds, and cultures to fully appreciate our people and our customers. Freemans has a long-standing commitment to ensuring fairness and balance.
Our company is an inclusive organisation where everybody can make the most of their talent and abilities. Our pay, reward, and progression approach is based solely on fairness and merit.
Benefits
We firmly believe that we should reward our brilliant people with extensive benefits to help them stay healthy, relax and re-energise, have fun, manage the day-to-day and plan for the future. Here are just some of our great benefits for this role:
* Competitive salary, car allowance and annual bonus scheme
* 37 days holiday
* Private Medical Insurance and Healthcare cash plan
* Competitive pension scheme
* Paid paternity and maternity leave
* Incredible staff discounts
* Subsidised Canteen
Ready to apply?
If you're excited about this opportunity and want to join FGH, click apply now to send us your application. Please be sure to include a link to your design portfolio on your CV.
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