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.
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:
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A proven track record coupled with significant experience delivering technology-focused projects.
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Demonstrable experience managing medium to large-scale technical projects across infrastructure, cloud, applications, data, or digital transformation domains.
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Strong experience working with third-party delivery partners and managing supplier relationships.
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Proven ability to lead cross-functional project teams and coordinate diverse stakeholder groups.
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Excellent communication and presentation skills, including experience presenting to senior leadership and steering committees.
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Strong commercial awareness and experience managing project budgets and financial reporting.
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Practical experience of hybrid delivery methodologies.
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Strong risk, issue, dependency, and change management capabilities.
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Experience using project management and collaboration tools including Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps and the Microsoft 365 suite.
Desirable
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Project Management Professional (PMP), PRINCE2 Practitioner, APM PMQ, or equivalent qualification.
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Experience within consumer goods, manufacturing, supply chain, or global enterprise environments.
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Knowledge of cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure.
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Experience delivering technology transformation, migration, or digital change programmes.
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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
A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS
William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.
We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.
At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.
OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY
Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.
INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.
We want to make sure that all applicants are treated equally. To support this we will anonymise all applications during the screening stage. Details such as name, dates and educational establishments will only be visible to the recruitment team and hiring leader once an applicant is invited to interview, these details are hidden during the screening stage. To be able to anonymise applications they all need to be in the same format. You can upload a CV but we would also ask you to complete an application form – your CV will not be visible during screening. We hope you agree that this is good use of your time to help ensure a fair recruitment process.
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