Warehouse Project Manager - 3-6 months in Bradford

Project Manager Warehouse and Logistics Programme - 3 to 6 months contract. Hybrid flexibility with 3 full office days per week across Tues/Weds/Thurs, with the option to increase to 5 as required.

Are you a dedicated Project Management Professional looking to elevate your career? We have a great opportunity for you to manage the successful delivery of project initiatives within FGH's Warehouse & Logistics programme, ensuring performance, stakeholder requirements, quality and budget constraints are adhered to.

• Solution Delivery: Lead or contribute to the initial definition and impact assessment and estimation of project concepts and ideas within the Warehouse & Logistics Programme. Ensure successful project delivery from initiation through to closure, to agreed FGH standards, guidelines, and 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 Value Delivery Office Function in a collaborative manner, accepting additional responsibility for specific management activities or leading 'ad hoc' management tasks.
• Best Practice: Maintain consistent, accurate plans covering schedule, cost, and resource, providing timely progress and performance reporting. Support the business in defining and maintaining best practice governance and project methodologies. Champion the use of both agile and waterfall.

• Able to commute to Bradford.
• Prior experience implementing Warehouse Management / Order Management systems.
• Prior experience of supply chain management and logistics.
• Prior experience of implementing ERP solutions, ideally Dynamics 365.
• Basic user of Word, Excel, able to set up tables, spreadsheets, graphs etc.
• Basic commercial understanding of business and retailing.
• Previous role held, work placement or part-time role in a commercial or retail environment.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to engage effectively at all levels, both internally and with third 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.

• Strong planning, analytical and reporting skills, able to assimilate complex information and present recommendations.
• Awareness of business analysis best practices.
• 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, and methods.
• Broad awareness of Project Management and general Information Technology capabilities concepts and trends.

• Prior experience of working with a pure play online retailer.
• Business process optimisation lean manufacturing / six sigma experience.
• Understanding of ERP / SCM / WMS / OMS supplier landscape.
• Intermediate to Advanced Excel user. Basic competence in use of a database package such as Access or more advanced.
• Good understanding of retailing, markets, customer groups.
• 12 months plus experience in a commercial environment.

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.

• 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 teamwork 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.

• 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.