Senior Project Manager

Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller, which employs over 31,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Müller develops, manufactures, and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from 1,300 farmers in Britain. Müller is ranked within the top 20 in The Grocer’s Top 100 list of Britain’s Biggest Brands and is picked from shelves millions of times each year.

Müller UK & Ireland includes: Müller Milk & Ingredients, which aims to be Britain’s private label dairy leader and produces branded and private label fresh milk, cream, butter, and ingredients products. It boasts a network of dairies and depots servicing customers throughout the country. Müller Yogurt & Desserts, which is the UK’s leading yogurt manufacturer, aims to create millions more Müller moments for its consumers. It is responsible for major brands like Müller Corner, Müllerlight, Müller Bliss, Müller Rice, FRijj, and Müller Kefir Smoothie and produces chilled desserts under license from Mondelez International. Müller has been a loved brand in the UK for over 30 years. It’s a household name – and it continues to grow as we invest to make and market an ever-greater range of fantastic dairy products.

We are looking to welcome a Senior Project Manager with SAP project delivery experience to our team. It’s a fantastic opportunity to join an exciting team; we’re looking for an experienced individual who will be responsible for the planning, execution, and successful delivery of group-wide, strategic projects. You will lead projects, plan resources, and govern those projects according to strict deadlines and within set and agreed budget, while adhering to relevant Müller policies, especially GO, rules, and guidelines. The role is located at East Kilbride with a hybrid working model with 3 days on site.

Your challenge for the Senior Project Manager:

• Project Management
  • Work with key stakeholders, project teams, and others when relevant to facilitate the definition of the project scope, requirements, and deliverables and define project tasks (work breakdown structure) and resource requirements using Müller standard documentation;
  • Manage the project budget in line with business expectations and budgetary commitments;
  • Develop, control, and communicate the project plan, timeline, and milestones and track and report project deliverables;
  • Manage Risk, Issues, and Changes on an ongoing basis;
  • Ensure that any deliverables requiring support in steady state are handed over to the relevant teams;
  • Close the project, ensuring lessons learned are documented;
  • Follow applicable policies, framework, standards, and guidelines that have been identified for the particular project.
• Resource Management
  • Acquire resources (internal and nominated 3rd party, if required) and co-ordinate team members in order to deliver projects according to plan and budget;
  • Assemble and co-ordinate project team (Business, IT, and External);
  • Negotiate with resource owners and as required, ensure that project targets are provided for project resource;
  • Where 3rd party contract negotiations are required, the Project Manager will work with the relevant procurement team to ensure that procedures are followed;
  • Ensure that appropriate project team training is planned for.
• Stakeholder Management
  • Identify and liaise with Key Stakeholders to provide applicable governance for the project;
  • Identify and agree participation of Project Sponsor;
  • Where required - creation of the Project Board and Project Steering Groups;
  • Regularly monitor and report progress to all stakeholders and the steering group – at all levels across the group.

Key skills & experience for the Senior Project Manager:

• Bachelor’s degree;
• Expert in Project Management, e.g. Qualification in Project Management methodology or equivalent;
• Experience in managing SAP deployments; experience with S/4 Hana is beneficial;
• Ability to actively advance projects and manage change processes, incl. cultural ones;
• Experience in agile project management methodology is beneficial;
• General commercial and business management know-how;
• >5 years' work experience with background in strategy consulting (min. 2-3 years);
• Demonstratable confidence levels to engage with project managers and more senior stakeholders within the organisation;
• Passionate team player with hands-on mentality;
• Ability to work on several parallel workstreams;
• High ability to solve conflicts and problems, assertiveness, and resilience;
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills – German language skills are beneficial;
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills;
• Willingness to frequently travel (mainly in Europe and UK).

Müller pride ourselves on offering support to help develop your knowledge and skills. In return for your commitment, drive, and enthusiasm, we offer our employees numerous benefits as part of your employment, including:

• Competitive Salary / Car or Car allowance / Bonus scheme / PMI / Life Assurance / Contributory pension plan / Employee Assistance Programme - an easy-to-use app which offers guidance and care for your physical and mental health.
• There is a range of health and wellbeing services at the fingertips of Müller employees;
• Generous annual leave increasing with service;
• Flexible benefits programme;
• New and improved family-friendly policies for maternity, adoption/surrogacy and paternity/partner leave;
• Free onsite parking;
• In addition, our employees have access to a Rewards Benefits Programme providing an exclusive range of discounts across 800 retailers, utilities, holidays, and cinema tickets.

The Process If you have the skills and experience in the above areas and would like to be considered for this role, please apply at www.mullercareers.co.uk.