Senior Design & Innovation Project Manager

PepsiCo; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

PepsiCo's Design & Innovation Centre in London is seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee WE Foods design programs, including packaging redesign, brand guidelines, and shopper toolkits, coordinating with Europe/UK Foods teams. You will be the primary liaison between marketing partners and internal design, artwork, and production, ensuring timely delivery and strong client relationships.

You will manage budgets, timelines, and resources, prioritise workloads, and drive project management

Qualifications

• In-depth understanding of the design process and experience managing brand design projects for FMCG clients (minimum 4 years).
• Strong technical knowledge of the print production process for packaging and POS.
• Ability to manage multiple large-scale projects with agile and flexible thinking.
• Natural, empathetic and timely communicator, managing the flow of information both upward and downward internally and to outside agencies.
• Anticipating potential challenges to projects and proposing solutions in advance of an issue becoming a crisis.
• A strong desire to control every aspect of project planning; from design objectives and outcomes, time plans and milestones, to financial forecasting and budget control.
• Meticulous attention to detail when writing briefs, meeting reports, project updates and presentations.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day project management and support for WE Foods design programmes.
• Create Scope of Works for all programmes and align with partners ahead of project commencement.
• Plan and manage timelines, budgets and cross charges; schedule reviews and milestones.
• Plan resourcing and manage the resource tracker for projects, freelancers and artwork/production.
• Generate monthly contractor forecast and track spend; report weekly.
• Ensure contractors are at full capacity and keep the tracker up to date.
• Flag overspend or budget changes to Design Leads and marketing partners promptly.
• Maintain full records and provide a complete status account for all live projects.
• Coordinate multiple projects in a fast-paced environment; stay self-motivated and organized.
• Support Design Leads in building relationships with Global & European teams.
• Act as key contact for projects/brands and ensure regular cross-functional communication.
• Drive PM ways of working, tools and capabilities; develop briefs for production.
• Grow PM team expertise and mentor other Foods PMs.
• Champion design processes and ways of working within Foods Design Leads.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Budget management

Communication

Agile thinking

Multitasking

Tools

Mondays.com

YunoJuno

Job description

PepsiCo's Design & Innovation Centre in London is seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee WE Foods design programs, including packaging redesign, brand guidelines, and shopper toolkits, coordinating with Europe/UK Foods teams. You will be the primary liaison between marketing partners and internal design, artwork, and production, ensuring timely delivery and strong client relationships.

You will manage budgets, timelines, and resources, prioritise workloads, and drive project management