Project Manager

As a Central Project Delivery Project Manager you will deliver commercial, multi-disciplinary projects to hit our strategic objectives, working with all departments across the business, engaging stakeholders at all levels. You will ensure an effective delivery of people, technology and process change forming cross-functional project teams to deliver simple, pragmatic and effective solutions.

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…

Your role as Central Project Delivery Project Manager: 

• Maintain a structured approach to project management, ensuring projects are delivered to time, quality and cost expectations
• Manage the project through the key stages of the project lifecycle ensuring authorisation to proceed is obtained from the project board
• Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables and document in project brief and initiation documentation
• Define and gain agreement to the project business case using clear cost/benefit analysis
• Work with senior stakeholders and Business Analysts to analyse requirements, define business requirements and the required project outputs to deliver benefits
• Define the project activities and plan required to deliver the project outputs

What you’ll bring… 

• Experience of delivery in a digital environment such as successful implementations and adoption of apps, websites or loyalty solutions
• Experience in delivering change using waterfall and/or agile methodologies
• 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 and brands
• Proficient in successfully running cross functional projects with a commercial focus
• Experienced in running large scale budget projects
• A hands-on leader with demonstrable experience of establishing and managing cross functional project teams