[Hiring] Project Manager @RS Group

Role Description

This is a remote role, offering the flexibility to work virtually from anywhere within the UK. The opportunity involves providing project management leadership across IS&T supply chain delivery, ensuring technology projects are shaped, planned, and delivered to agreed scope, time, cost, quality, and business outcomes.

• Manage supply chain technology and process change from initiation through to implementation, operational transition, and closure.
• Work closely with supply chain stakeholders, technology teams, suppliers, and third-party delivery partners.
• Support initiatives across warehouse management, order management, transport management, conveyor control, ERP integration, middleware, site migrations, and supplier-led delivery.
• Bring structure, clarity, and control across business and technology workstreams while maintaining stakeholder confidence and delivery pace.
• Travel to RS locations and supplier meetings may be required for site engagement, migrations, workshops, or operational readiness activity.

Qualifications

• Proven project management experience delivering supply chain, logistics, warehouse, fulfilment, distribution, or enterprise technology projects.
• Experience managing third-party, public-facing, or enterprise-grade technology implementations across multiple locations.
• Good understanding of supply chain technology environments, including Warehouse Management Systems, Order Management Systems, Transportation Management Systems, Conveyor Control Systems, and ERP integration.
• Strong project governance capability, including planning, RAID management, dependency management, budget tracking, change control, reporting, and project closure discipline.
• Experience working with suppliers, systems integrators, managed service providers, or technology partners.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate technical solutions into clear business language.
• Good problem-solving skills, with the ability to see the bigger picture and get things done in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks, assign and monitor work activities, meet deadlines, and produce timely project reporting.
• Experience using project management and collaboration tools such as Planview, Jira, Confluence, Teams, and Microsoft Office.

Requirements

• Take responsibility for the definition, documentation, and successful completion of supply chain technology projects from initiation through to closure.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, including timelines, milestones, dependencies, assumptions, resource needs, budgets, risks, and quality plans.
• Use Planview and agreed governance tools to maintain accurate plans, RAID logs, status reporting, forecasts, project artefacts, and decision records.
• Coordinate internal and external stakeholders across supply chain operations, IS&T, architecture, SAP/ERP, integration, data, warehouse/site teams, and third-party suppliers.
• Manage project resources, revenue costs, and capital costs against agreed project budgets.
• Ensure appropriate change control is in place and used to assess impacts on cost, timescale, scope, quality, and resource needs.
• Lead one or more project teams, allocating and monitoring tasks, supporting delivery performance, and keeping teams aligned to project objectives.
• Act as the liaison between customer and supplier organisations, enabling clear and efficient communication across project phases.
• Evaluate and make recommendations on technical or delivery options in line with RS Group technology strategies, operational needs, and business outcomes.
• Ensure projects are formally closed, reviewed, and transitioned into BAU, capturing lessons learned and improvement actions.

Benefits

• Financial: pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme).
• Wellbeing: medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday/paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership.
• Lifestyle: transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts.
• Spotlight: our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values.

Company Description

At RS, we are making amazing happen for a better world. As a global product and service solutions provider, we help industrial customers operate more efficiently and sustainably. Operating in 33 markets, we support around one million customers worldwide with more than 875,000 stocked products, access to over five million additional products, and a range of service solutions designed to help businesses thrive.

• More than 8,500 colleagues around the world bring technical expertise, digital innovation, and a customer-first mindset to everything we do.
• Guided by our values – We are one team, We deliver brilliantly, We do the right thing, and We make every day better.
• Creating an environment where our people can grow, contribute, and make a meaningful impact.