Senior Project Manager - 12 month FTC
HybridBarnsley, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead strategic, cross-functional logistics, supply chain, and operational change projects from concept through to delivery and handover. Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, success measures, and governance requirements while developing detailed plans, milestone schedules, resource plans, and delivery roadmaps. Manage budgets, cost tracking, forecasts, risks, issues, dependencies, and mitigation strategies. Coordinate internal and external stakeholders, ensuring clear communication, timely decisions, and strong engagement throughout the project lifecycle. Oversee vendor, supplier, and contractor performance, including delivery quality, commercial control, health and safety, and compliance. Track project milestones, KPIs, benefits, risks, and overall performance with associated governance. Present clear, concise updates, recommendations, and escalations to senior leadership and project steering groups. Mentor and guide Project Managers and project team members, sharing best practice and raising delivery capability across the team. Collaborate with operations, engineering, IT, procurement, and finance teams to ensure projects are commercially robust, operationally viable, and strategically aligned. Drive continuous improvement across project delivery processes, tools, templates, and ways of working. Support change management, stakeholder readiness, operational transition, and post-project benefit realisation. Maintain strong project documentation, including plans, RAID logs, decisions, approvals, handover packs, and lessons learned logs. Willingness to travel up to 50%.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's in Business, Engineering, or related field
- Prior experience of project management
- Proven leadership in large-scale logistics projects
- Strong financial and risk management skills
- Proficiency in project management tools (e.g. MS Project)
- Excellent stakeholder and vendor management
- Experience in logistics, ecommerce, or supply chain
- Strong presentation and reporting skills
- Willingness to travel up to 50%
Desired Qualifications
- APM, PRINCE2 or similar certification preferred
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