Job Ref: 215774454

Date: 2022-02-09 14:36:18

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Welcome to Hovis. We are the proud guardians of over 130 years of baking experience that make up our iconic and much-loved brand. We produce bread and bakery products created with Hovis goodness at the heart of each. We deliver around 1.3million loaves, every day of the week throughout the UK and Ireland, where we also make Mothers Pride and Ormo products.

We are 2,800 people working within 8 bakeries, 1 flour mill, and 2 regional distribution centres across the UK. Our success is a result of the hard work of our people; they are experts in their field whether it’s baking, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, or the many departments within the central functions team based in our head office in High Wycombe. We are a values-led business and expect our colleagues to live, breathe, and embed Quality, Accountability, and Trust into their ways of working.

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced and energetic Project Manager to join the marketing team, to enable Hovis to deliver on its vision of being the best quality brand in bakery. We are looking for a focused, diligent and ambitious project manager who will play a pivotal role in accelerating our growth through delivering NPD and EPD initiatives to market swiftly within the quality parameters set by the Project leads, as well as enhancing the
Hovis project management ways of working and processes. High quality and organised project management is key to achieving this success.

Working collaboratively with marketing project leads, central support functions across the Hovis network and third parties:

* To project manage the planning and delivery of our NPD, EPD and pack change of our Branded portfolio across Core Bread and Other Bakery from scoped definition through to launch and post launch review within the Hovis Stage & Gate process.

* To ensure that all owned projects are to be delivered within scope, time and budget to the agreed quality, on time and in full.

* Working closely with Senior Programme and Project Manager and Marketing project leads to support, and enhance, the project management governance via the Stage & Gate cycle and identify and drive improvements to our ways of working.

* Be responsible for detailed planning and the identification of risk, taking responsibility for working to remove obstacles quickly and efficiently via corrective actions.

* Create critical path timelines which identify and sequence the activities needed to successfully complete the projects and those responsible for the actions incorporating interdependencies and links with wider projects to deliver Hovis project solutions.

* Ensure tight control of project scope with clear approval process through, and including presentation of gate and project updates, to the monthly Stage & Gate for owned projects alongside any projects which have a change in scope.

The ideal candidate will be passionate not only about the work they do but the brand they work for, takes ownership of what they do, and is able to influence multiple stakeholders in the right way. They will relish challenges, have tenacity and determination, bring a “can do” to work, love working as part of a team, and think ahead to anticipate problems and find solutions.

Ideal Experiences / Qualifications / Capabilities:

Essential:

* Proven project management experience and a track record of delivering projects on time and in full (time, cost, quality)

* Evidence of having managed projects through a full cycle from scoped idea to in market delivery and post launch review

* Demonstrable experience of operating within a Stage & Gate process project management model

* Experience of management of multiple activities / projects simultaneously

* Experience in FMCG in a medium/large complex businesses

* Problem solving skills

* Proven collaborative, influencing and interpersonal skills in a cross functional environment

* Good and broad understanding of business process across relevant functions eg. Supply Chain, Marketing, Finance, Technical, Commercial

* Excellent verbal, written and presentational skills

* Commercial acumen and sound financial understanding

* 3 years + in FMCG, food, commercial, project management with developed skills as evidenced in managing challenging product to market projects.

Desirable

* Experience of multi-site environments

* Ability to use Google applications ( or willingness to learn!)

* University degree

Why work for us and our benefits:

At Hovis, we understand the importance of looking after our colleagues, so we provide a variety of benefits in addition to their salaries. The benefits we provide at Hovis are as varied as the people who receive them but they are offered with the intention of creating value to them personally over and above their salaries

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There is a range of colleague benefits available, which individuals can select based on their needs.

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Our benefits scheme is called Hovis Choice, which offers a variety of savings and cashback offers on day to day living and much more including eyecare vouchers, and a healthcare scheme to suit everyone. It also includes our Cycle to Work scheme where you can obtain a brand new bike at a significant saving

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We offer competitive annual leave entitlement and flexibility where possible in order to create a healthy work-life balance

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We celebrate loyalty with our generous long service and colleague recognition schemes

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We offer three levels of pensions

Hovis values diversity and is committed to promoting equal opportunities in the workplace. Every job applicant, employee or worker will be treated fairly and equally with dignity and respect regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, social class, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religious belief, union membership, political opinion, sex, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic

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