Project Manager - Projects Blue Yonder

About The Role We’re looking for a Merchandising Project Manager within our Commercial Team to work on a strategically important project that will see all categories affected, requiring detailed range analysis and planogram changes to be made across more than 200 categories per store. The purpose of the Merchandising function is to drive sales and reduce costs with a customer centric focus on availability - enabling the delivery of the right range, in the right space, for every product. Merchandisers are specifically responsible for creating, delivering and maintaining a portfolio of planograms that support commercial and corporate strategies - and therefore the project will require extensive knowledge of micro space planning, merchandising systems, and category review/range analytics. Whilst working in the Merchandising team, your sole focus will be on managing the project, working with a variety of stakeholders to ensure the seamless integration of the new Merchandising system. This will include ensuring that all deliverables are met in full and on time, issues are escalated with resolutions offered, and that stakeholders are kept informed with timely updates on project progress. This role will be on a fixed term contract for 18 months.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Successful delivery of the project, end to end - on time and in full.
• Responsible for a small team of Specialists who will be supporting the project through user acceptance testing.
• Ownership of large elements of the project, including planning and timelines aligned to delivery expectations.
• Report writing and provision of frequent updates.
• Issue escalation and provider of resolution possibilities.
• Senior stakeholder management, building a solid network of relationships to guide and support project delivery.
• Utilising third party experts in line with the project plan to maintain delivery momentum.
• Understanding key processes and ways of working, ensuring best fit within the new system environment.

This role is based at our fantastic head office in Bradford. Boasting an on-site restaurant, coffee shop, convenience and sample store, prayer room, free parking and regular company-wide events and promotions. Ideally, applicants will live within a reasonable distance of our office. We’ve built an incredibly diverse business, and we’re working hard to make sure we truly represent the communities we serve. One of the best things about working with so many different people is having the opportunity to listen, learn and connect with lots of different views, perspectives and beliefs.

For this role, we’re looking for someone who has:

• A detailed knowledge of the Retail industry.
• Strong Retail systems knowledge and abilities, including micro space planning software and Supply Chain systems.
• A sound understanding of commercial ways of working and required data and subsequent analysis to enable robust decision making.
• Ability to influence, negotiate and arbitrate with confidence, allowing sound decision making whilst maintaining good working relationships.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including the ability to build a wide network of collaborative relationships across multiple business areas and levels.
• Strong team leader with an autonomous work ethic, able to manage competing priorities.
• Strong data skill set with merchandising systems, and excellent presentation skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong time management and multi-tasking skills.
• Broad merchandising experience in the Grocery retail sector.
• Experience of inventory management and range ownership through range change/category review processes.

About The Team At Morrisons, we're the single biggest food manufacturer in the UK, and the only retailer to operate our own processing sites. Which means we're not just responsible for keeping our shelves stocked - we need to stock our manufacturing sites, too. As a true one-of-a-kind business, we curate, arrange and buy everything from raw materials like flour and meat to the products our customers pop in for every day. We negotiate prices and make sure we're able to sell as much as we can. We look at product packaging and quality to help us decide where products will sit in our stores. And when you remember that each category is worth a percentage of our overall £12billion turnover from supermarket sales alone, the impact of each buying team is huge. We work in embedded business teams, so our Buyers sit with their supply chain, finance and technical counterparts, working alongside each other to make decisions and take action quickly. We even have joint targets so that we're unified in our mission to serve our customers.

About The Company 15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus 10% for two friends/family members Car allowance Annual bonus scheme Generous holiday entitlement Company pension contributions Private healthcare Perks with over 850 retailers We're Foodmakers and Shopkeepers and together, we make Morrisons. We’re the only UK retailer with our own manufacturing business spread across 18 sites, not to mention nearly 500 stores, we’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part. So, whether you want to make the freshest food, sell it, or join us in our head office, we’d love to meet you…