Project Manager

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At Britvic we're on a journey to become the most dynamic soft drinks company. As one of the UK's leading players in the FMCG market we pride ourselves on setting high standards, being courageous and pushing ourselves to think outside the bottle.

We offer consumers a range of family favourite and global premium brands such as Robinsons, Tango, J20, R Whites & London Essence. We exist to help people enjoy life's everyday moments.

About the Role:
The purpose of the role is to manage a portfolio of business change projects or work-streams within Commercial, E-commerce & Marketing at Britvic.

The role will involve delivering technology projects which are key to Commercial, e-commerce and Marketing including Commercial Scenario Planning, Customer Relationship Management, Commercial Asset Management and IOT.

This role plays a key part in determining the overall success of key business objectives to drive value, cost benefit from IT projects or IT components of wider business change projects. The role needs to work across all functions involved in the delivery of the

projects ensuring everyone is aligned to the objectives of the project and is clear on their part.

The role sits in the IT Delivery and Strategy team focussing on Commercial Delivery, eCommerce and Marketing projects and programmes.

Key Responsibilities:

1. To ensure that project objectives are clearly stated and fully bought into, the scope is clearly defined and success criteria understood and agreed.
2. Ensure a clearly stated benefits case exists with the required business change plans to deliver the benefits.
3. Raise, control and manage the project budget in order to ensure that project costs, quality and time scales are delivered on target.
4. To identify risks and issues to the project, and to develop and manage contingency plans in order to eliminate any risk to the business.
5. To manage all processes relating to the completion of Service Level Agreements as agreed for handover to I.T. support and service and any relevant business areas or third party providers, ensuring the smooth embedding of the new technology delivered.
6. Responsible for managing all aspects of the end-to-end deployment of the project, enabling the delivery of clear business benefits as agreed by the Sponsor and senior management.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience Required:

1. Experience of managing at least 3 Commercial, Ecommerce & Marketing projects with a significant IT element from start to finish.
2. Experience of managing project teams with greater than 4 FTEs involving 3rd parties, Business change teams and budget of over £100k
3. Good understanding of project management methodologies and techniques (waterfall, agile and sprint)
4. Dependencies identification and management
5. Risks, Issues and Change management using structured techniques
6. Budget forecasting, tracking and control

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