More about the role

The Role:

We are looking for an Agile Project Manager to join our IT Delivery Team. You will have experience of working within a scaled agile environment and have coached and managed teams, working within a scaled agile framework.

Project Management

• Ensuring all project activity is managed in line with New Look standards and policies

• Adhering to the project management framework, tools, processes and reporting principles set out by the PMO

• Monitoring and managing costs, timelines and quality and taking action where these deviate from agreed tolerances

• Providing regular and accurate status reports to stakeholders and the business

• Ensuring risks, issues and assumptions are actively identified, documented in jira, and managed and to take appropriate resolving action where needed

• Ensuring key decisions are captured and actioned

• Managing project dependencies as well as impacts across multiple business units, solving problems as encountered and escalating when appropriate

• Participating in in-flight reviews and health checks, making recommendations and following up on implementation improvements

Project Delivery

• Host scrum ceremonies such as stand ups, refinements, backlog grooming, sprint planning & sprint retrospectives

Leading planning and accurately estimating costs, timescales and resource requirements for successful delivery

• Identifying and managing to the critical path

Utlising Jira to track key team metrics, such as velocity, sprint progress and backlog planning

Ensuring the team is aware and meeting Definition of Ready and Definition of Done

• Task managing the BA, ensuring business requirements are complete and reviewing the resulting functional and technical specifications to be certain that projects will meet the business and technical requirements

• Managing the relationship with suppliers and ensuring components are delivered in line with requirements

• Ensuring any blockers are removed

• Ensuring all required testing is performed in order to validate that the business requirements have been met by the delivered solution

• Managing the implementation and working with the business lead to ensure all required business change activities are completed

• Engaging with the IT Service Delivery & Digital Release Manager to prepare for sprint deliverables to be handed over and moved into production

• Working with the Digital Release Manager to facilitating the resolution of any serious defects

• Ensuring Sprints Retrospective actions are captured and implemented

Project Team Management

• Building and managing one or more small scrum teams

• Matrix managing other PMs, BAs, SAs, System Integrators and Testers where required

• Ensuring the teams are communicated with and informed at all times

• Providing leadership to the project team ensuring that team members are supported, motivated and contributing effectively

• Representing the project team, ensuring effective relationships are built and maintained with the business and managing expectations of all stakeholders

• Ensuring new recruits are appropriately selected and inducted

About you

Programme & Project Management

• Takes full responsibility for the definition, documentation and successful completion of complex projects, ensuring that realistic project, quality, change control and risk management processes are maintained

• Plans, directs and co-ordinates activities to manage and implement a project/programme from contract/proposal initiation to final operational stage

• Monitors and controls resources, revenue and capital costs against the project budget and manages expectations of all project stakeholders

• Ensures that realistic project, resourcing, budgeting and quality plans are prepared and maintained and provides regular and accurate reports to stakeholders as appropriate

• Ensures that project deliverables are completed within planned cost, timescale and resource budgets and are signed off

• Provides effective leadership to the project team, and takes appropriate action where team performance deviates from agreed tolerances

Supplier Management & Commercial

• Acts as a routine contact point between the organisation and suppliers

• Supports interactions with suppliers on requirements and resource forecasts

• Collects performance data and investigates problems

• Monitors and reports on supplier performance, customer satisfaction, and market intelligence

Why New Look?

The amazing people, the love of fashion, the 4pm Friday finishes – there are so many reasons to love working at New Look.

We offer training to support you and your career progression, so that you can be at your absolute best.

You’ll also receive these amazing benefits:

• 40% staff discount

• Monthly 25% off  privilege vouchers for family and friends to enjoy

• Quarterly sample sales

• Season ticket loans

Apply now to find out more.