Job reference: TTX-000061
Salary: Competitive plus bonus and benefits
Business Unit: Tech & Transformation
Location: Business Centre - Vicar Lane Office
Closing date: 23/05/2025

Job Description

IT Project Manager

FGH Business Centre 66-70 Vicar Ln, Bradford BD1 5AJ

Hybrid flexibility: 2 office days per week

Are you a dedicated IT Project Management professional looking for a new opportunity to elevate your career?

Are you passionate about the driving the successful delivery of IT project initiatives?

Now is a fantastic time to join our Technology and Digital Team as we embark on an exciting and ambitious transformation programme to modernise our digital capabilities and optimise and enhance our customer journey.

Working collaboratively with a team of Project Managers and Business Analysts, you will be responsible for managing the successful end-to-end delivery of IT projects, working to stakeholder requirements and ensuring budget and quality targets are met.

Innovation is key as we look for new ideas which will improve the customer experience and our business processes.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Solution Delivery

  • Lead, or contribute to the initial definition and impact assessment and estimation of project concepts and ideas.
  • Ensure successful project delivery from initiation through to closure, to agreed FGH standards; guidelines; processes.

Business Analysis

  • Working closely with a team of stakeholders, to facilitate business design activities including business requirements gathering and definition of As-Is and To-Be processes.

Relationship Management

  • Manage project and service stakeholders, ensuring effective and timely communication, realistic expectations and displaying a positive ‘can do’ attitude.
  • Manage third party suppliers ensuring a quality, value for money service and maintaining effective relationships.

Personal

  • Maintain a good awareness of general Project Management trends & developments.
  • Manage and motivate project teams ensuring effective performance management, training and coaching.
  • Contribute to the overall management of the Transformation Function; in a collaborative manner, accepting additional responsibility for specific management activities or leading “ad hoc” management tasks.

Best Practice

  • Proactive contribution to continuous improvement of both the IT Function and the organisation as a whole.
  • Maintain consistent, accurate plans covering schedule, cost and resource, providing timely progress and performance reporting.
  • Support the business in defining and maintaining best practise governance and project methodologies.
  • Champion the use of both agile or waterfall.
  • To be committed to good outcomes for customers at all times
  • Ensure compliance with all applicable UK and local regulations, Company Policies and FCA Conduct Rules.


ABOUT YOU

Essential

  • Basic user of Word, Excel, able to set up tables, spreadsheets, graphs etc
  • Basic commercial understanding of business and retailing.
  • Previous role held, work placement or part time role in a commercial or retail environment.


Communication & Leadership

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to engage effectively at all levels, both internally and with 3rd parties.
  • Management of cross-functional, multi-disciplined personnel (matrix), displaying leadership, motivational and coaching skills.
  • Flexible and proactive approach to change, encouraging innovation and presenting change positively.
  • Strategic thinking skills, able to place Transformation activity in an organisational context.


Technical Knowledge

  • Strong planning, analytical and reporting skills, able to assimilate complex information and present recommendations.
  • Awareness of business analysis best practises.
  • Confident and proficient in the application of structured project management methods, tools and techniques with a recognised PM qualification such as APMG Agile PM, APM Project Management, Prince 2.
  • Practical experience across Project & Software Development Lifecycles (Agile/Hybrid/Waterfall) and associated tools; techniques; methods.
  • Broad awareness of Project Management and general Information Technology capabilities concepts and trends.


Desirable

  • Intermediate to Advanced Excel user. Basic competence in use of a database package such as Access or more advanced.
  • Good understanding of retailing, markets, customer groups.
  • 12 Months plus experience in a commercial environment.






ABOUT US: FGH DIGITAL

For over 100 years, Freemans has been at the forefront of home shopping, delivering quality products and exceptional service. We’ve accepted the challenge to transform our business into a modern, digital-first retailer.

With a rich heritage and an eye on the future, we are a forward-thinking, tech-driven online retail business, making fabulous fashion and stylish homewares accessible and affordable for everyone.

Based in West Yorkshire and part of the OTTO group – one of the world’s largest online retail organisations, Freemans Grattan Holdings (FGH) is the home of familiar brands such as Freemans, Grattan, Kaleidoscope, and Curvissa.

WHAT WE OFFER YOU

FLEXIBILITY

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working options to help you achieve a healthy work – life balance. Our full time head office colleagues work a minimum of 2 days per week in the office, allowing the perfect balance between collaborative in-person team work and the flexibility to work from home.

TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT

Turning your job into a career is a real passion for us and our development programmes will enable you to grow in role.

We offer clear career pathways that will show you the way, outlining the skills, behaviours and knowledge needed to perform at the next step.

We invest in our colleagues, giving them all the opportunity to progress. Our inspired leadership programme is aimed at equipping our future leaders to coach, develop, manage change and maintain situational awareness.

INCLUSIVITY

As a business, we depend on a fusion of identities, characteristics, backgrounds, and cultures to fully appreciate our people and our customers. Freemans has a long-standing commitment to ensuring fairness and balance.

Our company is an inclusive organisation where everybody can make the most of their talent and abilities. Our pay, reward, and progression approach is based solely on fairness and merit.

BENEFITS
We firmly believe that we should reward our brilliant people with extensive benefits to help them stay healthy, relax and re-energise, have fun, manage the day-to-day and plan for the future. Here are just some of our great benefits:

  • Competitive salaries and annual bonus scheme
  • 29 days holiday
  • Healthcare cash plan
  • Competitive pension scheme
  • Life assurance
  • Paid paternity and maternity leave
  • Incredible staff discounts
  • Subsidised Canteen

Ready to apply?

If you’re excited about this opportunity and want to join FGH, click apply now to send us your application.

Further information

About Us – Freemans Grattan Holdings

If you have any questions please contact our Resourcing Manager, Katie Thompson: katie.thompson@fgh-uk.com

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