Project Manager

Wren Kitchens; Barton-upon-Humber; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life Assurance after 2 years’ service

Benenden health and discount platform

Staff discount on kitchen/bedroom

Eye Care Vouchers

Refer a Friend Scheme

Free onsite gym

Job summary

Wren Kitchens is seeking an organised, outcome-driven professional to own planning, coordination and tracking of change initiatives across the organisation. You will align across technical and business teams, manage dependencies, and keep stakeholders informed throughout delivery.

Based at Barton-upon-Humber with hybrid working options, you’ll drive progress and governance across projects. The role focuses on ensuring timely delivery, effective risk management, and clear communication while

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating and delivering change initiatives.
• Strong planning and coordination skills across teams.
• Ability to interpret technical and business information for diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules with milestones.
• Coordinate day-to-day delivery activity and track dependencies.
• Monitor timelines and escalate risks impacting outcomes.
• Facilitate stand-ups, retrospectives, and planning sessions to keep work on track.
• Engage stakeholders and ensure clear next steps and accountability.
• Document scope, plans, risks, decisions, and actions throughout delivery.
• Support governance including RAID logs and checkpoint reviews.
• Align dependencies and sequencing with business and IT leads.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication

Delivery frameworks

Stakeholder engagement

Meeting facilitation

Stakeholder management

Jira & Confluence

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

About The Role

We are looking for an organised and outcome-driven individual to take ownership of planning, coordinating, and tracking the successful delivery of change initiatives across the organisation. This role acts as the anchor for ensuring work progresses in line with agreed timelines, dependencies are managed, and stakeholders remain informed and engaged throughout the delivery lifecycle.

You will work across multiple functions, bringing together technical, business, and support teams to ensure that initiatives are delivered effectively, risks are managed, and progress is visible. This role is ideal for someone who excels at planning, coordination, and communication — and who enjoys keeping work moving.

This role is based at Barton-upon-Humber with the option of hybrid working.

What Wren offer

• Life Assurance after 2 years’ service
• Access to Benenden health and discount platform after 1 years of continuous service
• Staff discount on purchasing a kitchen/bedroom after 1 year of continuous service
• Eye Care Vouchers
• Refer a Friend Scheme
• Free onsite gym

Main Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules, ensuring alignment between teams, tasks, and milestones.
• Coordinate day-to-day delivery activity, tracking progress, dependencies, and blockers across teams.
• Monitor delivery timelines and escalate issues or risks that may impact agreed outcomes.
• Facilitate progress updates, stand-ups, retrospectives, and planning sessions as needed to keep work on track.
• Ensure the right people are involved at the right time, and that stakeholders are engaged, informed, and clear on next steps.
• Maintain clear documentation of scope, plans, risks, decisions, and actions throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Support teams in managing delivery governance — including reporting, RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), and formal checkpoint reviews.
• Work with leads across business and IT to align dependencies, capacity, and sequencing of work.
• Help ensure that completed work meets expectations, and support handover into live service or business operations where relevant.
• Coordinate across internal and third-party teams where delivery relies on external inputs or partnerships.

You must comply with all Health & Safety policies, procedures, and responsibilities outlined within the Integrated Management System

About You

Desired Skills and Knowledge

• Experience managing the coordination and delivery of initiatives or change projects
• Excellent organisation and communication skills, with the ability to engage confidently across stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong understanding of delivery frameworks such as Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid models, and when to apply each.
• Skilled at using tools such as project plans, action trackers, RAID logs, and dashboards to support clear, structured delivery.
• Comfortable facilitating meetings, resolving conflicts, and keeping a wide range of stakeholders aligned.
• Able to interpret technical and business information and communicate it in a way that suits the audience.
• Familiar with delivery tooling such as Jira, Confluence

About The Company

At Wren we’re passionate about all things kitchens, and now bedrooms too! We are the largest kitchen retailer in the UK. We’re a business that simply doesn’t stand still!

As well as world class training on our products, systems and sales processes, you’ll enjoy working in an industry-leading work place for a business that’s twice been voted the UK’s Number 1 Place to Work on Indeed. That’s on top of amazing benefits including uncapped commission and exceptional opportunities to progress your career across our company.