Lorien
Senior Project Manager – WMS Transformation (Blue Yonder)
Location: London (hybrid) with travel to Milton Keynes
Contract: 6 months
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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.
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