Reporting to: Head of Strategy & Projects with close partnership to Retail Leadership
Salary: Competitive salary package (£45K - £55K d.o.e.)
About the Opportunity
Our client, a well known and established brand in Animal Nutrition, is looking for a commercially minded and resilient Retail Project Manager to help drive operational improvement projects across its retail network in Scotland.
This is an opportunity to join a well-established, relationship-led business at an exciting point of evolution, where there is genuine appetite for improvement, modernisation, and fresh thinking. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering projects that improve systems, processes, reporting, and ways of working across the retail operation.
The role offers a high level of autonomy and visibility, working closely with senior stakeholders across the business while being supported by an experienced and collaborative wider projects team.
This position would suit someone who enjoys influencing change in established environments, can confidently challenge constructively, and thrives when given ownership and trust.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and deliver retail and operational improvement projects across the business
- Identify opportunities to improve systems, reporting, processes, and efficiencies
- Work closely with stakeholders across retail operations to drive project engagement and delivery
- Manage project plans, priorities, risks, budgets, and reporting
- Support the ongoing development and embedding of project governance and reporting structures
- Drive accountability and momentum across projects, ensuring progress is maintained despite competing priorities
- Mentor and support a junior project coordinator within the team
- Build strong working relationships across a long-established and collaborative business culture
- Contribute to the wider strategic and continuous improvement agenda across retail operations
We are open on sector background and welcome applications from candidates across retail, commercial, operational, or process-led environments.
The successful candidate is likely to be:
- A proactive and self-motivated project professional who enjoys ownership and accountability
- Comfortable working autonomously while knowing when to seek support or collaboration
- Resilient and confident in managing stakeholder challenge and resistance to change
- Commercially aware with strong organisational and communication skills
- Able to influence and challenge constructively in a positive and relationship-focused way
- Structured and systematic in approach, while remaining adaptable in evolving environments
- Passionate about continuous improvement and driving meaningful operational change
Essential
- Previous project management experience within retail, commercial, operational, or process-driven environments
- Experience managing multiple stakeholders and delivering business improvement initiatives
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Experience with ERP or business systems (e.g. D365, SAP, or similar)
- Comfortable working with reporting, KPIs, and operational data
- Willingness to travel across Scotland as required
- Formal project management qualification (PRINCE2, Agile, PMI, APM etc.)
- Experience improving operational systems or business processes
- Experience mentoring or developing junior team members
- Retail operations experience
- Experience within agricultural, animal health, FMCG, or similarly relationship-led sectors
- Opportunity to influence meaningful operational change within a well-established business
- High level of autonomy and trust
- Supportive, direct, and collaborative leadership team
- Flexible and home-based working approach
- Strong team culture with genuine work-life balance
- Opportunity to shape and evolve the role as the wider function develops
If you want to learn more and discuss your eligibility for the role then please do apply to register your interest.
