Senior Project Manager - Grenade

Mondelez International; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Grenade is seeking a Senior Project Manager in Birmingham to lead a broad portfolio of initiatives from concept to launch, ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and to scope, while embedding robust governance.

You will coach project managers, collaborate with senior leaders across packaging, manufacturing, and regulatory functions, and drive continuous improvement in ways of working within a fast-growing global business.

Qualifications

• Proven track record delivering complex cross-functional projects.
• Experience in FMCG environment preferred.
• Experience with governance and stage-gate processes.
• Leadership experience mentoring project managers.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end project leadership: lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from concept to launch, on time and within scope.
• Cross-functional stakeholder management: align and influence senior stakeholders, resolve conflicts, drive data-based decisions.
• Portfolio delivery: manage NPD, renovation, and business-change initiatives across packaging, manufacturing, and regulatory.
• Governance: establish and maintain governance frameworks including stage gates, risk management, steering committees, and reporting.
• Risk management: identify, assess, and mitigate risks to protect timelines and budget.
• Continual improvement: promote best practices and evolve tools and processes for a growing global business.

Skills

Project management

FMCG

Governance

People leadership

Job description

Business Capability# Senior Project Manager - GrenadeR-178500 | Birmingham, United KingdomAPPLY NOW## Job Description**Are You Ready to Make An Impact at Grenade?**Grenade is an international active nutrition and lifestyle brand, which has grown rapidly since its launch in 2010. Driven by its strong branding, distinctive products, and highly innovative approach, Grenade has made an explosive impact in the FMCG Industry! Today, Grenade’s Protein Bar is the UK’s best-selling, and we continue to innovate with our leading range of Shakes, and performance nutrition.Reporting to the Head of Product, the Senior Project Manager plays a critical role in driving global business change, overseeing a broad portfolio of initiatives including innovation, renovation, maintenance, seasonal, geographic expansion, and productivity. The role is central to evolving and embedding governance in a fast-growing global business, leading a team of Project Managers, and collaborating closely with senior leaders to provide clear updates, navigate complexity, and deliver effective solutions.Joining Grenade’s high-performing team, during this exciting period of growth and brand expansion, promises to offer a unique and motivating working environment, with highly rewarding opportunities for personal and professional development.**How you will contribute**You will:* End-to-end project leadership: Lead the delivery of complex, cross-functional initiatives from concept through to launch, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to agreed scope.* Cross-functional stakeholder management: Engage, align, and influence senior stakeholders across the business, constructively resolving conflict and driving fact-based, outcome-focused decision-making.* Portfolio delivery: Manage global NPD, renovation, and business change initiatives, coordinating inputs across packaging, recipe development, manufacturing, and regulatory functions.* Governance: Establish, embed, and maintain robust project governance frameworks, including stage-gate processes, risk management, steering committees, RAG status, and clear, actionable reporting.* Risk management: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks and dependencies, escalating issues appropriately to protect timelines, cost, and quality.* Continuous improvement: Champion best practice in project management, evolving tools, processes, and ways of working to support the needs of a rapidly growing global business.* Leadership and capability building: Lead, coach, and mentor Project Managers and cross-functional team members to build capability, consistency, and high performance.* Strategic alignment and prioritisation: Support portfolio prioritisation to ensure projects and resource allocation align with AC strategic priorities and operational capability.**What you will bring**A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:* Extensive project management experience: Proven track record of delivering complex, cross-functional projects* FMCG background: notably within food* Flexibility: deep understanding of delivering projects within a complex process, as well as experience working with a start-up approach and able to tailor ways-of-working to accommodate where necessary.* Supply chain exposure: hands-on experience of collaborating with an array of teams* Governance experience: operating at a senior level, steering groups and influencing decision-making, confidently challenging stakeholders where necessary* People leadership: experience in mentoring or line-managing* 2 x direct reports (project managers)The responsibilities of this position are performed within the framework of a regional business model that is defined and managed by Mondelēz Europe GmbH, Switzerland.