Project Manager

As a Project Manager you will be responsible for scoping out project from the beginning and ensuring they align with Greene King's strategic goals and operational excellence. Your day to day will involve collaborating with cross-functional teams, managing timelines and budgets and proactively solving problems. You'll support your team by providing clear direction, removing obstacles. 

Join us at Greene King the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. We have something special, deeply rooted in our 220-year brewing and pub history, creating the business we are proudly known for today. Still today our 39,000 strong team are the guardians of what’s wholly British, the pub experience.  

We’re all about rewarding our team’s hard work, that’s why…

You’ll receive a competitive salary, pension contribution as well as:

• The chance to further your career across our well-known brands – as one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career. 
• Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands – so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.
• Free employee assistance program – mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support because you matter!
• Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels. – so you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank.
• Refer a friend – who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you could earn £1,500 for referring them!
• Wagestream – access your wage before payday for when life happens.
• Retail discounts – Receive up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile along with many more…

​​​​​​In your role as Project Manager you will...

• Strategic Project Management – project planned and execution with the ability to develop detailed project plans, scope, timelines, milestones, and deliverables, whilst ensuring effective execution and tracking project success. Capability to manage multiple projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, resource allocation, and prioritization based on business value
• Cross Function Collaboration – interdepartmental communication and the skills to facilitate this, ensuring relevant stakeholders stay engaged through project lifecycles. Team building to create and nurture a cohesive team environment, fostering collaboration, trust and accountability
• Change Management – organizational change expertise with knowledge and skills to manage change processes, including preparing teams for change, addressing resistance and ensuring smooth transition of projects to BAU. Proficiency in identifying and engaging stakeholders, understanding their needs and effectively communicating benefits and impacts of strategic projects
• Governance and Compliance with the ability to establish and maintain a governance framework that outlines roles, responsibilities and decision-making process for project delivery (including regulatory and compliance knowledge
• Financial Acumen for project budget development, monitor of expenditure, conduct financial analysis to ensure projects are delivered within budget and maximizing ROI. Cost benefits analysis to evaluate financial implications of project decisions and assess economic viability of proposed initiatives

What you’ll bring… 

• Experienced in delivering commercially focused projects for a fast paced, high growth, complex business, ideally in a retail and/or wholesale environment (but not essential), with projects that cut across multiple operating companies
• Proficient in successfully running cross functional projects with a commercial focus, demonstrating stakeholder management and the ability to influence at all levels
• A hands-on leader with strong communication and relationship skills, with demonstrable experience of establishing and managing cross functional project teams
• Able to understand and establish business requirements and create structured plans over the short and long term
• An experienced Project Manager who can hit the ground running, with the ability to deliver software solutions as well as people and progress change