Senior Project Manager - WMS Transformation (Blue Yonder)
20 days ago
London
Senior Project Manager - WMS Transformation (Blue Yonder)Location: London (hybrid) with travel to Milton Keynes Contract: 6 monthsInside IR35 \n This role will be supporting a Retail client on a major Warehouse Management System (WMS) transformation programme, implementing Blue Yonder across their supply chain landscape. \n Having completed Discovery/Design, the programme is now moving into delivery phase, and they are looking for a Senior Project Manager to step in and bring strong leadership, planning, and governance across a complex, multi-party environment. \n You'll operate at the heart of the programme, working across technology, business, and the System Integrator (Blue Yonder) to drive delivery outcomes.Responsibilities: \n\n • Provide hands-on leadership across technical and business teams, ensuring alignment and accountability\n, • Act as the primary point of coordination across:\n \n, • Blue Yonder (SI)\n, • Engineering teams\n, • Solution Architects\n, • Business SMEs and Analysts\n \n, • Drive governance and reporting uplift, including:\n \n, • Weekly status reporting\n, • Steering Committee preparation and delivery\n, • RAID management (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies)\n \n, • Manage vendor performance, ensuring deliverables are clearly defined, tracked, and aligned to commercial agreements\n, • Oversee delivery against financial and milestone targets, particularly within a T&M model\n, • Proactively identify and manage risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges\n, • Provide a "safe pair of hands" to senior stakeholders, bringing structure, clarity, and control\n\n Requirements: \n\n • Proven experience leading complex, enterprise-scale technology programmes or projects\n, • Strong experience managing System Integrators / third-party vendors, including holding delivery to account\n, • Ability to operate across technical and business domains, working closely with engineering, architecture, and functional teams\n, • Demonstrable experience building and managing integrated delivery plans in hybrid (waterfall + agile) environments\n, • Strong governance, risk, and financial management capability\n, • Track record of bringing structure, control, and clarity into complex delivery environments\n, • Confident stakeholder engagement at all levels, including Steering Committee / senior leadership\n\n \n Nice to Have: \n \n\n • Experience with supply chain, logistics, or WMS implementations\n, • Exposure to Blue Yonder (JDA) or similar platforms\n, • Background in retail or large-scale transformation programmes\n\n \n \n To apply for this positon please submit your CV. \n \n \n Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.