Overview
Role: IT Project Manager - Digital
Contract: Permanent
Shift pattern: Full Time
Location: Nottingham Support Office
Closing date: 22nd September 2025
Recruitment Partner: Matthew Nelligan
About the role
Our Digital Team are looking for a dynamic IT Project Manager to join the Digital Core Programme. As a Project Manager you will be accountable for key projects within this major growth area in the Boots IT department. This is a great opportunity to join a high performing team at the forefront of IT projects for the Boots Digital Core team. IT is at the centre of what we do. This is retail IT for the real world, you\'re so close to your customers in all ways - in store, online and internally. You can get involved with all the different areas of our business, working on projects that make a real difference - from our hugely successful Boots App to our world-class warehousing system. We place so much value on our IT team - if you want to build a career that will keep developing with your skills, there\'s no better place to do it.
Boots UK is part of the Retail Pharmacy International Division of Walgreens Boots Alliance and is the UKs leading pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer. With over 2500 stores in the UK our purpose is to help our customers look and feel better than they ever thought possible. You can learn more by visiting boots.jobs.
Responsibilities
* Managing key projects through stages of the project lifecycle following initial shaping by Lead BA to ensure effective and high-quality delivery
* Manage and maintain relationships with partners (both business & technical) to shape, influence and inform strategic direction
* Work with the RTE to facilitate PI planning.
* Following project management frameworks and standards within the team
* Continually assessing projects to ensure Risks and Issues are captured and understood
* Managing and tracking project finances
Qualifications
* You will have significant experience of working within an agile software delivery environment ideally in a leadership role.
* Strong Programme and Project Management experience
* Enthusiastic Project Manager able to work under pressure in fast moving environments.
* Experience of Retail and Digital preferable
* Experience of Waterfall and Agile preferable
* Commercial and strategic thinking
* Excellent relationship building, negotiating, and networking skills, able to engage and influence senior partners
* Ability to explain, simplify and communicate
* Structured and organised
* A thorough understanding of Agile methodologies supported by the skills to guide and coach teams in prioritising and executing against a product backlog.
* Strong understanding of principles, theories, practices and techniques for managing activities involved in planning and delivering software development projects.
* Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to manage, influence, negotiate and collaborate with a variety of stakeholders at all levels in the business.
* Self-starter, highly proactive and assertive in a demanding and dynamic environment
Benefits
* Boots Retirement Savings Plan
* Discretionary annual bonus
* Generous employee discounts
* Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
* Flexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.
* Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.
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