Delivery Lead: Operations Fulfilment & Product Projects

Essentra; Kidlington; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Annual Bonus

Private Medical Insurance

5% Pension match

Life Assurance 4x Salary

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Essentra is seeking an Operations Fulfilment/Product Project Manager to move the Operational Fulfilment workstream from high-level intent into governed delivery. You will own the delivery plan, scope, milestones, and dependencies, translating needs into practical work packages for Express, Engage Direct-to-Customer and Cross-Dock fulfilment.

You’ll work across operations strategy, process, product and delivery, ensuring initiatives are delivered with measurable outcomes and strong stakeholder

Qualifications

• Experience in an operations manufacturing, distribution or industrial environment.
• Proven experience delivering commercial, business or customer-focused change initiatives in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.
• Strong project management capability, with confidence managing ambiguity, dependencies and competing priorities.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work credibly with senior commercial and sales leaders.
• Experience translating strategy and customer needs into executable plans and tangible outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Translate the Operational Fulfilment strategy into a delivery plan, including milestones, deliverables, sequencing, owners, dependencies and governance checkpoints through to implementation and transition into BAU.
• Manage project delivery across Express, Engage Direct-to-Customer and Cross-Dock fulfilment routes, ensuring scope, deliverables and success criteria are clearly defined and controlled.
• Drive clarity on what is being delivered, for which customer segments, and what success looks like in measurable terms.
• Ensure customer insights, data and feedback are embedded into project design and decision-making.
• Support the development and execution of differentiated propositions (e.g. Express vs Engage), ensuring consistency across channels and regions where required.
• Act as the single point of accountability for delivery, coordinating multi-disciplinary teams across regions and functions.
• Build strong working relationships with senior stakeholders, sponsors and workstream leads, providing clear updates, risks and decision points.
• Facilitate workshops, working sessions and governance forums to drive alignment and resolve issues.

Skills

Delivery planning

Project management

Stakeholder management

Operations manufacturing

Cross-functional delivery

Agile/hybrid delivery

Change initiatives

Strategic translation

Job description

Essentra is seeking an Operations Fulfilment/Product Project Manager to move the Operational Fulfilment workstream from high-level intent into governed delivery. You will own the delivery plan, scope, milestones, and dependencies, translating needs into practical work packages for Express, Engage Direct-to-Customer and Cross-Dock fulfilment.

You’ll work across operations strategy, process, product and delivery, ensuring initiatives are delivered with measurable outcomes and strong stakeholder