New Product Operations Project Manager

Michael Page (UK); Lancashire; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consumer products manufacturer is seeking a New Product Operations Project Manager to oversee product launches and lead a team of Project Managers. The ideal candidate will manage cross-functional projects, ensuring compliance, quality, and timely delivery. This role offers a competitive salary of £55,000 and a hybrid working model in Lancashire, with opportunities for career progression and impact within the company.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Hybrid working model

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing complex, cross-functional projects.
• Strong people leadership skills, including coaching and developing teams.
• Experience in strategic project leadership, balancing objectives.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Project Managers overseeing product projects.
• Ensure alignment of strategic projects with business objectives.
• Manage supplier timelines and project planning.

Skills

Project management

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Cross-functional coordination

Job description

• Lead a central operations-focused to directly shape product delivery success.
• Drive end-to-end product launches with real influence and visibility.

About Our Client

A leading consumer products manufacturer is seeking a New Product Operations Project Manager to oversee the end-to-end implementation of new products - ensuring they are viable, compliant, costed, tested, operationally ready and delivered on time.

This role leads a team of three Project Managers and plays a key part in shaping how the organisation introduces new products across a variety of markets.

Job Description

• Lead and develop a team of project managers, each managing their own portfolio of new product projects, providing coaching, structure, and guidance.


• Oversee your own portfolio of high-priority, strategic projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and long-term product strategy.


• Coordinate cross-functionally across Purchasing, New Product Development, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Logistics, and Quality, ensuring all teams are aligned, informed, and meeting project milestones.


• Work with the Purchasing team to manage supplier timelines, material availability, cost implications, and risk, feeding insights into project planning and decision-making.


• Collaborate with New Product, Sales, and Marketing teams to turn market insights and customer requirements into operationally viable product plans.


• Partner with Operations and Logistics to assess production feasibility, capacity constraints, and scheduling, ensuring realistic and achievable delivery roadmaps.


• Use complex data sets, project KPIs, and advanced technology tools to track progress, forecast risks, support decision-making, and optimize resource allocation.


• Maintain oversight of compliance, quality, testing, and fit-for-purpose requirements, ensuring operational and regulatory standards are met for all launches.


• Drive continuous improvement, identifying new ways of working, better processes, and smarter use of technology across projects.


• Act as the central point for issue resolution and escalation, ensuring timely decisions by bringing the right experts together.


• Provide clear, actionable reporting to senior stakeholders, highlighting project status, risks, interdependencies, and strategic impact.

The Successful Applicant

• Proven experience managing a portfolio of complex, cross-functional projects from concept to delivery.


• Strong people leadership skills, including coaching and developing a team of project managers or coordinators.


• Experience leading strategic projects with business impact, balancing operational, commercial, and long-term objectives.


• Skilled at coordinating specialist teams (Purchasing, Product, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Quality) to deliver aligned outcomes.


• Comfortable working with complex data and project tools to track progress, inform decisions, and manage roadmaps.


• Commercially aware, able to manage costs, forecasts, and trade-offs effectively.


• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills for senior leadership updates.


• Experience in manufacturing, operations, or product-focused environments preferred but not essential.


• Resilient, adaptable, and solutions-focused, able to manage competing priorities and deliver results.

What's on Offer

• Competitive salary of £55,000, with potential progression as the role and remit expand.


• Hybrid working model, based in Lancashire / North West, balancing office collaboration with flexibility.


• A highly progressive role at the heart of the business, leading cross-functional projects and shaping new product implementation.


• Opportunity to grow the role in line with business strategy, taking on an even wider remit and more strategic responsibility in the future.


• Lead a talented, capable team, with the chance to develop people, introduce structure, and make a lasting impact.


• Exposure to complex, high-profile projects, working with multiple functions, stakeholders, and advanced project management tools.


• Join a business that values innovation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement, with clear visibility of your contribution.