Senior Project Manager - WMS Transformation (Blue Yonder) - #2100923

Senior Project Manager - WMS Transformation (Blue Yonder)

Location: London (hybrid) with travel to Milton Keynes
Contract: 6 months
Inside IR35

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.

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.

You'll operate at the heart of the programme, working across technology, business, and the System Integrator (Blue Yonder) to drive delivery outcomes.


Responsibilities:

• Provide hands-on leadership across technical and business teams, ensuring alignment and accountability
• Act as the primary point of coordination across:
  • Blue Yonder (SI)
  • Engineering teams
  • Solution Architects
  • Business SMEs and Analysts
• Drive governance and reporting uplift, including:
• Weekly status reporting
• Steering Committee preparation and delivery
• RAID management (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies)
• Manage vendor performance, ensuring deliverables are clearly defined, tracked, and aligned to commercial agreements
• Oversee delivery against financial and milestone targets, particularly within a T&M model
• Proactively identify and manage risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges
• Provide a "safe pair of hands" to senior stakeholders, bringing structure, clarity, and control

Requirements:

• Proven experience leading complex, enterprise-scale technology programmes or projects
• Strong experience managing System Integrators / third-party vendors, including holding delivery to account
• Ability to operate across technical and business domains, working closely with engineering, architecture, and functional teams
• Demonstrable experience building and managing integrated delivery plans in hybrid (waterfall + agile) environments
• Strong governance, risk, and financial management capability
• Track record of bringing structure, control, and clarity into complex delivery environments
• Confident stakeholder engagement at all levels, including Steering Committee / senior leadership

Nice to Have:

• Experience with supply chain, logistics, or WMS implementations
• Exposure to Blue Yonder (JDA) or similar platforms
• Background in retail or large-scale transformation programmes

To apply for this positon please submit your CV.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.