Project Manager

Job description:

Ready to deliver change that genuinely lands? Want to drive measurable outcomes across multiple teams and sites? Looking for a Project Manager role where your planning, leadership and stakeholder skills are truly valued?

We are currently looking for a Project Manager to join our busy team and help turn ambitious plans into real results across our K & Ireland business.

About Us:

Across the industrial design, manufacturing and maintenance worlds, we’re the digital destination for product and service solutions to help our customers with the maintenance, repair and operation of their businesses.

We provide global access to an unrivalled range of over 750,000 stocked industrial products. Each day our team of experts deliver solutions to resolve our customer’s challenges across design, procurement, inventory and maintenance. We consistently strive to deliver the best possible service to all of our customers and challenge ourselves to provide a seamless procurement experience.

We are one team. We deliver brilliantly. We do the right thing. We make every day better. These are our values. They unite our c.9,000 global colleagues and differentiate us from our competition. They are a mix of how we work today and how we must step up for the future. Most importantly, it is one set of values shaped by our people, for our people.

RS Group is organised into three regions: EMEA, APAC and the Americas. The UK & Ireland is the largest market within the EMEA region, and we have created business plans to grow from £700m of revenues to £1.5bn over the next 5 years through both organic and inorganic means.

BPX is a leading automation and control specialists in the UK & Ireland, operating through a network of locations across the UK and Ireland. The Group brings together complementary businesses including BPX, Control Components Anglia (CCA), Control and Drives Limited (CDL) and Leicester Switch & Controls (LSC). Across these businesses BPX Group offers field services and specialist support to help customers improve productivity, efficiency and resilience across a wide range of industrial sectors.

As part of RS Group, BPX offers the agility, entrepreneurial culture and customer focus of a specialist business alongside the scale, investment and career opportunities of a global organisation. This is an exciting opportunity to influence culture, develop talent and support a growing multi-site business through its next phase of growth and transformation while preserving the strong identity and values that have made BPX successful.

Main Duties:

You will drive the successful delivery of strategic and operational priorities within BPX, ensuring alignment with the wider market Value Driver Framework and our strategic objectives. Working closely with the Head of PMO, you’ll provide the structure, coordination and execution discipline needed to convert plans into measurable outcomes. This involved leading cross-functional initiatives, monitoring progress against key objectives, managing risks and dependencies, and ensuring agreed deliverables are delivered on time and to the required standard – while keeping delivery firmly connected to business, market and customer priorities.

Essential Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

Proven project management experience delivering complex cross-functional initiatives.

Demonstrable experience of supporting the people and adoption elements of business change, including stakeholder impact assessment, communications, training and transition into business as usual

Strong planning, organisation, and prioritisation skills.

Experience creating and managing project plans, timelines, and governance processes.

Ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.

Strong problem-solving and risk management capability.

Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.

Ability to influence stakeholders and drive accountability without direct authority.

Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and monitor performance.

Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail.

Self-starter with the resilience and tenacity to drive actions through to completion.

Results-focused mindset with a strong commitment to delivery.

Experience working in fast-paced and changing environments.

Strong relationship-building and collaboration skills.

Comfortable working across a decentralised, multi-site organisation and able to build credibility with operational, commercial and functional teams at every level.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

Experience supporting acquisition integration, transformation, or change programmes.

Knowledge of project governance and portfolio management practices.

Experience within a matrix organisation.

Familiarity with benefits realisation and performance tracking methodologies.

Experience developing executive-level reporting and dashboards.

Financial tracking, budgeting, or business case support experience.

Professional project management qualifications (PRINCE2, MSP, PMP, Agile or equivalent).

Experience working within industrial, distribution, manufacturing, or commercial environments.

BPX offers great benefits such as:

Minimum of 31 days annual leave including bank holidays (increasing with length of service)

Access to our training and development platform

Friendly and supportive work environment

Dress down Fridays

Access to the Employee Assistance Programme

Recruitment referral bonus

Opportunities for career progression

Cycle 2 Work scheme

Ability to carry forward unused holiday

Option to purchase additional annual leave

Free onsite parking

* Emergency loans

BPX remains a financially secure business, offering the chance to work within a happy, friendly company with some wonderful and talented people.

If you like a challenge and believe you are the right person to join our team, please click apply and upload your CV, we look forward to hearing from you!

We reserve the right to close the advert early when a suitable candidate is found.

No Agencies, please.