IT Project Manager

Boots Technology team are looking for a dynamic and highly experienced Project Manager to lead delivery of our largest most complex projects as part of our transformation roadmap across our Retail and Supply chain technology platforms. This involves multiple interrelated programmes of work delivering new solutions and changes to the existing landscape across multiple domains. This transformation is critical for our growth agenda delivering a flexible technology landscape enabling future innovation and rapid delivery to meet customer and colleague expectations and experience. As a Project Manager, you will work alongside our product and business process teams seamlessly to deliver key technology projects within this transformation roadmap. This is an exciting time to join a collaborative innovative team and bring your expertise and experience to deliver the technology investments which drive our business forward. We place so much value on our Technology team – if you want to build a career that will keep developing with your skills, there's no better place to do it.

Key responsibilities:

• Co-ordinating all aspects of the project to ensure successful delivery of customer and business objectives
• Bringing together project team members from product, business and third-party organisations to build and deliver the project plan
• Collaborating and coordinating delivery across multiple Technology teams and platforms
• Leading the end-to-end project lifecycle, from design, planning, implementation, and evaluation of the projects
• Adhering to project management frameworks and standards within the team, including good financial governance
• Supporting the team to solve problems and remove blockers
• Energising and motivating the team to drive delivery of the plan in the most efficient and effective way
• Keeping stakeholders and senior management up to date on progress and escalating for help where necessary

What you'll need to have (our must haves):

• Experience managing large IT projects (multi million, multi year) end to end
• The ability to bring together project team members from across the business and third-party organisations to build and deliver the project plan
• Excellent planning skills across multiple teams and third parties and ability to gain their buy in to the plan
• Excellent people skills to bring the team together with one purpose and break down barriers between different parts of the organisation
• Experience of working with a Product team embedded with the Technology Delivery team
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with a strong ability to build relationships and influence
• Strong verbal, presentation and written communication skills
• You'll need to be resilient in the face of challenges, and support others within the team
• You'll need to be highly motivated and bought into the success of the team and able to energise and motivate the wider team
• Experience of delivery frameworks, both agile and waterfall including good financial governance
• The ability to troubleshoot, problem-solve and escalate issues as required

Rewards designed for you:

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• Flexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through HealthHero, our Employee Assistance Programme.

At Boots, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. As the heart of everything we do at Boots, with you, we change for the better.