About this role
Mountain Warehouse is a rapidly growing global retailer, with over 430 stores across the UK, Ireland, Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand, alongside a strong and expanding online presence. Since our founding, we’ve built a reputation for offering high-quality outdoor products at great value, supporting customers in enjoying the outdoors wherever they are.
- Deliver priority inventory and supply chain projects that improve stock accuracy, traceability, efficiency and responsible business practices.
- Manage projects from discovery and pilot through rollout and handover, initially focusing on RFID, Digital Product Passports, Freight, Inventory, and Ethics & Sustainability.
- Reports into: Head of Supply Chain Transformation Team: Supply Chain Key accountabilities: Deliver assigned projects from scope and planning through rollout, handover and benefits tracking.
- Lead RFID pilots and rollout, and coordinate Digital Product Passport activity across business, data, technology, compliance and supplier workstreams.
- Manage priority Freight, Inventory, and Ethics & Sustainability projects with clear governance, ownership and reporting.
- Maintain plans, milestones, RAID logs, budgets, dependencies and status updates.
- Use data and operational insight to improve performance and demonstrate benefits.
- Build effective relationships across functions, suppliers and delivery partners.
- RFID Pilots and Rollout Maintain the integrated plan for RFID pilots and phased rollout, including scope, milestones, owners, dependencies and success measures.
- Coordinate pilots across stores, distribution operations and systems, working with operational and technology teams to test solutions and resolve issues.
- Assess accuracy, availability, productivity, loss prevention and adoption to recommend rollout decisions.
- Digital Product Passport Manage the Digital Product Passport plan, governance, actions, risks and decisions.
- Align Supply Chain, Sustainability, Buying, Merchandising, IT and web teams on requirements and ownership.
- Map data requirements, gaps and process changes needed to improve quality and traceability.
- Coordinate testing and implementation to embed a practical, controlled solution.
- Freight, Inventory, and Ethics & Sustainability Projects Manage priority Freight, Inventory, and Ethics & Sustainability projects.
- Agree scope, deliverables, timelines and success measures with functional leads.
- Coordinate teams and partners, managing actions, dependencies, risks and escalation.
- Use data to drive improvements and ensure clear documentation, ownership and handover.
- Project Governance, Change and Benefits Define objectives, scope, governance, measures and resource needs.
- Maintain project controls and escalate issues with practical recommendations.
- Plan testing, training, communications, implementation, hypercare and handover.
- Track benefits and capture lessons for future phases.
- Stakeholder Communication and Team Contribution Build alignment across functions and seniority levels.
- Provide concise updates and clear materials on progress, options and decisions.
- Share knowledge and contribute to the wider Supply Chain team.