project manager United Kingdom
Diageo
Full Time
United Kingdom
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
Job Description :
Project Manager, Brand Change & Innovation, European Spirits
Menstrie, Central Scotland or Santa Vittoria, Italy
Closing Date: 4/08/2023
Have you ever wanted to walk into a bar or a shop see a product and say: "I did that! I saw that through from concept to commercialisation, into production, and onto the shelf." Yes? Then this could be the role for you.
About us
This exciting role is within the newly formed European Spirits Category, Innovation & Brand Change team which delivers projects across a diverse brand portfolio for Diageo Innovation and Global Brand Teams. European Spirits Category, Innovation & Brand Change is set up to deliver Innovation, Renovation, Limited time offerings & VAP across a range of iconic brands including Smirnoff, Tanqueray, Captain Morgan, Gordons and Ciroc.
A diverse workforce is crucial to our success as a multi-national, multi-cultural business. Our aim is to foster a culture that provides opportunities for all, through the variety of different personalities, experiences and perspectives, creating a stimulating and rewarding working environment. We’re always open to a conversation about what flexible working means to you. By creating a truly inclusive workplace that recognises difference and diversity of thought, feelings and actions, we can allow our people to unleash the power of being themselves, always, to enable them to Celebrate Life, Every Day, Everywhere.
About the role
As a Project Manager in Brand Change, you’ll efficiently delivery Brand Change projects through Global Supply Chain & Procurement to satisfy customer briefs in terms of quality, cost and time.
In this role your key accountabilities will be:
- Project Management of Brand Change projects to deliver required activities (ranging from Innovation & Redesign projects to small scale packaging change & VAP), to agreed cost, quality and time committed.
- Supports Brand Change Team Leader in leading the project pipeline in conjunction with key partners (inside and outside of wider Brand Change teams) and reports Key Performance Indicators and Brand Change metrics.
- Lead the Diageo Customer Interface to maximise satisfaction
- Ensure the application of required project planning, budgeting, tracking, reporting and partner communications processes to demonstrate required rigour of project management.
About you
We’re looking for people with motivated, resilient and open-minded. You’ll be commercially astute, target driven and flexible – as our work can change quickly. You’ll also be ready to build strong relationships with customers, and in fact, everyone you work with.
In terms of qualifications and experience you’ll have the following:
- Degree level qualification or equivalent, ideally in a technical area.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and influencing skills, being capable of developing sound working relationships.
- Sound people co-ordination and management ability.
- Institute of Packaging Diploma or equivalent, or commitment to train for same.
- Strong project management skills with sound knowledge of a wide range of packaging materials and processes including:
- Liquid development and commercialisation
- Artwork specification and management
- Reprographics process
- Design and development of packaging and materials
- Materials manufacturing and due diligence
- Materials handling, transportation and transit robustness
- Risk Management practices and techniques
- Ability to develop sound understanding of International Supply Centre Technical and Brand Change processes and Ways of Working.
- Ability to develop sound understanding of Navigate process.
- Commercial/Marketing, Financial and Supply Chain awareness.
- Excellent organisation, report preparation, and presentation skills.
Working with Us
Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.
Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package including:
- Competitive base salary and bonus scheme
- Contemporary work life balance policies and wellbeing activities
- Contributary pension scheme
- Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family
- Share options
Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.
We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world’s very best people.
We're looking for people with creativity, boldness and a sense of purpose to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
Worker Type :
RegularPrimary Location:
International Supply Technical Centre – MenstrieAdditional Locations :
Santa VittoriaJob Posting Start Date :
2023-07-21
Diageo
www.diageo.com
London, United Kingdom
Ivan Menezes
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Food & Beverage Manufacturing
1997
