Technology Project Manager

Overview

We're Kingfisher, A team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. That's right, we're big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that's where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working, both of hours and location. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices, located in London, Southampton & Yeovil. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

As a Technology Project Manager, you will play a key role in delivering large-scale, cross-functional technology and business change initiatives in a fast-moving, international retail environment. You will lead projects that span multiple systems, countries and stakeholder groups, helping modernise our technology landscape while ensuring strong governance, financial control and delivery certainty.

This is a highly visible role where you will work with senior stakeholders, engineering teams and third-party partners to deliver measurable business value, improve customer and colleague experiences, and support Kingfisher's long-term digital and operational strategy.

What's the job?

• Support activity to establish the business case, with responsibility for planning and defining project scope
• Identify, plan, manage and select required skills and people, including third parties and suppliers, to deliver the required services and capabilities
• Ensure all deliverables meet required standards through effective management of project scope and plans, accurate and timely project and budget reporting, and by planning, identifying, assessing and managing risks, issues and dependencies
• Act as the first point of contact for project issues, ensuring timely resolution
• Ensure projects operate within the agreed governance framework
• Manage project finances, forecast accuracy and the management of change, recognising schedule, budget and scope impact
• Create delivery certainty and manage key stakeholders through effective communication, identifying key issues and providing actionable insight to enable effective decision making

Budget Responsibility

• Management of multiple projects depending on size and scale (typically 3-5 concurrent projects), ensuring alignment with Engineering Management
• Project budgets up to £4m

What you'll bring

• Strong technology delivery experience across the full project lifecycle
• Proven experience delivering projects across diverse technology areas
• Experience delivering significant technical and non-technical change
• Well-developed understanding of financial management processes and cycles, including forecasting, capitalisation and budgeting
• Strong planning capability with the ability to identify key dependencies across project activities
• Experience ensuring quality and governance of delivery
• Customer-focused mindset
• Experience working with project teams spanning multiple locations and countries, with the ability to motivate and manage remotely
• Comfortable dealing with high complexity of change within a fast-paced retail environment

Be Customer Focused - constantly improving our customers' experience

• We listen to our customers and colleagues
• We innovate products and experiences to stay ahead

Be Human - leading with purpose, humanity and care

• We do the right thing
• We invest in our people and build great teams

Be Curious - thrive on learning, thinking beyond the obvious

• We focus externally, globally and build the long term
• We experiment and share our learnings

Be Agile - building trust and empowering people to work with agility

• We act with pace, not perfection, role modelling 80/20
• We take risks, fail fast and adapt quickly

Be Inclusive - inspiring diverse teams to achieve together

• We celebrate difference as a strength
• We collaborate, breaking down silos

Be Accountable - owning the plan, delivering results and growth

• We focus on performance outcomes
• We prioritise and simplify for others

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here!

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible