Innovation Project Manager

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Vacancy Name
Innovation Project Manager
Employment Type
Permanent
Country
United Kingdom
Location
Liverpool
Business Area
Commercial
Workplace Type
Hybrid
About Princes
The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Mauritius. Princes manufactures 350 different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.
Role Description
Princes Liverpool is looking for a Innovation Projects Manager to join their team in Liverpool. This is a exciting position offering hybrid working (x3 days a week from home) and great benefits!
Job Purpose
The purpose of this role within a group function, to have responsibility for project management of product change, delivering in line with Princes product change framework and strategic priorities. To support a highly structured, professional, and strategic approach to programme / portfolio management with the programme manager
To deliver projects on time and within budget
To create resource plans and people requirements, determine and manage timelines, collaborate with and delegate tasks to subject matter experts, and to identify, raise and address any potential risks.
To provide critical project information to stakeholders during project milestones/meetings to enhance business decisions
In addition to business targets delivery through cross functional management of projects from idea to launch, it is a role to challenge the status quo and influence new ways of working in the design, build and installation of new or changed products to the company portfolio with greatest efficiency
Why Princes?
£5,977 Cash Car Allowance
Free Car Parking Pass
14.5% Pension consisting of a 9.5% Employer contribution (Opt-In)
12.5% Corporate Incentive Scheme/Bonus (75% Princes Performance Based, 25% Individual Performance Based)
Learning & Development Opportunities
26 days Annual Leave including a day for your Birthday + Bank Holidays
Hybrid Working & Core Hours
Flexible holidays - buy/sell 5 days
Critical Illness Scheme
Life Insurance x4 salary
Enhanced Family Friendly Policy
Private Medical Insurance (Single, Partner and family cover)
Employee Assistance Plan - Free emotional, financial and legal support
Discounted Staff Shop
Dimensions
Product change team (15 people including artwork management) project manage approximately 300+ product change projects or 2500+ SKU changes across 5 sectors areas
Programme includes (but is not limited to) product change projects for business growth, maintenance of existing business or savings triggered Innovation, NPD or EPD
No direct reports
Principal Responsibilities
Creation of project plans and critical paths, allocation of project teams, tasks, and responsibilities.
Manage projects from idea to launch - project feasibility, development, delivery, and post launch review.
Facilitating teams of required subject matter experts to deliver projects / portfolio of projects in line with the Princes product change frameworks.
Management of KPI`s of project delivery to ensure targets are met.
Provide accurate information on performance and risk to governance meetings that will drive effective decision making and accountability.
Facilitate meetings for feasibility of projects in line with the Project Sponsors direction against the organisational and customer strategic plans.
Proactively manage potential conflicts, engaging specialist expertise as required and facilitate the projects alignment with the Project Sponsor as well as the organisational and customer strategic plans.
Build and maintain relationships with business representatives and stakeholders at head office and sites and act as the primary point of contact for the project or portfolio.
Tracking and reporting of project deliverables, including plans, financial benefits, risks, assumptions, issues and deliverables from the relevant sector experts - Finance, Marketing etc (e.g. RAID logs).
Identification and escalation of risk and issues through defined PMO and governance processes.
Creation and maintenance of comprehensive project documentation including work templates and meeting outputs in line with the standardised change management process.
Ensure effective project closure, review and implementation of learnings using the post launch review process for appropriate projects in the sector area.
Customer contact may be required.
Travel (mainly within the UK) will be required in this role.
Role Requirements
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Experience
Significant project team leadership experience within a similar (ideally food manufacturing) organisation across full project initiation, development, and implementation lifecycle
Thorough understanding and demonstrable experience of Project Management practices and frameworks (ideally following a stage and gate process)
Proven ability to influence cross-functionally and at all levels - managing a complicated by breadth of projects/number of people/geographical distance/supply and customer complexity
Advantageous to have driven change to process and / or ways of working - recognising need to change, analysing current state and proposing targeted future state. Facilitating alignment to design, testing, installation and embedding, whilst overcoming barriers
Assessment and summary of project risks, consequences, and proposals to form recommendations
Skills
Problem solving and facilitation techniques
Use of technology in delivery of high-quality service e.g. MS Project, project management software
Project management techniques awareness
Planning and organisation
Excellent communication skills - complex commercial and technical information to appropriate levels, presented effectively
Creativity and change - ability to recognise opportunities, positively challenge and innovatively meet business needs
Stakeholder management skills at all levels - ability to drive and influence business decisions and command credibility at senior management level, managing complex relationships across an organisation
Proactive and pragmatic approach
Attention to detail
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