Project Manager in Watford

As a Project Manager, you’ll take the lead in managing complex, cross-functional, international programs that drive real business value. You’ll work across departments and geographies to help shape EPSON’s digital future, enabling teams to embrace change and new ways of working through world-class project execution. You'll support the entire project lifecycle—from initiation and planning to delivery and closure—ensuring alignment to business strategy, stakeholder expectations, and high-quality outcomes.

What you will do:

• You will manage assigned complex/multiple projects or programs and ensure that the agreed project objectives are realised on time, to high standards, and within the agreed budget.
• Lead interrelated strategic initiatives that contribute to a common business objective, ensuring alignment of deliverables, interdependencies, and stakeholder expectations across multiple project teams.

Project Initiation:

• Set up the Project Organisation including the change management approach.
• Facilitate value stream mapping (AS IS), and initial business requirements workshops aimed at creating detailed business requirements including financial impact and ROI, to be presented to the Project Board for approval.

Project Planning:

• Prepare and allocate the costs associated with the project for the sponsor’s approval.
• Manage the vendor selection process, including contract negotiations for the selected vendor.
• Facilitate Design workshops and finalize the scope.
• Create a project plan in consultation with the relevant internal customers.
• Ensure that the project team is engaged and allocated resources are available within the framework of the project plan to guarantee the realisation of the project objectives.
• Align program scope and individual project charters to overarching business strategy and transformation objectives. Ensure cohesive delivery across workstreams.

Project Delivery:

• Realise the implementation of the project and the change management plans.
• Ensure quality standards and the change management stream are realised and met.
• Submit regular reports and communications within the framework of the project plan and according to the PMO standards so that the project objectives and benefits approved by the Project Board are laid down in the Project Charter can be met.
• Provide oversight across project teams, enabling cross-project collaboration, and removing blockers at the program level to ensure coordinated delivery.

Project Closure:

• Identify gaps and develop actions to sustain change management outcomes.
• Guarantee the relevant knowledge and documentation (including Process Flows, SIPOC and Value Stream Mapping TO BE) transfer to the final internal or external stakeholders.
• Ensure successful closure, celebrate success, and make sure the lessons learned are documented, archived, and shared with the stakeholders.
• Conduct program-level retrospectives to capture cross-project lessons learned and sustain enterprise-wide improvements.

What we ask for:

• Experience in Project Management within an international commercial organisation.
• Ability to use Project Management tools (i.e., MS Project, Jira, Azure DevOps).
• Change Management certificate (i.e., PROSCI).
• Detail orientated without losing sight of the bigger picture.
• Deadline focused with the ability to consistently maintain high-level of accuracy.
• Critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills, capable of visualising a problem context/situation, develop resolution options.
• Excellent analytical skills and able to translate findings into business-friendly language.
• Excellent level of English (verbal and written); additional European language skills would be beneficial.

We are keen to hear from you even if you don’t match all listed requirements, but you identify with our brand and passion for innovation.

What we offer:

We aspire to be an indispensable company, trusted throughout the world for our commitment to openness, customer satisfaction and sustainability. We respect individuality while promoting teamwork, and we are committed to delivering unique value through innovative and creative solutions.

Our commitment to the environment:

We all have a role to play in building a better future. For Epson, being a sustainable company means being mindful of every aspect of our organisation – from the smallest lightbulb to the largest factory. It fuels our innovation, drives our growth, motivates our workforce and, ultimately, contributes to society.

Our people:

We believe a healthy culture, strong values, teamwork, and contribution from a diverse range of individuals will help us to strive for excellence.

Our brand:

Ranked by Clarivate Analytics as a Top 100 Global Innovator brand for the last seven years running.