About the job

Description

Gist is currently recruiting for a Project Manager on a full time Permanent basis, based at either at our Chineham site or fully remote.

The Project Manager will support by providing Project Planning, assist in defining project scope, goals, and deliverables as well as develop comprehensive project plans, including schedules, resource allocation, and budgets, whilst partnering cross-functionally across several teams, including the Food Logistics Transformation Programme Team and Logistics Senior Management Teams.

What’s in it for you as Project Manager:

• 20% M&S discount on most things from furniture, fashion and food.
• 20 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (rising with length of service).
• Discounted rates on healthcare cash plan.
• Attractive annual bonus scheme, based on M&S performance and personal objectives.
• Auto Enrolment Pension or competitive Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and life assurance (up to 4 times salary).
• Access to a wide range of wellbeing support – including our Employee Assistance Programme.
• A first-class welcome with a tailored induction and a wide range of training schemes to help with your learning and development.

Project Manager role details:

Salary: Up to £50K

Hours: 37.5 per week

Working pattern: Monday – Friday

Location: Chineham or remote based

Project Manager key accountabilities & responsibilities:

• Project Planning: Assist in defining project scope, goals, and deliverables. Develop comprehensive project plans, including schedules, resource allocation, and budgets.
• Project delivery ownership of key workstreams within the Logistics Transformation programme.
• Creation and support in project plan creation, helping to define scope, schedules and deliverables.
• Facilitate & co-ordinate communication across project stakeholders and leaders to ensure the project remains on track and any risk & issues are raised to the appropriate steering groups for resolution.
• Monitor and track project progress to ensure tasks are completed on time.
• Maintain the Programme’s project documentation in line with good project management practice, including appropriate minuting of actions, risks and issues.
• Assist in developing risk mitigation strategies and contingency plans.
• Support the adherence of the programme to good quality control processes to ensure the business case remains on track. Be able to identify and track down variances to the process and challenge or escalate appropriately.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of best practices and process improvements in project management.
• Maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders across the projects and programme, upholding M&S values and behaviours.

As Project Manager, the ideal candidate will have:

• Strong academic background (graduate level).
• Proven experience in a project management role or consulting background.
• Fluent in English (both oral and written).
• Demonstrate strong analytical, relationship management, and organizational skills with a proven track record of building positive working relationships.
• You'll be solution-focused, identifying problem areas and then creating plans to find resolutions.
• You'll have strong communication skills, in particular, good story-telling skills through presentations.
• Highly organized and efficient.
• Use of Excel and PowerPoint is essential, use of MS Projects is a plus.
• An appreciation of the Food retailing industry.
• An appreciation of Logistics & Supply Chains.

Why Gist?

At Gist we are united by our core values; with safety and people at the heart of everything do, we are progressive, accountable, collaborative, and ethical.

Our objective is to establish a performance-focused environment that is fair and inclusive, where everyone can develop, and connect meaningfully to their manager, the Gist vision, and M&S. We are fiercely protective of everyone’s health, safety, and wellbeing, and align firmly to M&S’s sustainability commitments in Plan A.

Gist will play an integral part in the M&S journey as it pushes boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring era. As part of the M&S group, there’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Join us and make an immediate impact.

Gist aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers, and suppliers. If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application.

We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment. If it’s meaningful to you, it’s important to us.