Project Manager - Level 3

All About Food Ltd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing FMCG company in Manchester is seeking a Project Manager to lead and coordinate innovation projects. The successful candidate will manage projects from start to finish, ensuring timely delivery and stakeholder compliance. Candidates should have proven project management experience, effective communication skills, and the ability to lead teams. This full-time role offers a competitive salary and benefits including private medical insurance and a pension scheme.

Benefits

Pension Matched up to 8%

Bupa Private Medical Insurance

VIP Co-op Live Access

Sample Scheme (£20 per month to spend on products)

Surprise & Delight Scheme with VIP days

Qualifications

• Proven project management experience with a track record of delivery.
• Experience managing multiple projects/workstreams simultaneously.
• Ability to manage challenging situations and develop relationships with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage innovation projects to budget and timings.
• Deliver projects from start to finish, ensuring stakeholder compliance with process.
• Lead cross-functional teams and manage project complexities.

Skills

Project Management

Effective communication

Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams

Adaptability and proactiveness

Time management

Highly organised and detail oriented

High levels of resilience and robustness

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

This is a great time to join All About Food. We are a rapidly growing FMCG business with a £100M+ turnover with high growth ambitions. With 25 years’ experience in licensing, we are the business that makes restaurant brands successful in retail. You may not have heard of us, but we are confident that you will know the brands we market in the UK & Ireland.

Our portfolio of partnerships includes Nando’s, Costa Coffee, PizzaExpress, Wagamama, Pret-a-Manger and others.

At the heart of our business is a set of core values that underpins everything we do.

We believe we succeed as a team, and strive to get better, be better and achieve more together every day. Our team know we are in it together, and it always feels like it.

The role of Project Manager is a full-time office-based role in an exciting office location based in Central Manchester!

Primary Role

• Manage innovation projects to budget and agreed timings
• Deliver all projects from start to finish, on time, at budgeted cost, ensuring all stakeholders adhere to the stage gate process
• Lead and co-ordinate cross function teams
• Create detailed project timelines to include a critical path of activities that will be used to drive the multifunctional teams to key milestones
• Manage and report complexity of projects for appropriate timeline setting
• Manage, communicate and resolve issues, road blocks and risks to project delivery
• Ensure all stakeholders comply with the gate process at all stages, and ensuring process is continuously optimised
• Manage relationship with our Manufacturer Innovation Team’s and the AAF Product Development Manager to ensure our products are:
• the right quality
• in the right packaging
• at the right cost
• Lead and manage regular external Brand Owner project meetings and communications to ensure alignment to the stage gate process, key milestones, project progress and potential issues

Requirements

• Project Management
• Effective communication
• Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams
• Adaptability and proactiveness
• Time management
• Highly organised and detail orientated
• High levels of resilience and robustness

Experience:

• Project management experience with a track record of proven delivery
• Managing multiple projects/workstreams at once
• Experience of using project management tools such as Microsoft Project
• An understanding and experience of stage gate process
• Experience in managing challenging situations
• Experience in developing and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders ensuring collaboration and project delivery.
• Experience in influencing key stakeholders

Team:
Operations

Employment Type:
Full Time

Location:
Manchester, NQ

Workplace Type:
Office-based

Hiring Manager:
Clair Horan, Operations Director
Cara Headford, Senior Project Innovation Manager

Pension Matched up to 8%
(Salary Sacrifice or Auto-Enrolment)

Bupa Private Medical Insurance
(Including existing medical conditions)

VIP Co-op Live Access

Sample Scheme
(£20 per month to spend on our products)

Surprise & Delight Scheme; VIP days including Royal Ascot and Wimbledon.

Address: Fourways House, Hilton St, Manchester M1 2EJ