NPD Project Manager

2 weeks ago

Reading UK, Berkshire, United Kingdom The Advocate Group Full time

NPD Project Manager

Berkshire- Hybrid

Competitive Salary and package.


Are you a Project Executive on the upward path of your career? Are you a Brand Manager or NPD manager looking to expand your project Management experience?


Would you like to play a fundamental part of the successful delivery of multiple business critical projects?


The Advocate Group are delighted to be working exclusively with a leading food business to find the next key ingredient for their project team.


Looking to expand their team as they continue to contribute to their strong growth agenda.

They’re on the search for a Project Manager, who will lead and deliver launches and strategic projects through full execution in order to contribute to the business’s continuous growth and NPD pipeline.


The Role:

· To Lead the scoping, planning and delivery of multiple cross-functional business critical initiatives

· Create project infrastructure and governance, defining work-streams, setting roles and responsibilities (RACI) and building communication plans

· Create engagement with the project and workstreams across all stakeholder groups, building a motivated cross -functional team based on trust and collaboration

· Identify interdependencies and risks and provide insights and plans on how to mitigate them

· Create, implement and review project timelines, highlighting potential blockages & actual slippages & making recommendations, where relevant

· Hold project / work stream owners to account on project deliverables

· Chair appropriate meetings as defined in project governance to deliver agreed outcomes

· Ensure all required documents are created on time and are fit for purpose eg. Gate docs and that the NPD Process is followed

· Carry out full project reviews, capturing and embedding process and project learnings, making recommendations on process improvements and support or manage the implementation of these


The Person:

· Experience of managing timebound projects within the FMCG market

· Strong attention to detail

· Competent in planning and organisation

· Comfortable working in a highly complex environment

· Good communicator able to lead and be part of project teams

· Commercial awareness and understanding

· Ability to stakeholder internal and external partners and building strong collaborative relationships

· Time management and able to deliver at pace

· A desire to develop and build their career with a strong sense of self-directed learning and development


We strive to build an inclusive work environment for all and will consider all candidates without regard to gender, including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment, race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity or trade union membership. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruitment process please let us know

The Advocate Group is the exclusive talent partner for this appointment. All direct or third party applicants will be forwarded to The Advocate Group for processing

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