Infrastructure Project Manager

Kingfisher; Southampton; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Project Manager to lead sophisticated IT infrastructure projects. In this role, you'll oversee diverse technology areas, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget. You'll engage with stakeholders, manage resources, and drive business change initiatives. This forward-thinking company values innovation and inclusivity, offering a supportive environment where your contributions can truly make a difference. If you're passionate about technology and project management, this is the opportunity for you to grow your career and impact the future of home improvement.

Benefits

Competitive benefits package

Flexible working hours

Career growth opportunities

Inclusive environment

Qualifications

• Experience in IT infrastructure and full project lifecycle is crucial.
• Exceptional communication skills and customer-focused approach.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple IT infrastructure projects with budgets from £20k - £4m.
• Manage project scope, plans, and deliverables effectively.

Skills

IT infrastructure experience

Project delivery

Communication skills

Financial management

Customer focus

Planning capability

Tools

SAP

Windows Server

Linux

VMware

Service Now

Office 365

Job description

Overview

We’re Kingfisher, a team made up of over 78,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

At Kingfisher, our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working hours. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

Responsible for delivering sophisticated IT infrastructure projects and supporting the delivery of business change initiatives across the Kingfisher Group. You'll be responsible for leading multiple projects depending on size and scale with project budgets from £20k - £4m.

What's the job?

• To support activity to establish the business case with responsibility for planning and defining the scope of the project
• To identify, plan, handle and select appropriate resources, including third parties and suppliers to deliver the required services
• To ensure all deliverables meet required standards through effective management of the project scope, project plans, through accurate and timely project/budget reporting and by planning, identifying, assessing and leading risks, issues and dependencies
• To run the day-to-day delivery of projects, act as the first point of contact for any issues, ensuring their timely resolution
• To ensure projects operate within the agreed Governance framework
• To lead project finances, forecast accuracy and the management of any changes recognising schedule, budget and scope impact
• To create certainty and handle key stakeholders through effective communication, identifying key issues and providing actionable insight to enable effective decision making

What you'll bring

• IT infrastructure experience including the full project lifecycle is crucial
• Shown experience of project delivery across diverse technology areas, e.g.:
• On-Premise, Cloud and/or hosted infrastructure
• SAP, Databases, ATG, Applications
• Windows server, Linux, VMware, Storage, Networks
• End-User devices, Windows OS, Office 365, Collaboration tools
• Active Directory, Identity, PAM, Security
• IT Service Management, Service Now, monitoring, asset management
• Experienced in delivering significant technical and non-technical change
• Well-developed understanding of financial management processes and cycles, including forecasting, capitalisation, budgeting, etc
• Strong planning capability and the ability to identify key dependencies across project activities
• Quality and governance of delivery
• Customer focused
• Have exceptional communication skills, both oral and written, and an ability to engage, connect and influence at all levels of the organisation

Be Customer Focused – constantly improving our customers’ experience

• We listen to our customers and colleagues
• We innovate products and experiences to stay ahead

Be Human – leading with purpose, humanity and care

• We do the right thing
• We invest in our people and build great teams

Be Curious – thrive on learning, thinking beyond the obvious

• We focus externally, globally and build the long term
• We experiment and share our learnings

Be Agile – building trust and empowering people to work with agility

• We act with pace, not perfection, role modelling 80/20
• We take risks, fail fast and adapt quickly

Be Inclusive – inspiring diverse teams to achieve together

• We celebrate difference as a strength
• We collaborate, breaking down silos

Be Accountable – owning the plan, delivering results and growth

• We focus on performance outcomes
• We prioritise and simplify for others

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here!

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.