•  Job Title – IT Scheduling Co-ordinator
•  Location – Bury
•  Working rota – Monday - Friday
• Working hours – 40 hours

Role Overview

Reporting to the IT Operations team leader, the scheduling coordinator role is to assist the IT department with delivering the IT elements of all group new store openings in a project coordinator capacity. The role will also help support store closures, transition store into support and manage bespoke company acquisitions. The role is responsible for supporting the Regional IT Operations manager in their role as project manager overseeing new stores, and bespoke IT projects.

Key Responsibilities:

Accountabilities and Tasks:

The IT Scheduling coordinator role is to coordinate, assist and support for the IT functions of the business.

To assist the Regional Operations Managers in rolling out new stores;

• Liaising with the warehouse to ensure IT kit is prepped and shipped as per each store requirements.
• Ordering chip and pin and completing banking set up and provisioning.
• Ordering HHT’s and AP’s and arranging the delivery.
• Ensuring all parties is updated on the current status of each store.
• Providing Capex quotes for each new store opening.
• Completing a closing budget for each new store opening.
• Assisting with the engineer’s schedule including flights, hotels, car hire and other travel arrangements.
• Managing the master new store opening spreadsheet ensuring it is always up to date.
• Collating a closure report once each store has opened.
• Collating all paperwork for a new store opening.
• Collecting data that is required for the store.
• Completing a weekly and monthly store report.
• To take joint responsibility in keeping all documentation required by the operations managers up to date.
• To monitor issues within the rollouts / schedules and collate statistics on these.
• To keep the project manager informed on all schedules and any issues or risks.
• To project coordinator on all group store closures.
• To liaise with third parties collecting quotes and raising orders.
• Assist with power and data drawings including heatmaps.
• Assist IT Ops colleagues with queries for new stores.
• Regular updates and communication to be provided on each store issue using issue log tool.
• Review 3^rd party install work to ensure JD standard specification is being upheld.

Skills/Experience/Knowledge needed:

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent attention to detail, organisational, prioritisation and time management skills
• A strong desire to learn new skills.
• Able to work to tight deadlines
• Problem solving skills within an IT environment
• Strong Customer Service ethos.
• Aptitude for learning quickly and with minimal instruction.
• Experience in using Word, Excel and PowerPoint, project planning.
• A valid UK passport.
• A valid UK driving license.

Preferable

• Experience working in a retail environment.
• Experience working in a projects environment.
• Understanding of software tools such as Microsoft Project , excel and Visio.
• Understanding the business drivers (e.g. tangible, intangible benefits)
• Engineering experience but not essential as training is provided.

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascia's in over 30 markets around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Incremental Holiday Allowance
• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
• Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
• Discounted Gym membership
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
• Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Interested?

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

Thank you again for your time.

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