Project Manager - Group Transformation

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Bury, Lancashire, England
3-5 Years Experience
Fashion • Sports • Wearables
The Role
Manage the end-to-end delivery of complex projects aligned to JD’s Transformation portfolio. Work closely with stakeholders to implement business strategy and enhance customer offering. Lead project teams to meet targets and manage scope, budgets, risks, and dependencies.
Summary Generated by Built In
  • Job Title – Project Manager
  • Location – BL9 8RR
  • Working rota – Monday-Friday
  • Working hours – 40 Hours

As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for managing the end-to-end delivery of one or more complex projects aligned to JD’s Transformation portfolio.  This portfolio consists of a number of complex projects and programmes designed to deliver substantive change and business benefit across the JD Group in an exciting, fast-paced, global, multi-fascia environment.

You will work closely with business stakeholders, Programme Managers, Project Managers, Business Analysts, operational teams, technology teams and suppliers to help the business implement our strategy and further enhance our market-leading customer offering.

What You'll Be Doing:

As a Project Manager, you'll be doing the following:

  • Lead and manage your project(s) to agreed time / cost / deliverable targets
  • If new pieces of work emerge, work with the business to create project proposals, project initiation documents, business cases, enhancement and change requests
  • Ensure outcomes, objectives and scope are clearly understood, defined, documented and aligned to the overall JD strategy
  • Manage scope and ensure that changes are logged, impact assessed and managed
  • Create and maintain project plans, risks and issues logs, and manage dependencies and budgets

What We're Looking For:

  • 3+ years Project Management experience
  • Previous experience in an omnichannel retail environment is highly advantageous
  • Highly organised, able to work in a fast paced environment, prioiritise and manage multiple demands simultaneously
  • Strong facilitation and influencing skills
  • Confidence, experience and knowledge to problem solve and challenge stakeholders and delivery teams

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascia's in over 30 markets around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

  • Incremental Holiday Allowance
  • Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
  • Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
  • Discounted Gym membership
  • Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
  • Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Interested?

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

Thank you again for your time.



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The Company
Bury
23,337 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

The Group At A Glance:

Established in 1981 with a single store in Bury, in the North West of England, JD Sports Fashion plc (JD Group) are the leading global multi-channel retailer & distributor of branded and own branded sportswear & fashionwear.

JD Group has a global reach with brands and stores across 19 territories in Europe, North America & Asia Pacific. We are proud to provide our consumers with the latest products from recognised brands such as Nike, Adidas, Puma and The North Face, with strong Own Brand labels such as Pink Soda and Supply & Demand to provide an elevated consumer experience.

JD Group continue to lead the way with successful subsidiaries, including Size?, The Hip Store, Go Outdoors, Blacks, Millets, Tiso, Ultimate Outdoors, as well as International Retailers, Sprinter (Spain), Sport Zone as well as JD Finish Line.

Our C:ulture

We inspire our people to reach for higher levels of performance. To achieve these standards, we only recruit the best! All employees are highly skilled, self motivated and in constant pursuit of perfection. Opportunities to progress arise quickly for those people with the right qualities and ambition.

We encourage our people to constantly seek ways to improve our business. This means challenging the way we merchandise, sell and manage the business, being creative and forward thinking in suggesting alternative solutions. Problems are solved and opportunities are seized by people from all levels of the organisation working together.

JD Sports Fashion HQ is situated in Bury, Greater Manchester. JD Sports also have our global Distribution Centre in Rochdale, Greater Manchester & its highly decorative Creative Studio in Manchester City Centre

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