Area Project Manager - UK & UP West

Aditya Birla Lifestyle Brands Limited; Uttarakhand; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Aditya Birla Lifestyle Brands Limited is seeking a project delivery professional to oversee the opening and renovation of retail stores across Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. You will manage cross-functional teams, align with brand strategy, and work with multiple vendors to ensure timely completion and brand consistency.

The role emphasizes strict timelines, vendor development, and maintaining high quality across store formats, including repair and maintenance activities.

Qualifications

• Managing cross-functional teams to deliver projects on time and within budget.
• Vendor development and management for store openings across regions.
• Ensuring adherence to brand look, feel, and store identity across franchises.

Responsibilities

• Open and renovate stores within the scheduled window using registered vendors.
• Coordinate with VM, Design, Landlord, Franchise, RBD, and multiple vendors; report progress.
• Prepare work schedules, site visit reports, checklists, and handover documents.
• Invite, vet, and process vendor estimates for purchase orders; target 39 days per project.
• Develop vendors per forecast and immediate needs; onboard new vendors as required.
• Ensure quality standards across stores; supervise repair and maintenance activity.
• Manage timelines to complete each project and address snag lists promptly.

Skills

Vendor management

Project management

Stakeholder coordination

Timelines

Job description

Job Purpose

To deliver the projects in alignment with Brand Business Strategy and trade team by managing cross-functional teams to fulfill the ultimate objective of delivering the projects on time and bdget including repair & maintenance of retail stores across all brands in Uttar Pradesh and Uttrakhand.

Key Challenges

Geographical conditions pose a challenge when stores have to be opened in remote locations.

Job Purpose

To deliver the projects in alignment with Brand Business Strategy and trade team by managing cross-functional teams to fulfill the ultimate objective of delivering the projects on time and bdget including repair & maintenance of retail stores across all brands in Uttar Pradesh and Uttrakhand.

Job Context & Major Challenges

Key Challenges

Geographical conditions pose a challenge when stores have to be opened in remote locations.

Travelling time forms a greater composition of total working hours.

Executing the stores with franchises vendors, which are new for every project without compromising the look and feel of the stores and identities. We have to educate all the different vendors for every project

Key Result Areas

KRA (Accountabilities) (Max 1325 Characters)

Supporting Actions (Max 1325 Characters)

KRA1 Store opening and renovation timeline WCD to HOTVM for COCO and COFO with only registered vendors

• Preparing work schedule and regular site visits and multiple and regular communication/ coordination with different stake holders like- VM, Design team, Landlord, Franchise, RBD team, multiple vendors, Ops team.
• Organizing project steering meetings and sharing the project reports. Completing all the documentations like site visit reports, checklists, hand over documents.
• Inviting estimates from vendors, vetting them and sending it to commercial team for PO creations. Target taken for projects completion is 39 days.

KRA2 Vendor Development

• Developing vendors as per the forecasted plan and immediate requirements.
• 2 new vendors as required in the Area.

KRA3 Quality Ensure standardized quality of work across stores.

KRA4 Repair & Maintenance Ensure that repair and Maintenance is carried out effectively and in timely manner.

KRA5 Timelines Schedule the completion of work for a particular project.

KRA6 Addressing - Snaglist Clearing all the snags within the given timelines.