Assistant Project Manager

Job Overview

• To support the delivery of NPD projects, working cross functionally to manage weekly meeting schedules, maintaining project documentation and critical paths.
• Lead the customer mobilisation phase, covering all planning elements from logistics to order release.
• Responsible for developing project plans to deliver the launch of new products for specified customer groups.
• Lead and maintain short and long term pick data volumes to enable logistics resource planning and delivery.

Job Purpose

The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment, with strong organisational and communication skills to co-ordinate NPD projects and work effectively with teams across the business. They will be confident managing project plans, maintaining accurate documentation and tracking critical paths to ensure successful product launches. The ability to lead customer mobilisation, co-ordinating activities from logistics through to order release, is essential, alongside strong planning skills to manage short- and long-term pick volumes and support effective logistics resource planning.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Project planning and management:

• Manage the diarising of cross functional project meetings.
• Develop and manage project plans for allocated customer groups.
• Identify and escalate project risks.
• Develop mitigation plans to realign projects to plan.
• Lead pick data planning with the Logistics team to manage the specific activity and team resource allocation.

Reporting and Stakeholder Management:

• Track project performance, progress through milestones and report on risks.
• Manage and maintain all project documentation comprehensively.
• Maintain a rolling 12 month logistics activity report – detailing short and long term pick / volume requirements by week, month and quarter.
• Develop and manage the customer mobilisation phase of all projects, aligning cross functional departments to meet deliverables.
• Ensure roll out data validation and order release to schedule.

Customer Mobilisation:

• Develop and manage the customer mobilisation phase of all projects, aligning cross functional departments to meet deliverables.
• Ensure roll out data validation and order release to schedule.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

Essential

• Competent in MS Office inc Excel V lookups and formula creation.
• Project management exposure.
• Understanding of critical paths creation and management principles.
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Highly organised with ability to multi task.

Desirable

• Good understanding and use of critical path tools such as Microsoft Project.
• Proven track record of managing projects.
• Textile/clothing end-to end supply chain experience.
• Senior stakeholder management exposure.

Life Working at Mi Hub

Our people are at the heart of our business. At Mi Hub, we know how hard our people work to achieve our business goals and keep our customers at the heart of our work.

• Mi Time Policy (after training is complete)– minimum 3 days in the office, finish early on a Friday rota basis (3pm!) and flexi your time and building up an extra half days annual leave per month. Also, grab a free tea and coffees whenever you are in the office!
• Annual leave - 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays increasing to 27 days plus bank holidays when you get to 5 years’ service. If this isn’t enough, we provide the ability once a year for employee to buy extra annual leave - this is pro rated for part time employees.
• 3x death in service life insurance scheme should the worst happen in your employment with us.
• Celebrating Service, we offer long service awards to celebrate continued employment.
• EAP covering support for mental health and well-being.
• Employee Engagement (survey or Mi Forum) – We care for your opinions.
• Social calendar driven by our desire to raise funds for local and national charities, supporting a number each year.
• We take huge pride in our ESG policy which includes our impact on the environment and ensuring our company is ‘a great place to work’.

Mi Hub is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

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Mi Hub operates a Preferred Supplier List for recruitment agencies and only accept candidate introductions from agencies we have specifically engaged in writing for a particular role. Any unsolicited CVs or contact from agencies not formally instructed on the role, will not be recognised and no fees will be payable. Should we engage with a candidate whose details were submitted speculatively in this manner, it will not constitute acceptance of terms, and no agency fees will be owed.

Pay: £35,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Enhanced maternity leave
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Flexitime
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Paid volunteer time
• Referral programme
• Sick pay
• Work from home

Application question(s):

• Can you reliably commute to the office location (Castle Donington) at least 3 days per week?

Experience:

• Project management lifecycle: 1 year (required)
• Supply chain: 1 year (required)
• Microsoft Excel: 1 year (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Derby DE74 2UG