Business Project Manager

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, 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 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately 4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers 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:

As a Business Project Manager at Greencore, you’ll play a key role in helping the business achieve its strategic goals. You will lead the successful delivery of the Revenue Growth Management (RGM) transformation initiative, a key component of the Commercial Excellence and Making Business Easier (MBE) programmes.

The role will coordinate cross-functional teams across Commercial, Finance, IT, Category, Data and Supply Chain to establish new RGM capabilities, processes, tools and ways of working that drive sustainable profitable growth through pricing, promotions, portfolio optimisation, product mix and trade investment management

The Business Project Manager will be responsible for translating strategy into delivery plans, ensuring governance is maintained, risks are managed and business outcomes are achieved.

Planning, monitoring, managing, and reporting on deliverables, tasks, milestones, budgets, and resources. Your work will be aligned with agreed timelines and financial targets, ensuring successful outcomes across the board.

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 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 initiative.

Ensure project outputs are aligned with broader…