Launch Project Manager

• Governs the company Stage & Gate process, giving regular updates and visibility to the SLT and NPD managers, escalating key risks, cascading decisions/actions and holding stakeholders to account
• Overall launch portfolio includes all product change management & implementation.
• Facilitates cross functional business processes and workstreams to ensure delivery of new business opportunities to agree timescales and budgets.
• Ensures that all projects are captured within activity management with clarity of brief, critical path, end to end visualisation and centralised projects hubs for collaborative working.
• Leads & facilitates weekly project updates and project forums to ensure adherence to critical paths and cross-functional tasks are completed
• Uses knowledge of customer requirements, suppliers and agencies to ensure that tasks and timings are fully understood, has direct relationships where appropriate to move projects forward. Upholds the design to print process for packaging, supporting the team to deliver to milestones.
• Reviews projects post launch ensuring that all aspects are captured and corrective actions & improvements are communicated and closed out through training or process improvements.
• Ensures that all project management information is documented, accurate and has the latest version of the truth.

37.5 Hours/Week

Office Based

Potential travel required to customer sites & sister site