Business & Change Senior Project Manager

Business & Change Senior Project Manager

The Business & Change Senior Project Manager will lead projects focused on people readiness, operating model change and operational execution to support Essentra's growth and transformation ambitions.

Ensuring that new propositions, ways of working and go to market models can be successfully adopted and executed at scale across supply chain, customer services, commercial and frontline operations.

This role is suited to an experienced senior project manager with a strong operational and change background, who can translate strategic ambition into practical, workable operational outcomes and ensure change lands effectively across the organisation.

The role will work closely with operational leaders, HR, supply chain, customer services and enabling teams to ensure initiatives are operationally viable, embedded, and sustainable.

Typical Accountabilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of organisational change and operational fulfilment workstreams within the broader programme
• Define clear scopes, plans, milestones, and dependencies aligned with overall programme objectives
• Ensure operations are fully prepared for new propositions, processes, and tools ahead of launch and scaling
• Monitor delivery progress, risks, and dependencies, escalating issues and proposing mitigations as needed

Organisational Change & People Readiness

• Lead change planning across impacted business areas, including capability uplift, role clarity, ways of working and adoption support
• Work closely with functional leaders to ensure people, process and behaviour changes are embedded
• Support development of change, communications and engagement plans in line with programme objectives
• Ensure change impacts are understood and managed across regions and teams
• Work with supply chain, operations, customer service and commercial teams to ensure operating models can support growth ambitions
• Translate programme requirements into operational processes, controls and business readiness plans

Governance & Stakeholder Management

• Apply Essentra PMO standards, ensuring consistent governance, planning and reporting
• Prepare updates for programme leadership, sponsors and SteerCo, highlighting progress, risks and decisions requiredAct as a central point of coordination across business, technology and enabling teams
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and operational leaders

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven experience delivering complex business, change or transformation initiatives
• Strong background in operational delivery, organisational change or business transformation
• Ability to translate strategic intent into practical, operational outcomes
• Experience working across multiple business functions
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills
• Excellent planning, risk management and delivery discipline
• Demonstrable project management experience, including planning, dependency management, risk/issues, and delivery governance
• Experience working closely with frontline operational teams and leaders, ensuring change is practical, adoptable and sustainable
• Experience delivering operating model change, workforce transformation or fulfilment optimisation initiatives
• Exposure to change management methodologies and people led transformation
• Experience working in global or multi site environments
• Familiarity with manufacturing, distribution or B2B environments

What we offer

• Discretionary Annual Bonus
• Private Family Medical Insurance
• Up to 5% matched pension contribution
• 4x annual salary life assurance
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Extra paid day off for your birthday
• Paid day off for volunteering
• Employee discounts through MyDiscounts platform
• Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

Location

This is a hybrid role, with 3 days per week based in either our Oxford or Jarrow office