* Lead a central operations-focused to directly shape product delivery success.
* Drive end-to-end product launches with real influence and visibility.
About Our Client
A leading consumer products manufacturer is seeking a New Product Operations Project Manager to oversee the end-to-end implementation of new products - ensuring they are viable, compliant, costed, tested, operationally ready and delivered on time.
This role leads a team of three Project Managers and plays a key part in shaping how the organisation introduces new products across a variety of markets.
Job Description
* Lead and develop a team of project managers, each managing their own portfolio of new product projects, providing coaching, structure, and guidance.
* Oversee your own portfolio of high-priority, strategic projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and long-term product strategy.
* Coordinate cross-functionally across Purchasing, New Product Development, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Logistics, and Quality, ensuring all teams are aligned, informed, and meeting project milestones.
* Work with the Purchasing team to manage supplier timelines, material availability, cost implications, and risk, feeding insights into project planning and decision-making.
* Collaborate with New Product, Sales, and Marketing teams to turn market insights and customer requirements into operationally viable product plans.
* Partner with Operations and Logistics to assess production feasibility, capacity constraints, and scheduling, ensuring realistic and achievable delivery roadmaps.
* Use complex data sets, project KPIs, and advanced technology tools to track progress, forecast risks, support decision-making, and optimize resource allocation.
* Maintain oversight of compliance, quality, testing, and fit-for-purpose requirements, ensuring operational and regulatory standards are met for all launches.
* Drive continuous improvement, identifying new ways of working, better processes, and smarter use of technology across projects.
* Act as the central point for issue resolution and escalation, ensuring timely decisions by bringing the right experts together.
* Provide clear, actionable reporting to senior stakeholders, highlighting project status, risks, interdependencies, and strategic impact.
The Successful Applicant
* Proven experience managing a portfolio of complex, cross-functional projects from concept to delivery.
* Strong people leadership skills, including coaching and developing a team of project managers or coordinators.
* Experience leading strategic projects with business impact, balancing operational, commercial, and long-term objectives.
* Skilled at coordinating specialist teams (Purchasing, Product, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Quality) to deliver aligned outcomes.
* Comfortable working with complex data and project tools to track progress, inform decisions, and manage roadmaps.
* Commercially aware, able to manage costs, forecasts, and trade-offs effectively.
* Strong stakeholder management and communication skills for senior leadership updates.
* Experience in manufacturing, operations, or product-focused environments preferred but not essential.
* Resilient, adaptable, and solutions-focused, able to manage competing priorities and deliver results.
What's on Offer
* Competitive salary of £55,000, with potential progression as the role and remit expand.
* Hybrid working model, based in Lancashire / North West, balancing office collaboration with flexibility.
* A highly progressive role at the heart of the business, leading cross-functional projects and shaping new product implementation.
* Opportunity to grow the role in line with business strategy, taking on an even wider remit and more strategic responsibility in the future.
* Lead a talented, capable team, with the chance to develop people, introduce structure, and make a lasting impact.
* Exposure to complex, high-profile projects, working with multiple functions, stakeholders, and advanced project management tools.
* Join a business that values innovation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement, with clear visibility of your contribution.
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