Are you looking for new challenges and personal growth within Coca-Cola Europacific Partners? Then we have a great opportunity for you!Do you have a personality with the power to influence and connect?Can you sustain the pace to keep on growing?Will you make an impact with your desire to win? Advert Closing Date: 23/03/26 Please note that this role is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract .Role to be based out of one of the 5 GB Manufacturing sites but will require travel to other sites Annual performance related pay bonus and pay reviews Share scheme Competitive pension contributions Range of flexible benefits and corporate discounts including childcare vouchers, holiday buy/sell scheme, optional health care and life assurance Purpose of the role: Are you passionate about transforming manufacturing performance at scale? Do you thrive on driving impactful improvement programmes and unlocking capacity across complex operations? If so, this is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of our GB Manufacturing Network. We’re looking for a Senior Manager, Manufacturing Project Development to lead high-value initiatives, enhance sustainability, introduce technological innovation, and deliver performance breakthroughs across our sites. This is a national role with influence across multiple functions and leadership teams. Key responsibilities: In this high-impact role, you will: Lead and deliver key improvement initiatives across GB Manufacturing to enhance sustainability and operational performance. Develop and embed a robust bottleneck identification and improvement strategy across all GB sites to unlock additional capacity through targeted capex and opex. Support the rollout of major central programmes — including £100m initiatives and sustainability projects — across the GB network. Partner with the GB QSE team to identify and implement technology that drives improvements in Quality, Safety and Environmental metrics. Collaborate with central functions to pinpoint and deliver opportunities to increase network-wide capacity. Who you’ll work with Internal: GB Manufacturing, QSE and OE leads Central CSSC teams: OE, Asset Care, QESH Leaders and experts across all GB manufacturing sites People & Culture teams including L&D and business partners External: OEMs, accreditation bodies and auditors Skills & Essentials: Strong background in FMCG or large-scale manufacturing environments. Understanding of health & safety, environmental and food quality standards. Proven track record delivering large-scale programmes across multiple sites. Hands-on operational or technical experience and demonstrated leadership ability. Practical experience in continuous improvement and delivering projects on time and within budget. Qualifications Degree in Engineering or Science (preferred). Technical Skills Health, Safety & Environmental compliance Quality management Operational processes Process improvement Sustainability Engineering capability The closing date for applications is 23/03/26. We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of applications. To ensure you are considered for this role, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) – a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries, who work together to make, move and sell some of the world’s most loved drinks.We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We help our 2.1 million customers grow, and we are constantly investing in exciting new products, innovative technologies and fresh ideas. This helps us to delight the 600 million people who enjoy our drinks every day. From gender, age and ethnicity to sexual orientation and different abilities, we welcome people from all walks of life and empower unique perspectives. We recognise we’ve got some way to go, but we’ll get there with the support of our people. It’s them who drive our future growth. To find out more about what it’s like to work at and our culture we would welcome you to speak to one of our employees on our live chat platform, just click here to speak to an insider We recognise some people prefer not to participate in alcohol related sales, interactions, or promotions. If that’s true for you – please raise this with your talent acquisition contact who will advise you on whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.