Business Project Manager (FTC - 2 years) in Leeds

Why Greencore? We’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better. As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, soups, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY24, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.8bn. Our extensive direct‑to‑store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

What is the MBE Programme, and why is now an exciting time to join as a Business Project Manager? Over time, our business processes have grown increasingly complex—raising both risk and cost, while limiting our agility. Meanwhile, customer expectations and market demands continue to rise. The Making Business Easier (MBE) Programme is a cornerstone of our drive for commercial and operational excellence, helping us manage our cost base more effectively and prepare for future growth. The MBE Programme is focused on streamlining and simplifying core processes, improving access to high‑quality business data, and investing in the right technologies to support these improvements.

As a Business Project Manager, you’ll collaborate with colleagues across the organisation and champion best practices that elevate our ways of working.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the delivery of our Time & Attendance and Workforce Management projects within the MBE Programme—planning, monitoring, managing, and reporting on deliverables, tasks, milestones, budgets, and resources.
• Develop and maintain detailed well‑structured and accurate project plans aligned with project management standards that monitor and track progress so that all agreed scope, deliverables and milestones are achieved successfully and in line with approved timelines.
• Manage the scope of project requirements to ensure that scope change does not occur without following formal change control processes.
• Develop and maintain detailed cost forecasts to monitor and track project spend so that deliverables and milestones are delivered within approved budgets.
• Co‑ordinate all people resources required to deliver the project, both internal and external, to ensure smooth delivery of projects by avoiding unplanned availability challenges or “bottlenecks”.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders to manage expectations and ensure project alignment, maintaining regular clear, consistent, and timely two‑way communication with stakeholders, ensuring they are well‑informed and involved.
• Perform risk management to minimise project risks, ensuring that the risk register is maintained with risks assessed and mitigation activities understood, documented, and managed appropriately.
• Ensure project deliverables meet the required quality, compliance and project documentation standards.
• Ensure project inter‑dependencies are identified and captured across the broader MBE programme and wider business.

What we’re looking for:

• Project management experience and working knowledge of multiple project management methodologies (e.g. Waterfall, Agile).
• Relevant project management qualifications (e.g. Prince II, Certified Scrum Master).
• Significant experience managing digital transformation projects and specifically implementations of workforce management.
• Proficiency in project management software (e.g., MS Project, Planview, Jira) and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Experience leading and providing guidance to a team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of engaging effectively with a diverse group of stakeholders.
• Analytical and problem‑solving abilities to address project challenges.
• Exceptional organisational and time‑management skills to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Proficient in identifying risks and implementing mitigation strategies.
• Problem‑solving skills to address issues, manage conflicting objectives and adapt to changing project requirements and environments.
• Ability to prioritise effort activities across a wide range of independent issues to maximise resource spend into high‑benefit activities and minimise negative impacts.

What you’ll get in return:

• Competitive salary and job‑related benefits.
• Holidays.
• Car Allowance.
• Annual Target Bonus.
• Pension up to 8% matched.
• Life insurance up to 4x salary.
• PMI Cover.
• Company share save scheme.
• Greencore Qualifications.
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform.
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform.