Project Manager

Associate Project Manager
Location: Hybird
RS Group is presently in search of an Associate Project Manager for a permanent role. In this position, you will assume responsibility for delivering projects of a similar nature within RS. This role offers an opportunity to gain experience working on progressively larger projects, with the ultimate goal of advancing to the position of Project Manager and eventually Senior Project Manager within RS.

What you’ll be doing

• Assume accountability for defining, documenting, and successfully executing small to medium-sized projects, under the guidance of Senior Project Managers. This involves collaborating with and overseeing internal and external stakeholders throughout all project phases.
• Develop and maintain realistic project, quality, and risk plans. Monitor and manage team performance against these plans, ensuring effective financial and project progress forecasting. Report findings as necessary.
• Supervise and manage allocated human and material resources, revenue costs, and capital costs against the project budget. Implement and utilize a change control procedure to assess the impact of project changes on costs, timelines, and resource requirements. Report any changes to project sponsors promptly.
• Lead one or more project teams, including task allocation, monitoring, staff motivation, and performance support.
•  Facilitate formal project closure and subsequent reviews, capturing lessons learned and implementing appropriate actions.
• Evaluate and recommend/decide on technical options in alignment with Whitbread's technical strategies.
• Operate within the established organizational governance framework, possibly under the oversight of a project/program management office.
• Serve as the primary liaison between customer and supplier organizations, facilitating effective communication channels.
• Occasional UK travel, including overnight stays, may be necessary to support site migrations and attend supplier meetings, with expenses reimbursed according to Company Policy.

About you
The ideal candidate for the Project Manager role should possess prior experience in change management, preferably within an IT setting, overseeing small projects or workstreams within larger projects, or managing a Project Office. Key qualifications and attributes include:

• Proven experience in managing projects, particularly with third-party involvement.
• Preferably, background in managing projects related to supply chain or infrastructure.
•  Familiarity with software-defined network rollouts.
• Strong understanding of traditional project management governance practices.
• Enthusiasm for technology and the ability to articulate solutions in a manner understandable to non-technical stakeholders.
•  Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, capable of motivating and influencing teams and senior executives alike.
• Track record of successfully managing small projects and workstreams.
• Excellent soft skills, including outstanding negotiation abilities.
• Capacity to handle multiple concurrent tasks, delegate and oversee work activities, meet deadlines, and produce project management reports promptly and effectively.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, along with strong analytical abilities.
   

The extras you’ll get

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including annual performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, private healthcare, in the UK&I, we’ve just introduced a number of new Family Friendly Policies including:​

• Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation​
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome​
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause​
•  Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery and gender confirmation surgery​
• Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all. 

We are RS

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.  ​

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.  ​

We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.  ​

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems.  ​

We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do. ​

Come and join us and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.​

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