Associate Project Manager

RS UK & Ireland; Corby; Remote; GBP 36,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

RS UK & Ireland is looking for an Associate Technology Project Manager to deliver small to medium IT projects remotely across the UK, with support from senior PMs.

The role offers a clear path to becoming a Project Manager and then a Senior Project Manager, with emphasis on governance, stakeholder engagement, risk management, and delivering on time.

You will work with cross-functional teams, manage resources and budgets, and travel within the UK as required.

Qualifications

• Experience managing projects, ideally third-party projects.
• Experience with supply chain or infrastructure projects.
• Ability to translate technical solutions for non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Define, document, and complete small to medium projects and workstreams.
• Monitor and control project plans, budgets, and resources.
• Lead project teams and motivate staff.
• Communicate with customers and suppliers across project phases.
• Ensure formal project closure and lessons learned.
• Evaluate technical options and make recommendations.
• Work within governance frameworks and PMO oversight.
• Travel across the UK for site migrations and supplier meetings.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Resource management

Communication

Job description

Location

This is a remote role, offering the flexibility to work virtually from anywhere within the UK.

Contract Type

Permanent

The Opportunity

As an Associate Technology Project Manager, you will be relatively new to the role of Project Manager with previous experience working with an IT environment. You will be responsible for delivering small to medium-sized projects or workstreams within larger projects, with the support and direction of more senior Project Managers. This role offers a pathway to becoming a Project Manager and subsequently a Senior Project Manager.

What You Will Be Doing

• Project Management: Define, document, and successfully complete small to medium-sized projects and workstreams within larger projects. Ensure realistic project, quality, and risk plans are prepared and maintained. Monitor and control team performance against plans.
• Resource Management: Monitor and control allocated human and material resources, associated revenue costs, and all capital costs against the project budget. Ensure a change control procedure is in place and actively used.
• Team Leadership: Lead one or more project teams, allocating and monitoring tasks, motivating staff, and supporting individual performance.
• Stakeholder Management: Act as the liaison between the Senior project manager, customer and supplier organizations, enabling effective and efficient communication. Manage internal and external stakeholders as necessary on all project phases.
• Project Closure: Ensure projects are formally closed and reviewed, capturing lessons learned and taking appropriate action.
• Technical Evaluation: Evaluate and make recommendations/decisions on technical options in line with organizational strategies.
• Governance: Work within the defined organizational governance framework, possibly under the oversight of a project/program management office.
• Travel: UK travel, including overnight stays, may be required to support site migrations and attend supplier meetings.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience: Previous experience managing projects, specifically third-party projects. Ideally, experience with supply chain or infrastructure-related projects.
• Technical Knowledge: Some experience of technology and technology delivery with a passion for delivery. Ability to translate technical solutions for non-technical stakeholders.
• Project Management: Good grounding in traditional project management governance practices. Experience managing small projects and workstreams.
• Communication: Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills. Ability to inspire and influence teams and senior executives alike.
• Soft Skills: Excellent negotiation skills, ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks, assign and manage work activities, meet deadlines, and develop project management reporting.
• Analytical Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication and analytical skills.

We Are RS

At RS, we are making amazing happen for a better world.

As a global product and service solutions provider, we help industrial customers operate more efficiently and sustainably. Operating in 33 markets, we support around one million customers worldwide with more than 875,000 stocked products, access to over five million additional products, and a range of service solutions designed to help businesses thrive.

What sets us apart is our people. More than 8,500 colleagues around the world bring technical expertise, digital innovation, and a customer first mindset to everything we do. Guided by our values – We are one team, We deliver brilliantly, We do the right thing, and We make every day better, we're creating an environment where our people can grow, contribute and make a meaningful impact.

Rewards

Our Reward Philosophy is designed to offer market competitive base salaries and provide all of our people the opportunity to participate in a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company.

Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offering provide the opportunity for us to recognise, reward and enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include:

• Financial - pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
• Wellbeing - medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership
• Lifestyle - transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts
• Spotlight – our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values