Project Manager - Level 3

All About Food Ltd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension matched up to 8%

Bupa Private Medical Insurance

VIP Co-op Live Access

Sample Scheme

Surprise & Delight Scheme

Job summary

All About Food Ltd in Manchester is seeking a Project Manager to lead cross-functional innovation projects from initiation to completion, ensuring delivery on time and within budget in a busy FMCG environment.

You will coordinate with the Manufacturer Innovation Team and Product Development Manager, maintain stage-gate processes, and drive milestones through clear communication and proactive risk management.

Qualifications

• Project management experience with delivery track record.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management.
• Ability to work proactively in a fast-paced FMCG environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage innovation projects to budget and agreed timings.
• Deliver projects end-to-end on time and within budget.
• Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams.
• Create detailed timelines with critical paths for milestones.
• Report complexity and manage risks to delivery.
• Ensure gate process compliance and continuous optimisation.
• Coordinate with Manufacturer Innovation Team and Product Development Manager.
• Lead external Brand Owner project meetings for alignment with stage gate.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Leadership

Adaptability

Time management

Detail-oriented

Resilience

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