Join Grenade as a Senior Project Manager based in Birmingham, United Kingdom, on a full-time, regular basis. In this role, you will lead end-to-end global business change initiatives, drive project governance, and mentor a team of Project Managers within a fast-growing active nutrition brand.
Experience in supply chain collaboration and senior-level governance
People leadership and line management experience, including direct reports
No specific degree requirement stated in the posting
Skills & Responsibilities
Project Leadership: Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from concept to launch on time and within budget.
Stakeholder Management: Engage and influence senior stakeholders, driving outcome-focused decision-making and resolving conflict.
Governance Frameworks: Establish and maintain robust project governance, including stage-gate processes and risk management.
People Leadership: Coach and mentor Project Managers and cross-functional team members to build high performance.
Potential transition routes: People from Project Management or Operations roles in FMCG or food manufacturing may bring transferable stakeholder management and supply chain skills, alongside meeting project delivery requirements.
Job description
Job Description
Are You Ready to Make An Impact at Grenade?
Grenade is an international active nutrition and lifestyle brand, which has grown rapidly since its launch in 2010. Driven by its strong branding, distinctive products, and highly innovative approach, Grenade has made an explosive impact in the FMCG Industry! Today, Grenade’s Protein Bar is the UK’s best-selling, and we continue to innovate with our leading range of Shakes, and performance nutrition.
Reporting to the Head of Product, the Senior Project Manager plays a critical role in driving global business change, overseeing a broad portfolio of initiatives including innovation, renovation, maintenance, seasonal, geographic expansion, and productivity. The role is central to evolving and embedding governance in a fast-growing global business, leading a team of Project Managers, and collaborating closely with senior leaders to provide clear updates, navigate complexity, and deliver effective solutions.
Joining Grenade’s high-performing team, during this exciting period of growth and brand expansion, promises to offer a unique and motivating working environment, with highly rewarding opportunities for personal and professional development.
How you will contribute
You will:
End-to-end project leadership: Lead the delivery of complex, cross-functional initiatives from concept through to launch, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to agreed scope.
Cross-functional stakeholder management: Engage, align, and influence senior stakeholders across the business, constructively resolving conflict and driving fact-based, outcome-focused decision-making.
Portfolio delivery: Manage global NPD, renovation, and business change initiatives, coordinating inputs across packaging, recipe development, manufacturing, and regulatory functions.
Governance: Establish, embed, and maintain robust project governance frameworks, including stage-gate processes, risk management, steering committees, RAG status, and clear, actionable reporting.
Risk management: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks and dependencies, escalating issues appropriately to protect timelines, cost, and quality.
Continuous improvement: Champion best practice in project management, evolving tools, processes, and ways of working to support the needs of a rapidly growing global business.
Leadership and capability building: Lead, coach, and mentor Project Managers and cross-functional team members to build capability, consistency, and high performance.
Strategic alignment and prioritisation: Support portfolio prioritisation to ensure projects and resource allocation align with AC strategic priorities and operational capability.
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
Extensive project management experience: Proven track record of delivering complex, cross-functional projects
FMCG background: notably within food
Flexibility: deep understanding of delivering projects within a complex process, as well as experience working with a start-up approach and able to tailor ways-of-working to accommodate where necessary.
Supply chain exposure: hands-on experience of collaborating with an array of teams
Governance experience: operating at a senior level, steering groups and influencing decision-making, confidently challenging stakeholders where necessary
People leadership: experience in mentoring or line-managing
2 x direct reports (project managers)
The responsibilities of this position are performed within the framework of a regional business model that is defined and managed by Mondelēz Europe GmbH, Switzerland.
Business Unit Summary
Mondelēz International, Inc. empowers people to snack right in over 150 countries around the world. We are leading the future of snacking with mouth-watering iconic brands such as Oreo, belVita, LU and Ritz biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Green & Blacks, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Philadelphia and Dairylea cheese; and Maynards Bassetts, Trebor and Trident gums. Our more than 80,000 colleagues around the world are key to the success of our business. Great people and great brands. That’s who we are. Join us on our journey to continue leading the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way.
Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
