Senior Project Manger

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact

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Why join our team?

pladis is home to iconic brands Godiva, McVitie’s and Ulker. These brands make sweet treats and savoury treats that consumers everywhere recognise and enjoy As we start on our new journey, we will continue making the biscuits and confectionery people know and expect from these brands, and we will expand their portfolios too. Together we will build new and exciting products at pladis - new flavours, new concepts and new ways to share happiness

Our strength is not only in our products, it is also in our people and our values. Each business that has united to form pladis are loved for their heritage and values. We will retain the honesty, integrity and trust instilled in our brands by our ground-breaking founders as we embark on the next chapter of our success.

What will this role achieve?

This role is in the Commercialisation function, whose purpose is to 'lead cross functional collaboration to bring ideas and products to life' and broadly covers 4 key areas:
- Process enablement- Cross-functional integration- Risk mitigation- Project portfolio consolidation

This role is responsible for the delivery, process management, governance & reporting of projects to bring new products and changes to existing products to market. Extraordinary execution is a core objective and result.

As well as an internal focus working on our iconic brands, this role may also have an external focus with regard to retailer own label (ROL) projects which involves forming relationships with customer contacts and gaining alignment to ROL projects and processes internally.

The role holder is responsible with the Commercialisation Controller for the delivery of projects to support the delivery of pladis growth targets. These projects can complex in terms of new technologies, high investment spend and inter-linkage with other projects.

What will be your key deliverables?- Accountable for planning, governance and delivery on time, in full for projects approved through the pladis stage and gate process & commercialisation forum.- Process enablement is a key deliverable for the function and the Senior Project Manager.- Drive innovation & renovation projects through the gates- Own the process and timelines- Track and report on the progress / issues in an accurate and timely manner. Highlight compliance to plan, key issues and risks.- Understand Retailer processes and systems and how they interlink with pladis stage and gate to ensure that project deliverables are met for the Retailer/ customer and pladis

Risk Mitigation:
- Identify projects at risk- Remove obstacles quickly and efficiently- Escalate when required, providing options, recommendation and impact should a decision be required- Implement mitigation measures- Ensure tight control of project scope, action standards and guard rails, with clear approval process through Commercialisation for any change & subsequent updates and where appropriate alignment with the Retailer.- Arbitrate and resolve conflict and interface problems within individual projects. Assure timely adaptive action is taken.- Resolve resource issues through prioritisation process & stakeholder alignment.- Be a business guide on key project management systems and processes internally and externally.- Identify, propose, lead & drive improvements in performance / ways of working with functional key stakeholders.- Leads the communication matrix cross functionally.- Over arching responsibility to ensure Project Executive(s) cross functionally lead and deliver all artwork to plan, including smooth transition when changing sku’s or codes, mitigating any existing packaging write off.- Ensure initiatives with interdependencies are identified, communicated & aligned through the process e.g. outside of the UK/other markets, Brand and Own Label when product and/or material changes will affect.

What do you need for this role?

Essential- Project Management experience- Expert within at least one area of the business e.g. Supply Chain, Finance, Commercial, Procurement or Technical- FMCG experience- Commer