Assistant Project Manager jobs in United Kingdom

Job Description

Why Greencore?

We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead end-to-end project and change implementations within well-defined timelines and budget.
• Create and deliver strategic project objectives to support the implementation and embedding of improved business processes and practices.
• Deploy the change control procedure to ensure that project deliverables are completed within a planned cost, timescale and resource budgets, and appropriately authorised.
• Plan, direct and co-ordinate activities to manage major changes and/or new concepts.
• Formulate commercially viable approaches and co-ordinate post-launch project activities, ensuring budgets and timescales are met.
• Provide scrutiny and challenge across all projects ensuring alignment with wider policies and strategic initiatives.
• Deploy a structured and considered plan to ensure that all stakeholders are informed and engaged.
• Manage critical paths for all projects to ensure timely delivery.

What we’re looking for:

• Has experience of project management with supporting knowledge of project techniques, with a recognised project delivery method such as PMI/PRINCE2.
• Experience of data management projects would be advantageous.
• Is an experienced user of Microsoft Project (or equivalent programme).
• Has demonstrable risk management experience.
• Has experience with contract management.

What you’ll get in return:

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits.
• Car allowance.
• 25 days holiday.
• Pension up to 8% matched.
• Company share save scheme.