Role: Senior Project Lead – Manufacturing– (Rheology, formulation, Recipe Development)

Location: Nottingham, Derby, Leicester  

Salary: £40,000 - £45,000

Contact Number: 07498916341

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Senior Project Lead Profile

We have the opportunity for an experience R&D project leader in the powders/pastes team to further build and foster collaboration across global R&D centres, working closely with portfolio manager, business development managers and marketing teams, fully aligned to deliver the strategic business objectives.

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The candidate should:

Be capable of leading complex, major innovation, or strategic projects in the development of new innovative products, processes and solutions to meet the needs of customers through collaborative working and continuous improvement.

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Maintains at all times the high level of quality of what we do and how we do it, as required by our customer through the business, being demanding of project teams to achieve difficult objectives, to deliver complex projects, to take on real challenges and to explore unknown domains.

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Lead delivery of projects or activities, identifies and secures the required capabilities and resources and demonstrates a strong emphasis on customer centricity, on-time delivery, results focus, strong communication and stakeholder management.

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KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

•Master’s degree in science or engineering related subject with proven relevant industrial experience (chemist, material science)

•Preferably - Higher degree (PhD) in science or engineering related subject

•Fluent in English, verbal and written.

•Demonstrated ability to lead and deliver development projects, according to stage and gate principals, in a multi-functional and multi-cultural environment

•Demonstrated confidence in communicating the critical path of project activity to stakeholders

•Strong demonstrated competencies/knowledge in project management methodology, ideally 2-5 years’ experience, with a proven track record of on time project delivery and resilience to obstacles to deliver our customer solutions.

•Demonstrated confidence in communicating and influencing project teams, functional heads, and directors.

•Is passionate about creating and sharing of knowledge with the wider business to ensure effective learning is transferred

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ATTITUDES, COMPETENCIES, BEHAVIOURS

•Customer and Results Focused

O Anticipates customer demands by anticipating future needs and ways to meet them

O Keeping the customer at the heart of all activities through defining customer requirements, the root causes of their problems, providing tried and tested solution to resolve the issues.

O Deliver by, driving to reach and/or exceed objectives or expected results. Has the capacity to demonstrate accountability for actions while maintaining a high level of quality in all things done. 

O Utilises the technical processes and deliverables to answer key questions within projects, showing determination to continuously strive to improve and to set ambitious targets.

O Knows how to rally various skills and resources required ensuring the most ambitious results are achieved

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•Listening & Communication

oIs able to communicate both technical and project information to all levels of the business, ensuring that communication methods/styles/content are adapted to the level of the audience.

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•Vision and Strategy

O Systematically considers the global strategy when making decisions and choices, transforms vision into clear objectives and action plans.

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•Innovation, Initiative and Risk taking

O Has the capacity to search and develop creative, new solutions in order to improve performance and / or create competitive advantage, demonstrates great open-mindedness, is prepared to try out new approaches, adjusting his / her way of doing things to be more effective.

O Responds rapidly to problems as soon as they occur, demonstrates perseverance and tenacity, and transforms decisions into actions.

O Anticipates predictable difficulties and acts to avoid them, lowers the risk of these occurring and limited the impact.

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•Leadership & people development

O Leads and coordinates complex, major innovation, or strategic projects, across multiple functions and/or R&D centres to deliver business priorities at pace

O Can discriminate what is important by the project, brings together creativity, identifies, reviews and deploys the most appropriate new innovative solution.

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•Networking

O Establishes him/herself easily in an established organisational scheme – fulfils completely the role and is quickly efficient.

O Knows how to find direct or indirect support outside of his/her immediate zone of responsibility.

O Shows real situational intelligence in all his/her contacts with others, identifies what is and is not possible to do at a given moment.

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