Senior Project Manager - Grenade
Mondelēz International Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Food and Beverage Manufacturing · 10,001+ employees
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About the role
The Senior Project Manager will lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from concept to launch while establishing robust project governance frameworks. They are responsible for managing global NPD and business change projects, coordinating across various departments, and mentoring a team of project managers.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have extensive project management experience, particularly within the food-based FMCG industry, and a proven track record of delivering complex projects. Strong leadership skills, experience in managing direct reports, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders are essential requirements.
Full description
Job Description
Are You Ready to Make An Impact at Grenade?
Grenade is an international active nutrition and lifestyle brand, which has grown rapidly since its launch in 2010. Driven by its strong branding, distinctive products, and highly innovative approach, Grenade has made an explosive impact in the FMCG Industry! Today, Grenade’s Protein Bar is the UK’s best-selling, and we continue to innovate with our leading range of Shakes, and performance nutrition.
Reporting to the Head of Product, the Senior Project Manager plays a critical role in driving global business change, overseeing a broad portfolio of initiatives including innovation, renovation, maintenance, seasonal, geographic expansion, and productivity. The role is central to evolving and embedding governance in a fast-growing global business, leading a team of Project Managers, and collaborating closely with senior leaders to provide clear updates, navigate complexity, and deliver effective solutions.
Joining Grenade’s high-performing team, during this exciting period of growth and brand expansion, promises to offer a unique and motivating working environment, with highly rewarding opportunities for personal and professional development.
How you will contribute
You will:
- End-to-end project leadership: Lead the delivery of complex, cross-functional initiatives from concept through to launch, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to agreed scope.
- Cross-functional stakeholder management: Engage, align, and influence senior stakeholders across the business, constructively resolving conflict and driving fact-based, outcome-focused decision-making.
- Portfolio delivery: Manage global NPD, renovation, and business change initiatives, coordinating inputs across packaging, recipe development, manufacturing, and regulatory functions.
- Governance: Establish, embed, and maintain robust project governance frameworks, including stage-gate processes, risk management, steering committees, RAG status, and clear, actionable reporting.
- Risk management: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks and dependencies, escalating issues appropriately to protect timelines, cost, and quality.
- Continuous improvement: Champion best practice in project management, evolving tools, processes, and ways of working to support the needs of a rapidly growing global business.
- Leadership and capability building: Lead, coach, and mentor Project Managers and cross-functional team members to build capability, consistency, and high performance.
- Strategic alignment and prioritisation: Support portfolio prioritisation to ensure projects and resource allocation align with AC strategic priorities and operational capability.
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
- Extensive project management experience: Proven track record of delivering complex, cross-functional projects
- FMCG background: notably within food
- Flexibility: deep understanding of delivering projects within a complex process, as well as experience working with a start-up approach and able to tailor ways-of-working to accommodate where necessary.
- Supply chain exposure: hands-on experience of collaborating with an array of teams
- Governance experience: operating at a senior level, steering groups and influencing decision-making, confidently challenging stakeholders where necessary
- People leadership: experience in mentoring or line-managing
- 2 x direct reports (project managers)
The responsibilities of this position are performed within the framework of a regional business model that is defined and managed by Mondelēz Europe GmbH, Switzerland.
Business Unit Summary
Mondelēz International, Inc. empowers people to snack right in over 150 countries around the world. We are leading the future of snacking with mouth-watering iconic brands such as Oreo, belVita, LU and Ritz biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Green & Blacks, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Philadelphia and Dairylea cheese; and Maynards Bassetts, Trebor and Trident gums. Our more than 80,000 colleagues around the world are key to the success of our business. Great people and great brands. That’s who we are. Join us on our journey to continue leading the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way.
Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Job Type
Regular
Project and Program Management
Business Capability
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