Project Manager

Job Introduction

Hybrid/Bellshill

Established in 1887, William Grant & Sons is an independent, family owned distiller with Scottish roots and a global reach. A new opportunity has arisen for a Project Manager for our Product and Replenishment team within the GTS organisation based in Bellshill.  

The Project Manager will plan, organise and direct the completion of specific projects alongside the business while ensuring these are delivered on time, on budget, and within scope. Support the Product teams with the completion and operation of the projects and applying the appropriate delivery methodologies to maximise the value created by the team. 

Main Responsibility

• Collaborate with the business and GTS stakeholders regarding priorities and requirements ensuring alignment with business objectives
• Support Product Owner in ensuring the Product team remains focused on delivery, utilising suitable delivery methodology in line with the agreed timescales
• Support Product owner in estimating capacity and managing budget for specific project in scope in a cost-effective manner within budget
• Identify, manage and report on project risks, risk mitigation measures and escalating to overall governance forums to ensure risks are managed proactively and effectively
• Align on global rollout timelines with Business and GTS stakeholders ensuring business objectives are met
• Lead the appropriate support definition to ensure handover to support and service transition is completed at end of the project in line with Business objectives in a timely manner
• Share best practices and learnings, as required; train, coach and mentor the team to deliver value using agreed project management methodologies
• Share learnings through communities of practice (CoP) across Product teams and project managers on specific topics e.g. functionality testing, issue resolution ensuring adherence to best practice and governance.
• Facilitate discussions, decision-making, conflict resolution ensuring issues and performance improvements are captured and executed meeting defined project targets

Our Ideal Candidate

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
• 3-5 years of proven experience as project leader who can control a budget, manage the delivery of a solution, lead individuals within agreed upon timescales, and ensure a successful result / customer satisfaction.
• Strong communication, process, logical thinking and organisation skills.
• Formally trained in project management (preferably Prince2 or agile methodology) and business analysis.
• Comprehensive understanding of project lifecycle methodologies, change control, technical infrastructure and IT service management.
• Capable of working across multiple, concurrent projects while maintaining independence of action, demonstrating the ability to prioritise activities and escalate issues appropriately.
• Proficient with setting up and managing a project schedule and supporting control documentation using various software tools - monitoring planned vs actual effort.

What we can offer you

• We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
• Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
• Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
• Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
• Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues. 
• Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
• Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
• Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
• Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
• Learning resources to help you be your best self.

About William Grant & Sons

A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS

William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.

We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.

At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.

OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY

Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.

INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive. If you have any questions or need some support with your application we’d love to hear from you. So please get in touch with our HR team at recruitment.enquiries@wgrant.com.

We want to make sure that all applicants are treated equally. To support this we will anonymise all applications during the screening stage. Details such as name, dates and educational establishments will only be visible to the recruitment team and hiring leader once an applicant is invited to interview, these details are hidden during the screening stage. To be able to anonymise applications they all need to be in the same format. You can upload a CV but we would also ask you to complete an application form – your CV will not be visible during screening. We hope you agree that this is good use of your time to help ensure a fair recruitment process.