Project Manager Retail

Gurugram - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 10 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Who we are:

GMG is a global well-being company retailing distributing and manufacturing a portfolio of leading international and home-grown brands across sport everyday goods health and beauty properties and logistics sectors. Under the ownership and management of the Baker family for over 45 years GMG is a valued partner of choice for the worlds most successful and respected brands in the well-being sector. Working across the Middle East North Africa and Asia GMG has introduced more than 120 brands across 12 countries. These include notable home-grown brands such as Sun & Sand Sports Dropkick Supercare Pharmacy Farm Fresh Klassic and international brands like Nike Columbia Converse Timberland Vans Mama Sitas and McCain.

Role Summary:
We are seeking a Project Manager to join the Transformation Team responsible for leading high-impact initiatives and driving the excellence across Retail domains. The role requires a strong business-facing leader who can identify business problems define transformation opportunities and ensure disciplined execution through mature PMO practices. The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking operational excellence and delivery leadership acting as a trusted partner to business leaders while institutionalizing best practices standards and continuous improvement through the CoE.

Responsibilities:

Business Relationship Management

- Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across business functions operations buying planning etc.)

- Build strong partnerships to understand priorities challenges and performance gap

- Ensure alignment between business objectives and transformation initiatives

Business Problem Analysis & Transformation

- Identify operational inefficiencies and scalability gaps through structured analysis

- Translate business problems into outcome-driven transformation initiatives

- Drive solution design with business technology and operations teams

Project & Program Management (PMO Leadership)

- Lead end-to-end delivery of transformation projects with control over scope timelines budget and quality

- Establish PMO governance standards and reporting

- Manage risks dependencies and benefits realization; provide clear leadership updates

Operations Excellence & Process Improvement

- Drive operational excellence across retail planning and buying

- Identify and implement opportunities for simplification standardization and automation

- Embed scalable best practices SOPs and performance metrics into operations

Center of Excellence (CoE) Enablement

- Build and operate the Transformation CoE including governance and operating model

- Define standards methodologies and best practices for delivery and improvement

- Enable teams through coaching and act as custodian of transformation capabilities

People Management :
The incumbent holds no direct supervisory responsibilities but is expected to engage effectively within their function and collaboratively across cross-functional teams. This role contributes meaningfully whether through operational contributions and/or by offering specialized expertise guidance and support to ensure alignment with either functional and/or strategic organizational goals and objectives.

Functional / Technical Competencies:

- Proven experience in leading transformation programs with rigorous PMO practices

- Deep understanding of retail operations planning and buying processes

- Strong expertise in operating in both Waterfall and hybrid / Agile delivery models based on scope clarity and program maturity

- Proficiency in JIRA and Confluence for agile project management and documentation

- Strong financial acumen including creating business case budget management and business case tracking

- Clear confident communication with executives and delivery teams alike

- Problem-solving and conflict resolution abilities to manage blockers and team dynamics effectively.

- Strong organizational skills to handle multiple projects and priorities.

Experience:
- 8 years of experience in Project / Program Management

- Demonstrated experience managing enterprise-wide initiatives in retail or consumer-facing organizations

- Experience working with global stakeholders system integrators and third-party vendors

- Strong exposure to process improvement methodologies

Who we are:GMG is a global well-being company retailing distributing and manufacturing a portfolio of leading international and home-grown brands across sport everyday goods health and beauty properties and logistics sectors. Under the ownership and management of the Baker family for over 45 years G...