Project Controller

John Lewis Partnership; Darwen; On-site; GBP 29,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Project Controller to join their Contract team. This role involves managing customer orders and ensuring high-quality project delivery. You will be responsible for planning, organizing, and overseeing projects from start to finish, while providing exceptional service to clients. The ideal candidate will have experience in textiles or a related field, strong communication skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. Join a company that values work-life balance and offers flexible working options, making a meaningful impact in the lives of customers.

Qualifications

• Experience in textiles, window coverings, or home furnishings is essential.
• Strong communication and organization skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Manage projects from initial enquiry to installation sign off.
• Provide customers with project plans and updates.

Skills

Project Management

Communication Skills

Time Management

Attention to Detail

Numeracy and Literacy

Ability to Work Under Pressure

Tools

ACE (quotation system)

Google Suite

Job description

About the role

At a glance

Salary range - Salary starting from £28,800 per annum

Contract type - Permanent role

Work Pattern - 38.75 hours per week, Monday to Friday core hours

Location - Herbert Parkinson

About the role

In this role, you would be a member of the Contract team. The contracts team is responsible for the project management of customer orders, which includes planning, organisation and delivery of the contract businesses projects. The team takes collective responsibility for delivering a high quality end to end customer experience.

The Project Controller has a fundamental role in managing projects from initial enquiry to installation sign off. Seeking to continuously develop the customer's accounts that you are allocated and take responsibility for providing them with an exceptional end to end service that you would expect from the John Lewis Partnership. You would provide your customers with project plans and updates of these as required so that projects can be monitored practically and financially. Place orders for the raw materials, finished goods and services required for each project and ensure that the controls established for purchasing of raw materials and finished goods are observed. You would also book and manage the employed and sub-contracted fitting team, in conjunction with the other Partners that use the same resource, to maximise the efficiency of the fitting team for all concerned.

Essential skills you’ll need

• Previous experience working in textiles, window coverings, home furnishings or an equivalent industry.
• Highly numerate and literate and keen to learn about project management.
• Good verbal and written communication skills with internal and external stakeholders.
• Effective time management and organisation skills.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to work well in high pressure environments.

Desirable skills

• Experience using systems ACE (quotation system) and Google suite.

Next Steps

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Important points to note:

It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays.

We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.