Role: Digital Project Manager
Salary: Flexible & Fantastic Benefits
Location: Woking, Hybrid Working
Impact Food Group (IFG) is a leading UK-based school catering company. We focus on providing healthier food options to children and promoting a positive food culture among pupils. We work with primary, secondary and independent schools across the UK, offering high quality, nutritious meals that support better health and educational outcomes.
As an organisation we have 500+ sites, with continued growth year on year. The introduction of a Digital and Strategy department is testament to our ambition as we close out the initial implementation of best-in-breed software solutions for our core capabilities and move into an ‘innovation first’ approach to the industry. This role is a key position within that greenfield department.
What you will be doing
As the Digital Project Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the successful delivery of digital solutions, from initiation through to launch, ensuring projects are completed on time, within scope, and on budget.
Duties are as follows:
Develop and lead detailed delivery, change, and resource allocation plans for agile and waterfall phases of project delivery.
Manage hybrid project workflows, balancing Agile sprints with waterfall milestones
Understanding of digital development and technology approaches
Maintain clear communication with project stakeholders, including business leaders, data teams and users
Proactively manage project risks and issues, scope creep and team conflicts whilst documenting and tracking these to ensure resolution in a timely manner
Own and oversee project budgets and resource allocation and collaborate with enterprise teams to ensure optimal utilisation of people to achieve the shared objectives and goals
Coordinate testing, validation, UAT and sufficient user onboarding and training to ensure quality of project delivery and benefit realisation.
Lead the project and wider business through change via excellent stakeholder engagement, communication strategies, resistance management, training delivery, change readiness and performance measurement.
What we are looking for
Experience: 5+ years in Digital Project Management roles with suitable evidence of eCommerce, retail and general office solution delivery
Education: Formal qualification in project delivery frameworks and methodologies (Prince2 & APMP)
Data Platform and visualization delivery and best practices, CRM information exploitation and POS delivery experience all desirable
Strong familiarity with SDLC, Agile methodologies (Scrum & Kanban)
What We’d Love To Give You
Competitive salary
25 days paid annual leave plus bank holidays.
Company pension scheme.
Access to our extensive online Learning platform and development opportunities
An employee wellbeing platform.
IFG rewards for highstreets discounts.
Annual Summer Party with company awards.
Additional Details
IFG are committed to the safeguarding of children and our employees share this commitment. Successful candidates are required to undergo an enhanced DBS check, which we supply the cost for.
We are a committed equal opportunities employer - if you require any assistance for the interview process, please detail within your application. All information is kept confidential and in compliance with GDPR requirements