IT Project Manager

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Job Title IT Project Manager Location Asda House Employment Type Full time Contract Type Permanent Hours Per Week 37.5 Salary Competitive salary plus benefits Category General / Other - SF Closing Date 1 November 2026 We’re looking for an experienced IT Project Manager to join our Digital & Technology Infrastructure Delivery team. You’ll take ownership of delivering technology projects from initiation through to implementation and handover, working across internal technology teams, business stakeholders and external partners. This is a hands-on delivery role where you’ll be responsible for bringing structure to complex projects, driving progress and ensuring successful outcomes. Your Role As an IT Project Manager, you will: Lead projects end-to-end, taking ownership of scope, plans, milestones, budgets, resources and delivery outcomes. Develop and maintain clear, realistic project plans, actively managing progress against agreed timescales and deliverables. Own project governance, including risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, decisions and RACI, ensuring these are actively managed rather than simply reported. Provide clear and concise project status reporting, ensuring Sponsors and key stakeholders understand progress, risks, decisions and actions required. Identify and proactively manage risks, issues and blockers, escalating where appropriate and driving them through to resolution. Manage project budgets and financials, including forecasting, tracking spend and identifying potential financial risks. Coordinate delivery across multiple internal teams, technology functions, suppliers and third parties. Manage dependencies across projects and programmes, aligning timescales, resources and delivery plans. Build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels, constructively challenging where necessary to maintain momentum and achieve successful outcomes. Manage third-party suppliers against agreed deliverables, milestones and dependencies. Ensure solutions are delivered into a fully supportable operational state, including appropriate transition and handover to Service teams. Maintain high standards of delivery governance while adapting your approach to suit the scale, complexity and needs of each project. About You You’ll be an experienced Project Manager with a strong track record of successfully delivering IT or technology projects. We’re looking for someone who: Has demonstrable experience of end-to-end project delivery within a complex organisation. Has experience delivering Technology Infrastructure projects, or similarly complex technical change. Is confident managing project plans, budgets, resources, risks, issues and dependencies. Has strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including experience working with senior stakeholders. Is comfortable working across multiple technical teams, business areas and external suppliers. Can bring structure and direction to complex or ambiguous situations and maintain delivery momentum. Is proactive, resilient and comfortable taking ownership of problems through to resolution. Has practical experience of different delivery approaches, including Waterfall and Agile, and understands when to apply them appropriately. Has strong commercial awareness and experience working with third-party technology suppliers. Experience within Retail would be beneficial but isn’t essential. More important is your ability to quickly understand a complex organisation and successfully deliver technology change within it. Experience delivering infrastructure change such as hosting, networks, cloud, data centre, workplace technology or technology migration/transformation projects would be advantageous. Everything you'll love To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots. You will also get an excellent benefits package including: Discretionary company bonus Company pension up to 7% matched Company Car allowance of £5,700 15% colleague discount in store and online Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas. Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments. We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves