Senior Project Manager
Skills
About the role
About The Role
We are looking for an experienced, organised and outcome-driven leader to take ownership of planning, execution, and governance of complex, cross-functional change initiatives across the organisation. As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead critical projects that impact multiple areas of the business, bringing structure, pace, and clarity to delivery.
You will act as a trusted partner to senior stakeholders, aligning initiatives with business objectives, managing interdependencies, and driving delivery excellence. This role requires a delivery focused mindset, strong stakeholder influence, and experience running projects within fast-paced environments.
This role is based at Barton-upon-Humber with the option of hybrid working, up to 2 days per week from home.
What Wren offer:
Life Assurance after 2 years’ service
Access to Benenden health and discount platform after 1 years of continuous service
Staff discount on purchasing a kitchen/bedroom after 1 year of continuous service
Eye Care Vouchers
Refer a Friend Scheme
Free onsite gym
Main Responsibilities:
Lead the end-to-end delivery of high-impact change initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals and operational readiness.
Own the project schedule and scope
Proactively identify and mitigate risks, issues, and blockers; escalate strategically
Facilitate progress updates, stand-ups, lessons learned, workshops, and planning sessions as needed to keep work on track.
Engage with Stakeholders
Maintain clear documentation throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Work with leads across business and IT to align dependencies, capacity, and sequencing of work.
Coordinate across internal and third-party teams where delivery relies on external inputs or partnerships.
In addition to any other duties, as a responsible person you must ensure that you have read, understood and adhere to polices and procedure relating to Health and Safety, and your responsibilities located in the Integrated Management System (IMS) Responsibilities document.
About You
Desired Skills and Knowledge:
Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional projects or programmes in an IT or digital environment.
Excellent organisation and communication skills, with the ability to engage confidently across stakeholders at all levels including C suite.
Strong understanding of delivery frameworks such as Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid models
Skilled at using tools such as project plans, action trackers, RAID logs, and dashboards to support clear, structured delivery.
Excellent communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills; able to bring clarity and momentum in complex stakeholder landscapes.
Proficient in Microsoft Office tools and delivery tooling such as Jira, Confluence.
About The Company
At Wren we’re passionate about all things kitchens, and now bedrooms too! We are the largest kitchen retailer in the UK. We’re a business that simply doesn’t stand still!
As well as world class training on our products, systems and sales processes, you’ll enjoy working in an industry-leading work place for a business that’s twice been voted the UK’s Number 1 Place to Work on Indeed. That’s on top of amazing benefits including uncapped commission and exceptional opportunities to progress your career across our company.
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