We are seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to lead the delivery of complex technology and business change initiatives across William Grant & Sons. This role will be responsible for managing multiple projects from initiation through to successful implementation, ensuring delivery against agreed scope, budget, timeline, and business outcomes.
Working within the Group Technology Services (GTS) team, you will partner with business stakeholders, technical teams, and external suppliers to drive delivery excellence while maintaining strong governance and risk management practices. This is a highly visible role requiring strong stakeholder engagement, and the ability to navigate complex technical and organisational environments.
Please note that this role requires a minimum of 4 days on site at our Cumbernauld office.
Key responsibilities
You will be responsible for delivering a portfolio of technology projects aligned to business and strategic objectives.
Key responsibilities include:
- Managing projects through the full lifecycle, from discovery and business case development through delivery, transition, and benefits realisation.
- Developing and maintaining detailed project plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and governance artefacts.
- Leading cross-functional project teams comprising business stakeholders, technical specialists, and third-party suppliers.
- Establishing and maintaining effective project governance, including steering groups, project boards, and status reporting.
- Identifying, managing, and mitigating risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies throughout the project lifecycle.
- Building trusted relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation and ensuring effective communication throughout delivery.
- Managing supplier and partner performance to ensure contractual and delivery commitments are achieved.
- Driving delivery against agreed outcomes whilst balancing scope, cost, risk, and timeline considerations.
- Supporting continuous improvement of project delivery practices, governance standards, and ways of working across GTS.
- Ensuring solutions are delivered in alignment with enterprise architecture, security, service management, and operational support requirements.
About you
You are an experienced project delivery professional with a strong track record of successfully managing complex technology projects. You combine excellent organisational skills with the ability to influence stakeholders, manage competing priorities, and navigate ambiguity with confidence.
You will have:
- A proven track record coupled with significant experience delivering technology-focused projects.
- Demonstrable experience managing medium to large-scale technical projects across infrastructure, cloud, applications, data, or digital transformation domains.
- Strong experience working with third-party delivery partners and managing supplier relationships.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional project teams and coordinate diverse stakeholder groups.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, including experience presenting to senior leadership and steering committees.
- Strong commercial awareness and experience managing project budgets and financial reporting.
- Practical experience of hybrid delivery methodologies.
- Strong risk, issue, dependency, and change management capabilities.
- Experience using project management and collaboration tools including Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps and the Microsoft 365 suite.
Desirable
- Project Management Professional (PMP), PRINCE2 Practitioner, APM PMQ, or equivalent qualification.
- Experience within consumer goods, manufacturing, supply chain, or global enterprise environments.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure.
- Experience delivering technology transformation, migration, or digital change programmes.
- Exposure to programme or portfolio management practices.
Why This Role?
This role offers the opportunity to lead strategically important initiatives across a global business while working with senior stakeholders, modern technologies, and major delivery partners
Reward and benefits
- We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
- Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
- Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
- Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
- Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
- Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
- Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
- Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
- Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
- Learning resources to help you be your best self.
