At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead exciting projects from start to finish while collaborating with diverse teams.
- Company: Join Kao, a globally recognised ethical company with a vibrant culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible working, competitive pay, health perks, and growth opportunities.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse team committed to making life beautiful.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a supportive environment that values innovation and teamwork.
- Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years in project management or business analysis.
The predicted salary is between 60750 - 74250 £ per year.
We are Kao, listed as one of the world’s most ethical companies for the last 20 years. Our EMEA brand portfolio spans across three sectors; Consumer Care, Professional Hair, and Molton Brown. Our corporate philosophy, The Kao Way, guides us in everything we do – acting with integrity, courageously driving innovation, and treating each other with trust and respect.
About our role: The Project Manager is responsible for leading projects from initiation through completion while providing analytical support across business processes, requirements, reporting, and stakeholder decision-making. You will develop and manage project plans, coordinate cross-functional teams, track progress against objectives, manage risks and issues, and support governance and financial oversight. You will partner with business, technology, vendor, and regional stakeholders to define requirements, assess impacts, facilitate decision-making, and ensure successful delivery of strategic initiatives. The role combines project management, business analysis, and delivery coordination to drive business outcomes and operational readiness.
What you will do:
- Project Planning and Delivery Management: Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, actions, decisions, budgets, and resource needs. Coordinate work across internal teams, vendors, and business stakeholders to keep delivery on track and aligned to approved goals.
- Business Analysis and Requirements Definition: Partner with business and technology stakeholders to understand needs, document requirements, map processes, assess business and system impacts, support prioritisation decisions, and identify opportunities for process improvement.
- Execution, Monitoring, Reporting, AI Automation: Prepare clear status updates, dashboards, summaries, governance materials, and leverage AI-powered and automation tools to improve reporting efficiency and decision support.
- Stakeholder, Vendor, and Cross-Functional Solution Coordination: Facilitate communication across business teams, technology teams, vendors, and leadership stakeholders. Manage expectations, support prioritisation discussions, follow up on open items, and ensure teams remain aligned on scope, timing, responsibilities, and outcomes.
- Risk, Change, Governance, and Transition Support: Identify and manage risks, issues, scope changes, and dependencies throughout the project life cycle. Support governance processes, change control, financial tracking, testing readiness, training coordination, lessons learned, and transition to ongoing operations.
What you will need:
- Bachelor’s Degree/4 year Business Degree required.
- 5+ years of relevant experience. Relevant experience should include a combination of project management, business analysis, process improvement, and technology delivery support.
- Ideal experience includes:
- Project Life Cycle: Leading or supporting end-to-end project life cycles from initiation to closure.
- Project Plans: Managing project plans, timelines, risks, issues, actions, decisions, and status reporting.
- Business Requirements: Gathering and documenting business requirements, process flows, user needs, and solution impacts.
- Stakeholder Delivery Management: Working with business stakeholders, technology teams, vendors, and regional partners to align scope and delivery expectations.
- Multi-Task Management: Supporting multiple concurrent projects, workstreams, or initiatives.
- Methodologies: Applying project management methods such as waterfall, agile, or hybrid delivery.
- Communicating Across Org Levels: Translating complex information into clear executive summaries, decision materials, and project updates.
- Tool Fluency: Using project and portfolio tools to maintain project data, reporting, financial tracking, and governance updates (Planview Pro, Asana, etc.).
- Change Management: Supporting change management, testing coordination, training readiness, and operational transition activities.
At Kao, we believe the diversity of our teams strengthens our global mission. Here we trust and respect each other, collaborating in a friendly and inclusive work environment to achieve great results.
What you can expect from us:
- An entrepreneurial environment where passionate and innovative teams come together.
- Respect, teamwork and collaboration are at the heart of how we work.
- A workplace culture that prioritises employee wellbeing, with opportunities to get involved in initiatives such as Mental Health First Aiders, our Charity Committee, and DE&I communities.
- A broad range of benefits, including flexible working, competitive salaries, health and wellbeing offers, pension schemes, insurance options, and more.
- Learning and development opportunities.
- Your voice matters here, we value entrepreneurial thinking and innovation from our teams.
IT Project Manager in London employer: Goldwell
At Kao, we pride ourselves on being an ethical employer that fosters a collaborative and inclusive work culture. Our commitment to employee wellbeing is reflected in our flexible working options, competitive salaries, and extensive learning and development opportunities, all set against the backdrop of our vibrant UK office. Join us to be part of a passionate team that values innovation and respects diverse perspectives, making a meaningful impact in the beauty and personal care industry.
