Junior Project Manager (Home & Fragrance) 12 Month FTC

The White Company; Greater London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounts up to 50%

Holiday 25 days +

Pension scheme

Discretionary bonus

Private healthcare

Life assurance

Home working option

Learning and development

Job summary

The White Company is seeking a Junior Project Manager in the Home department to coordinate projects across Home & Fragrance, from brief to handover. You will manage critical paths, align with Buying, Design, Creative, QA, Sustainability, and other teams, ensuring timely decisions and progress.

This hands-on role suits someone with retailer/brand project coordination experience, capable of juggling multiple timelines and priorities while bringing teams together to deliver shared objectives.

Qualifications

• Experience in project coordination or administration within a retail, lifestyle or consumer brand or agency.
• Experience delivering projects from brief through design and approvals to completion.
• Excellent organisational skills with ability to manage multiple projects across stages.
• Experience maintaining critical paths and dependencies between teams.
• Clear, confident communication across functions including Buying, Design and Creative.
• Ability to chase deadlines, clarify responsibilities and escalate issues when needed.
• Strong attention to detail in managing project information, feedback, actions and approvals.
• Proactive, practical approach with adaptability to changing priorities in a busy department.

Responsibilities

• Establish and coordinate the packaging critical path and project plans across Home & Fragrance, tracking milestones to final handover.
• Oversee day-to-day progress across a varied portfolio of projects and initiatives; ensure actions and deadlines remain visible.
• Act as central coordinator with Creative and other stakeholders to clarify responsibilities, dependencies and deadlines.
• Help ensure project briefs have clear objectives, scope, deliverables, owners and timings for teams to move forward.
• Schedule packaging reviews and sign-offs; capture feedback and track actions for stakeholder approvals.
• Coordinate timely provision of information, specifications and other requirements for handovers.
• Maintain project trackers and shared files, providing visibility of progress and decisions.
• Flag risks and delays early and suggest next steps to management.

Skills

Project coordination

Project administration

Organisational skills

Stakeholder communication

Deadline management

Attention to detail

Proactive attitude

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Our Role

As Junior Project Manager within the Home department, you will coordinate multiple projects across Home & Fragrance department, helping to deliver them on time, from initial brief through to approvals and final handover.

You will establish and maintain clear critical paths, bringing together key stakeholders across Buying, Design, Creative, QA, Sustainability and other relevant teams. You will keep projects moving by ensuring clear ownership, timely decisions and visibility of deadlines, dependencies and progress, with each specialist team retaining responsibility for its deliverables.

This is a hands‑on role suited to someone with project coordination experience within a retailer or brand. Highly organised and proactive, you will be comfortable managing multiple timelines, balancing competing priorities and bringing people together to deliver shared objectives.

What you'll be doing

• Establish and coordinate the packaging critical path: build and maintain packaging project plans across Home & Fragrance categories, tracking key milestones from initial brief through design development, artwork, reviews and approvals to final handover, ensuring alignment with supplier deadlines.
• Coordinate multiple projects: oversee day-to-day progress across a varied portfolio, which may include product, packaging and departmental initiatives, ensuring actions are followed through and deadlines remain visible.
• Manage stakeholder communication: act as a central coordination point within Home & Fragrance, working closely with Creative and other key stakeholders to ensure everyone understands their responsibilities, dependencies and deadlines.
• Coordinate project briefs: help ensure projects begin with clear objectives, scope, deliverables, owners and timings, with the information needed for teams to move forward.
• Organise packaging reviews and sign-offs: schedule meetings, capture feedback, and track actions to ensure the right stakeholders review and approve work at the appropriate stages.
• Track delivery and handovers: coordinate the timely provision of information, specifications and other project requirements, ensuring teams have what they need to complete their work and hand over agreed deliverables.
• Maintain clear project records: keep project trackers and shared files up to date, providing visibility of progress, outstanding actions, decisions and approvals.
• Identify risks and delays: flag missing information, competing priorities, resource constraints or changes to scope early, escalating to your manager with suggested next steps.
• Improve ways of working: help develop consistent briefing templates, critical paths and reporting processes to support effective project delivery across the Home & Fragrance department.

What skills & experience you’ll need

• Experience in project coordination, project administration or a similar role within a retail, lifestyle or consumer brand, or a relevant agency.
• Experience in project delivery, from initial brief and planning through development, reviews, approvals and completion. Experience within Home, product development or packaging would be an advantage.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple projects across different categories and stages of delivery.
• Experience of maintaining critical paths, tracking milestones and managing dependencies between teams.
• Clear, confident communication skills and the ability to build effective relationships across different functions, including Buying, Design and Creative.
• Confidence in following up on deadlines, clarifying responsibilities and escalating issues when needed.
• Strong attention to detail when managing project information, feedback, actions and approvals.
• A proactive, practical approach, with the ability to adapt to changing priorities and develop within a busy Home & Fragrance department.

What we’ll offer you

At The White Company, we value our employees for always going the extra mile for every one of our customers; we reward this with great benefits and competitive salaries.

• Discount -Up to 50% discount and access to regular Sample Sales
• Holiday - 25 days rising to 28 with length of service
• Holiday Buy – opportunity to buy up to 5 days holiday
• Pension Scheme - enrolled in our Group Personal Pension schemes upon joining the business.
• Bonus - In addition to our competitive salaries, all our employees are entitled to join a discretionary bonus scheme (based on policy eligibility)
• Wagestream Money Management app - access to Wagestream gives you power over your pay and supports financial wellbeing
• Continued Development – We offer structured support from our own in-house Learning and Development Hub
• Salary Sacrifice scheme for Electric vehicles (dependent on grade and meeting policy eligibility)
• Continued Development - Inclusion on our Leadership Development Programme (eligibility for contracts of 6 months plus Grade D & E roles only)
• Continued Development – We offer structured support from our own in-house Learning and Development Hub
• Private Healthcare with additional Babylon Digital Healthcare (based on contract duration)
• Life Assurance
• White City House (Soho House Group)Tenants Membership at a discounted rate, offering access to facilities in the House

Additional Benefits

• Fruit basket daily
• Tea and coffee provided
• Working from Home - option to work from home on Mondays and Fridays
• Social - Christmas party/social events throughout the year
• Seasonal Sample Sales
• Volunteer Day - with a charity of your choice
• Great Location - Close to transport links - over ground Shepherds Bush station /underground White City & Wood Lane stations. Westfield shopping centre with shops restaurants/bars/cinema and gyms

Our Equality Diversity and Inclusion statement of commitment

At The White Company we are committed to creating an inclusive culture that welcomes and celebrates a diversity of backgrounds and identities.

We are working together to ensure our environment is one where people can bring their authentic selves to work, where their contribution is valued, ability enhanced, and perspective appreciated. Where difference is respected, encouraged, and celebrated. Where you can feel you belong.

We are committed to an active Equality Diversity and Inclusion Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process.

We'd love you to join us on our journey.

Our Sustainability statement of commitment

We are committed to building a sustainable legacy that will enable a brighter future for people and our planet.’ We believe this should be reflected in everything we do.