Own the UK Innovation and NPD project portfolio as the senior portfolio lead, providing strategic oversight of prioritisation, resource allocation, investment requirements, risks and expected commercial returns, while ensuring alignment to Ornua's strategic priorities and deployment of resources against the highest-value opportunities.
Challenge constructively where processes, RACIs or commitments are not being followed and building confidence in new ways of working across the business.
Define robust project scope, success criteria, commercial assumptions, resource requirements and critical milestones in collaboration with senior stakeholders, ensuring projects are set up to deliver measurable value.
Translate strategic priorities into detailed, actionable project plans, managing demanding timelines while maintaining clear visibility of progress, trade-offs, risks and required decisions.
Identify, assess and manage project dependencies, risks and issues, escalating with clear recommendations and enabling timely decision-making through high-quality analysis and judgement.
Establish and communicate project KPI/success metrics and own the master Project Tracker dashboards. These will include financial and commercial metrics, resource & budget tracking and recommendations for where improvements can be made.
Influence and advise internal and external senior stakeholders (UK SLT team & global senior colleagues, key customers eg Tesco, Sainsburys etc) are up to date with project status and performance. Provide regular monthly updates into UK SLT team. Able to hold your own in challenging situations and clearly articulate risks and opportunities to unlock quality decision making.
Drive a culture of continuous improvement leading transformation of the company's innovation operating mode by embedding learning from post-launch reviews, strengthening tools and methodologies, and encouraging teams to apply a growth mindset to future project delivery.
Contribute as a senior member of the Innovation and wider Commercial team, helping to build capability, collaboration and engagement across the business.
Develop project management capability within the team by providing structured coaching, guidance and practical support to a direct report who is building foundational project management experience, enabling them to grow confidence, ownership and competence in core project management disciplines

Are you an experienced and passionate Project Manager looking for the challenge of taking a mission driven organisation to its next level of success? Are you a natural problem solver with strong communication and leadership skills?, Extensive experience in project management, with experience in a senior or leadership role.
Proven experience in all the areas above, and clear demonstration not just of implementing existing processes, but of driving transformational change in people and innovation processes to deliver step change growth.
Highly experienced in delivering complex projects and managing resource, budget, infrastructural, capacity and capability and decision-making constraints.
Sound commercial awareness - understands P&L's, customer relationships and brands and highly experienced in stakeholder management and influencing
Experience in FMCG/Food - ideally both private label and brand

Ornua operates as a commercial organisation from 10 business units worldwide, including 12 production facilities located in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Africa.
The commercial organisation is responsible for the marketing and sales of Ornua's consumer brands including Ireland's most successful food export: Kerrygold.
It also manages the procurement of Irish and non-Irish dairy products, the sale of dairy ingredients to food manufacturing and foodservice customers globally, and the implementation of de-risking and trading strategies to manage market volatility.
Our co-operative ethos lies at the heart of how we do business as a purpose and values-led organisation, creating value for Irish dairy farming families.
Our Values lie at the core of everything we do. Our five values encourage us to Seek and Embrace New Ideas, Make It Happen, Be Our True Selves, Show You Care, and Achieve Great Things Together.
Dynamic Working policy in place which facilitates flexible hours and hybrid working
We invest in our people and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Career Progression including Global Mobility opportunities.

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