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Welcome to Hovis. We are the proud guardians of over 130 years of baking experience that make up our iconic and much-loved brand. We produce bread and bakery products created with Hovis goodness at the heart of each. We deliver around 1.3million loaves, every day of the week throughout the UK and Ireland, where we also make Mothers Pride and Ormo products.

We are 2,800 people working within 8 bakeries, 1 flour mill, and 2 regional distribution centres across the UK. Our success is a result of the hard work of our people; they are experts in their field whether it’s baking, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, or the many departments within the central functions team based in our head office in High Wycombe. We are a values-led business and expect our colleagues to live, breathe, and embed Quality, Accountability, and Trust into their ways of working.

The role:

A great opportunity has arisen at Hovis for a Project Manager to join our ambitious and energetic commercial team and help us continue to accelerate our growth through delivering NPD to market swiftly within the quality parameters set by the business. This position is pivotal in the delivery of NPD and EPD and project management is key to achieving success and to take us into the next phase of growth.

Hovis, worth over £385m at retail sales, is one of the UK’s leading food brands and is the fastest growing major bread brand in 2020-22. It ranks number 21 in Britain's Biggest Brands.

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  Working alongside the project lead, or as project lead, to project manage the planning and delivery of our NPD, EPD and pack change of our Branded portfolio across Core Bread and Other Bakery from scoped definition through to launch and post launch review within the Hovis Stage & Gate process.
• Projects are to be delivered within scope, time and budget to the agreed quality, on time
  and in full.
• The role will require strong collaboration with, and management of, cross functional teams across the Hovis network and third party suppliers.
• Ensure that all key functions across Supply Chain, Marketing, Commercial, Procurement, Finance and Technical are clear on their project roles, accept their responsibilities and that day to day processes run efficiently to deliver best in class project management support.
• Working closely with Senior Programme and Project Manager and Marketing Project Leads to support, and enhance, the project management governance via the Stage & Gate cycle and identify and drive improvements to our ways of working and process parameters.
• You must have good relatable experience, a strong eye for detail, be highly organised, understand how interdependencies work within project delivery and have excellent stakeholder management skills
• You will be responsible for detailed planning and building of achievable, if challenging
  timelines, the identification of risk, taking responsibility for working to remove obstacles quickly and efficiently via corrective actions and flagging business risk.
• Provide support to the wider marketing team including on specific areas such as Brandbank and DragonFlyAI.

Ideal Experiences / Qualifications / Capabilities:

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  Proven project management experience and a track record of delivering projects on time
  and in full (time, cost, quality)
• Evidence of having managed projects through a full cycle from scoped idea to
  implementation and post launch review
• Experience of management of multiple activities / projects simultaneously
• Demonstrable experience of operating within a Stage & Gate process project management model
• Broad understanding of packaging artwork, repro and print processes
• Experience in FMCG or Retail medium/large complex businesses
• Experience of multi-site environments
• Problem solving skills
• Proven collaborative, influencing and interpersonal skills in a cross functional environment
• Evidence of courageous, inventive, driven and straightforward behaviours
• Excellent verbal, written and presentational skills
• Commercial acumen and sound financial understanding
• Can do and collaborative attitude
• Thinking ahead and independently to anticipate problems and solutions
• Tenacity and determination
• Prioritisation and planning
• Ability to use Google applications with practical IT skills

Desirable:

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  3 years + in FMCG, food, commercial, project management.
• Developed skills as evidenced in managing a challenging product to market projects.

Why work for us and our benefits:

At Hovis, we understand the importance of looking after our colleagues, so we provide a variety of benefits in addition to their salaries. The benefits we provide at Hovis are as varied as the people who receive them but they are offered with the intention of creating value to them personally over and above their salaries

• There is a range of colleague benefits available, which individuals can select based on their needs.

• Our benefits scheme is called Hovis Choice, which offers a variety of savings and cashback offers on day to day living and much more including eyecare vouchers, and a healthcare scheme to suit everyone. It also includes our Cycle to Work scheme where you can obtain a brand new bike at a significant saving

• We offer competitive annual leave entitlement and flexibility where possible in order to create a healthy work-life balance

• We celebrate loyalty with our generous long service and colleague recognition schemes

• We offer three levels of pensions

Hovis values diversity and is committed to promoting equal opportunities in the workplace. Every job applicant, employee or worker will be treated fairly and equally with dignity and respect regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, social class, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religious belief, union membership, political opinion, sex, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic.