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Project Manager - Supply Chain

Location:

London, ENG, GB, N1C 4AG; Manchester, ENG, GB, M2 3AA; Corby, ENG, GB, NN17 5JF

Brand: RS Group

Function: Supply Chain

Work Location: Hybrid

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 role based in London, Manchester, or Corby, with some travel required 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 with the wider group strategy and supported by a complex roadmap of initiatives: The Supply Chain & ERP Programme. Reporting to the Head of Delivery - Supply Chain, you will be responsible for delivering projects supporting the Supply Chain strategy and the Group’s change agenda through managing end-to-end, global, multi-functional initiatives within the Supply Chain Programme. You will deliver change and achieve business outcomes across multiple functions and geographies. While there is no direct line management, you will matrix-manage large teams across different functions and regions to realize benefits. This role also includes responsibility for the project budget.

What you’ll be doing:

• Managing end-to-end projects (planning, delivery, monitoring, control, closure) focused on business change, ensuring delivery within scope, time, cost, quality, and benefits.
• Leading and facilitating cross-functional project teams, motivating team members, and balancing project demands with BAU commitments.
• Translating project definitions into workable plans with an agreed budget; managing the budget throughout the project lifecycle.
• Applying appropriate governance, planning quality reviews, and ensuring deliverables meet standards on time, with corrective actions addressed.
• Developing resource plans and working with Resource Managers to implement them.
• Creating detailed cost/benefit analyses, benefits realization plans, and investment proposals.
• Ensuring accurate and timely data entry into project management software.
• Facilitating trade-off decisions between quality, costs, scope, and time; managing significant changes through change management processes.
• Engaging with the Portfolio to ensure success and achievement of commercial goals; providing regular updates and escalating issues.
• Managing inter-project dependencies, ensuring visibility, and resolving issues with relevant stakeholders.
• Managing risks and issues, analyzing and mitigating or escalating as needed.
• Engaging fully with project sponsors and business owners, influencing stakeholder expectations, and providing regular communication.
• Managing external delivery partners and contractors as required.
• Implementing vendor engagement plans in collaboration with Procurement, ensuring compliance with policies.

About you:

• Proven project management experience leading multiple projects and stakeholders, delivering business change with tangible outcomes and benefits.
• Experience in relevant environments (Digital, Supply Chain, Distribution, Finance, Infrastructure).
• Familiarity with various delivery methodologies (waterfall, Agile, hybrid).
• Strong change management skills and experience with formal change methodologies.
• Excellent facilitation skills, capable of motivating and managing people at all levels.
• Experience in software delivery environments.
• Ability to challenge constructively, build credibility, and work with integrity.
• Significant experience leading complex change or transformation projects, especially around global ERP processes.
• Understanding of GPO structures and broad stakeholder engagement.
• Knowledge of shared service processes and controls, O2C experience desirable.
• Experience with different project methodologies.
• Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills to lead change effectively.

Desirable experience:

• Experience in international project environments.
• Experience in Transport/Logistics.
• Experience negotiating with third parties.

We are RS Group.

For over 80 years, RS has been solving engineering problems, turning 'what ifs' into 'why nots', and making the impossible possible.

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world. We provide service and product solutions, sending a parcel every 2 seconds to over 130 countries. We stock over 800,000 products and offer over 3 million unstocked items to more than 1.2 million customers. We value curiosity, innovation, and human-centric approaches, partnering with our customers, suppliers, colleagues, and communities to solve problems. We are committed to development, wellbeing, diversity, inclusion, and ESG principles. Join us and over 9,000 employees worldwide to think big, do more, and unleash your brilliance.

Rewards:

Alongside standard benefits like bonuses, private medical, life assurance, and pension, we offer family-friendly policies such as support for health conditions, neurodiversity, women’s health, and LGBTQ+ inclusion.