Assistant Project Manager

Mi Hub Ltd; Hemington; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mi Time Policy

25 days + BH

Death in Service

ESG Policy

Hybrid working

Wellbeing program

Job summary

Mi Hub Ltd in Castle Donington is seeking an organised and proactive Assistant Project Manager to support the successful launch of new products. You will coordinate cross-functionally, maintain project documentation and manage critical paths to ensure timely launches.

The role focuses on leading customer mobilisation, planning logistics to order release, and delivering clear project plans for selected customer groups.

Qualifications

• Competent in MS Office inc Excel V lookups and formula creation.
• Understanding of critical paths creation and management principles.
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Highly organised with ability to multi task.
• Good understanding and use of critical path tools such as Microsoft Project.
• Proven track record of managing projects.
• Textile/clothing end-to end supply chain experience.

Responsibilities

• Project planning and management
• Reporting and Stakeholder Management

Skills

MS Office

Excel

Critical Path

Microsoft Project

Project Management

Communication

Textile Supply Chain

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

We are seeking an organised and proactive Assistant Project Manager to support the successful launch of new products, based in Castle Donington

Mi Hub's mission is simple: uniform solutions made easy.We have great ambitions: to show the world that uniforms can look great, feel great and do great things for the planet. We're proud of our family of brands, their customers and innovations so far, but we're still growing! We need more amazing people who share our values and ambitions to join the next, most exciting, part of our journey.

Job Overview - salary £35k

To support the delivery of NPD projects, working cross functionally to manage weekly meeting schedules, maintaining project documentation and critical paths.

L ead the customer mobilisation phase, covering all planning elements from logistics to order release.

Responsible for developing project plans to deliver the launch of new products for specified customer groups.

Lead and maintain short and long term pick data volumes to enable logistics resource planning and delivery.

Job Purpose

The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment, with strong organisational and communication skills to co-ordinate NPD projects and work effectively with teams across the business. They will be confident managing project plans, maintaining accurate documentation and tracking critical paths to ensure successful product launches. The ability to lead customer mobilisation, co-ordinating activities from logistics through to order release, is essential, alongside strong planning skills to manage short- and long-term pick volumes and support effective logistics resource planning.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Project planning and management

• Manage the diarising of cross functional project meetings.
• Develop and manage project plans for allocated customer groups.
• Identify and escape project risks.
• Develop mitigation plans to realign projects to plan.
• Lead pick data planning with the Logistics team to manage the specific activity and team resource allocation.

Reporting and Stakeholder Management

• Track project performance, progress through milestones and report on risks.
• Manage and maintain all project documentation comprehensively.
• Maintain a rolling 12 month logistics activity report - detailing short and long term pick / volume requirements by week, month and quarter.
• Develop and manage the customer mobilisation phase of all projects, aligning cross functional departments to meet deliverables.
• Ensure roll out data validation and order release to schedule.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

• Competent in MS Office inc Excel V lookups and formula creation.
• Understanding of critical paths creation and management principles.
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Highly organised with ability to multi task.
• Good understanding and use of critical path tools such as Microsoft Project.
• Proven track record of managing projects.
• Textile/clothing end-to end supply chain experience.

Life Working at Mi Hub - What we can offer you!

Our people are at the heart of our business. At Mi Hub, we know how hard our people work to achieve our business goals and keep our customers at the heart of our work.

• Mi Time Policy (after full training is completed) - Finish early on a Friday (3pm!), flexi your time and build up an extra half days annual leave per month. Also, grab a free tea and coffees whenever you are in the office.
• Annual leave - 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays increasing to 27 days plus bank holidays when you get to 5 years' service. If this isn’t enough, we provide the ability once a year for employee to buy extra annual leave.
• 3x death in service life insurance scheme should the worst happen in your employment with us.
• Celebrating service, we offer long service awards to celebrate continued employment.
• EAP (employee Assistance Program) covering support for mental health and well-being.
• Employee engagement (survey or Mi Forum) – we care about our colleagues' opinions.
• Social calendar driven by our desire to raise funds for local and national charities, supporting a number each year.
• We take huge pride in our ESG policy which includes our impact on the environment and ensuring our company is 'a great place to work'.

At Mi Hub we believe that the friendships and relationships you create while working together, helps make Mi Hub and our brand's who we are. Our people are our business.

We encourage an open, collaborative, and inclusive working environment. In the ever-changing world of employment, Mi Hub understands that all employees’ have different definitions of a work-life balance. We are passionate about ensuring flexibility is at the heart of our business which is why we have emphasis on our hybrid working policy, flexi-time policy, and a generous holiday package.

In return for everything you can bring, we can offer you an exciting, challenging role in a fast-growing and dynamic business, with customers all over the globe. We're sure you will have heard of lots of them! We also have a healthy rewards package that we are always adding to and improving, some great fundraising and volunteering opportunities to get stuck into and as many hot beverages as you can shake a stick at.Take a look at our reward page for more details.

Mi Hub is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

Mi Hub will keep your details for 13 months in accordance with our privacy policy, in case any other roles crop up that we think you'd be suitable for. If you'd like us to remove your details at any point, please contact the recruitment team on [e-mail].

Mi Hub operates a Preferred Supplier List for recruitment agencies and only accept candidate introductions from agencies we have specifically engaged in writing for a particular role. Any unsolicited CVs or contact from agencies not formally instructed on the role, will not be recognised and no fees will be payable. Should we engage with a candidate whose details were submitted speculatively in this manner, it will not constitute acceptance of terms, and no agency fees will be owed.