RS Group is hiring a Project Manager to lead the end-to-end delivery of strategic projects supporting our five-year supply chain transformation. In this influential role, you will coordinate multi-functional teams across multiple geographies, manage delivery partners, and ensure successful implementation to realise tangible business benefits.
What You'll Do
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of Supply Chain change initiatives from planning through to implementation and benefits realisation, ensuring delivery to agreed scope, time, cost and quality.
- Manage cross-functional teams across Supply Chain, Logistics, Distribution Centres, Digital, Technology, Procurement and Finance to ensure alignment and progress.
- Translate high-level project definitions into clear delivery plans, including milestones, budgets and resource requirements.
- Define and execute project governance, ensuring effective reporting, issue escalation, quality assurance and decision-making.
- Develop detailed cost/benefit assessments, business cases and benefits realisation plans.
- Manage project budgets throughout the lifecycle, ensuring accurate forecasting and cost control.
- Maintain high-quality project data and reporting within project management tools.
- Identify and manage interdependencies across the wider transformation portfolio.
- Proactively manage risks, issues and change control, ensuring appropriate mitigation and escalation.
- Work closely with Sponsors and Business Owners to shape delivery, manage expectations and ensure readiness for change.
- Manage external partners and contractors, ensuring delivery outcomes and contractual compliance.
- Collaborate with Indirect Procurement to support any vendor sourcing or engagement required for project delivery.
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience delivering complex business change projects, ideally within Supply Chain, Logistics, Distribution, Operations or related environments.
- Experience working in matrix organisations, influencing stakeholders without direct authority.
- Strong familiarity with multiple delivery methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid).
- Excellent change management capability, with experience applying structured change methodologies.
- Strong leadership and facilitation skills, capable of motivating cross-functional teams balancing project and BAU responsibilities.
- Experience working alongside digital, data or software teams involved in operational or supply chain system enhancements.
- Skilled at constructive challenge, building credibility and operating with integrity at all levels.
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills, with the ability to bring people on the journey.
Team & Environment
This role reports to the Head of Delivery, Group Product & Supply Chain and involves no direct line management. It requires expert matrix leadership to coordinate across functions.
Benefits & Compensation
- Financial: pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
- Wellbeing: medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership
- Lifestyle: transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts
- Spotlight: our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values
- Short-term incentive programme
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position based in our Corby location.
RS Group is an equal opportunity employer.
