IS Project Manager

Kuehne+Nagel; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Kuehne+Nagel is seeking an experienced PM to lead IT/WMS projects within Contract Logistics in the UK. You will drive delivery, planning, and governance across cross-functional teams to ensure on-time, on-budget outcomes.

The role requires strong PRINCE2/APM/ITIL knowledge, stakeholder leadership, and the ability to align IT initiatives with business strategy. Expect UK travel and a collaborative, results-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading IT Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) projects.
• Strong understanding of project delivery methodologies (PRINCE2, APM, ITIL).
• Ability to align projects with wider business strategy and manage dependencies.
• Experience in multi-project resource planning and utilisation.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to translate requirements into practical solutions.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and relationship-building skills.
• Demonstrated leadership in developing teams and delivering outcomes.
• Governance skills to identify critical paths, risks, and interdependencies with UK travel as required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver Information Systems projects in line with KN policies, budgets, timelines and quality standards.
• Develop and maintain project documentation (PIDs, plans, stage gate collateral, status reports).
• Build cross-functional project teams and clearly define roles and responsibilities.
• Establish and monitor project plans, milestones, and corrective actions to ensure delivery.
• Manage budgets, resources, and financial tracking; report variances and forecast needs.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks and issues through governance and contingency planning.
• Govern project scope and change requests; ensure adherence to change control processes.
• Facilitate meetings and stage gate reviews with audit-ready records and KN IS standards.

Skills

WMS project delivery

PRINCE2/APM/ITIL

Business alignment

Resource planning

Commercial awareness

Stakeholder leadership

Team leadership

Governance & risk

Job description

It's more than a job

As part of the Contract Logistics team at Kuehne+Nagel, you will play a key role in designing, managing, and optimizing solutions that keep goods moving efficiently. Whether you’re leading a team, engineering processes, or driving projects, your work ensures that our customers’ products are stored, handled, and delivered with precision. From everyday essentials to seasonal items, what we do in Contract Logistics impacts businesses and communities around the world. At Kuehne+Nagel, your contribution goes far beyond the warehouse—it helps shape the flow of global trade.

How you create impact

• Lead the successful delivery of Information Systems projects, ensuring alignment with Kuehne+Nagel policies, standards, budgets, timelines, and quality expectations.
• Develop and maintain key project documentation, including Project Initiation Documents (PIDs), delivery plans, stage gate collateral, and status reports.
• Build and coordinate cross-functional project teams, clearly defining roles, responsibilities, and stakeholder engagement throughout the project lifecycle.
• Establish and manage project plans, tracking progress against agreed milestones and taking corrective action where required to ensure successful delivery.
• Manage project budgets, resource utilisation, and financial tracking, ensuring project costs are accurately recorded and controlled.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues through effective governance, contingency planning, and proactive stakeholder communication.
• Govern project scope and change requests, evaluating impacts on budget, timelines, and deliverables while ensuring adherence to formal change control processes.
• Facilitate project meetings, steering group updates, and stage gate reviews, maintaining complete audit-ready project records and ensuring compliance with KN IS standards.

What we would like you to bring

• Proven track record of successfully leading and delivering projects within an IT Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) environment.
• Strong understanding of project delivery methodologies, with PRINCE2, APM and ITIL experience or qualifications considered advantageous.
• Ability to align projects with wider business strategy, managing dependencies, priorities, and interrelated initiatives.
• Experience in resource planning and management across multiple projects, ensuring effective utilisation and delivery.
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to gather, interpret, and translate business requirements into practical solutions, including cost estimation.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to gain commitment at all levels.
• Demonstrated leadership capability, with experience developing teams, motivating colleagues, and driving successful project outcomes.
• Strong project governance skills, including the ability to identify and manage critical paths, risks, and project interdependencies, with flexibility to travel throughout the UK as required.

What's in it for you

Join Kuehne+Nagel and build your future with us. We believe in recognising and rewarding the commitment, expertise and passion our people bring every day. In return, you'll enjoy a competitive benefits package, including 26 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, with the opportunity to earn additional leave through length of service.
You'll also have access to our contributory Kuehne+Nagel pension scheme and our Route 2 Rewards programme, offering employee discounts, recognition initiatives, wellbeing resources and a dedicated wellbeing centre to support you both professionally and personally.
As a proud holder of the Gold Armed Forces Covenant Award, we are committed to being a forces friendly employer and actively welcome applications from service leavers, reservists and veterans. We recognise the valuable skills, experience and perspectives they bring to our business and are proud to support their transition into civilian careers.

Please be aware that by applying for this role, you are agreeing to participate in the employment screening process. This process will include criminal record checking and identity validation. This means that KN will ask successful applicants to provide certain information and documentation to enable these checks to be conducted.

Any appointment will then be strictly conditional upon, and subject to, the receipt of satisfactory results of these checks

Who we are

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.