Product & Sustainability Project Manager (12 Month FTC)

What we’re after: Product & Sustainability Project Manager (12 Month FTC)

Reporting Line: Head of Impact & Sustainability

Lily’s Headquarters: - Goodge Street, Fitzrovia (with hybrid working between the office and working from home)

Equality and Inclusiveness at Lily’s Kitchen:

At Lily’s Kitchen, we want to build and maintain a values-driven culture of trust and inclusion, one that empowers people safely and comfortably to express every characteristic of their personal identity and experience. We’re committed to supporting and encouraging a diverse and inclusive workforce. That means that whatever your ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age or status as an individual with a disability, you’ll get all the opportunities, respect and support you’d expect from a passionate business that cares about its people (as well as its pets).

We strongly encourage people of colour, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, individuals with disabilities and/or other people from underrepresented groups to apply. Lily’s Kitchen is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes everyone to our team. If you need reasonable accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use.

Location:

This is a hybrid role, with a mix between working approximately 2 days a week (or more if you prefer) in our beautiful central London office (Goodge Street) and working from home.

Your place at the Lily’s Kitchen Table:

You will be part of a team that are at the forefront of innovation and sustainability, reporting into the Head of Product Development. The NPD Project Manager will be responsible for managing the end-to-end stage-gate for projects and driving delivery of sustainability initiatives. This role ensures projects are governed effectively, meet business requirements, and contribute to the organisation’s ESG commitments.

How will I make a difference? You will:

• Product Development - End to End gate project management
• Manage the full stage-gate lifecycle of projects, from concept through to execution and closure and performance evaluation
• Own, develop and maintain project documentation templates
• Responsible for all critical paths
• Facilitate weekly gate taskforce team catch ups
• Ensure all actions have been done by making each action owner/team accountable
• Identify bottlenecks and proactively drive corrective actions to keep projects on track
• Manage a cross functional team of stakeholders
• Facilitate monthly gate meetings, ensuring clear decision-making, risk management, and alignment with business priorities.
• Update and improve the process along with process stakeholders
• End to End project management of sustainability initiatives, including.
• B Corp Re-certification and Annual Audits
• Implementation of sustainability directives and / or legislative requirements
• Annual impact report
• Annual data collection for Lily’s carbon footprint
• General Project Management responsibilities
• Take responsibly for leading assigned key projects within the product team e.g. shelf-life testing, routine palatability, market expansion
• Project manage the Product team’s NIA audit actions to ensure we deliver the change and evidence required on time
• Own the cross functional supplier meetings for Supply Chain, Quality and Sustainability (check with EW regarding supply chain ownership
• Manage Freelancers, including contracts ensuring all are up to date, signed and filed
• Manage the Product Team monthly meetings, ensuring notes and actions are taken and followed up
• Competitor Reviews / market Evaluation Innovation / New launches o Keep up to date on competitor activity and customer feedback
• Pull together a quarterly report
• Organise relevant comparative trials as required.

How will I contribute to the team? You are:

• A strategic and structured thinker.
• Are results-driven and proactive.
• Are passionate about sustainability and business transformation.
• Comfortable working in a busy, changing environment.
• Flexible in adapting to changing priorities, processes, and team needs
• Able to proactively adjust to new situations and maintain a positive, solution-oriented attitude.
• Supportive, and use your expertise to guide the team through the process
• Act as a key point of contact for project governance
• A problem solver to work through issues to help keep projects on track
• And it goes without saying, you should have a real passion for pets!

At Lily’s Kitchen we believe that everyone should enjoy their time at work. We reward the care our people put into their job, by caring for them in return. Our benefits are designed to make our people smile, save for the future, stay healthy and give back where they can and include:

• Dogs at work; what better way to put a smile on your face!
• Flexible Working: flexitime, working from home, part-time working, flexible support, faith based public holidays
• Save for the Future and Protect Loved ones: a pension plan that goes beyond, the option for salary exchange and an option of an ethical pension fund reflecting our team’s attitudes and needs. Plus, a life assurance scheme to look after those that depend on you.
• Staying healthy and well: Our team’s health and wellbeing is very important to us and we offer private medical, private dental, employee assistance programme, mental first aiders and a cycle to work scheme (and an electric car salary sacrifice scheme).
• Supporting our community: with a volunteering allowance we can give back to causes we are passionate about. Plus supporting and having fun together as a team.
• And more …

At Lily’s Kitchen we are pet food pioneers. We are changing the game with our mission to provide proper food for cats and dogs all over the world.

Lily’s Kitchen was founded in London in 2009, by Henrietta Morrison who set out to feed her beloved dog, Lily, food she could trust. Lily’s Kitchen is now the No1 Brand in premium natural pet food, still focusing on the mission to inspire pet parents to feed their four-legged friends natural, proper food for pets.

Lily’s Kitchen was a founding member of the UK B Corp movement and the first pet food brand in the world to achieve B Corp status. Determined to use business as a force for good, Lily’s Kitchen has recently partnered with Dogs Trust to support dogs in need and are proud to lend a paw to charitable causes. We sell our nutritious natural recipes for cats and dogs in over 1,000 stockists, like Waitrose, Tesco, Ocado, organic food shops, vets, independent pet shops and garden centres all over the UK. We also sell internationally and are now sold in more than 30 countries worldwide.

Our Vision.

We’re all about warming hearts, feeding souls and enriching lives, for both our customers and employees.

Our Values.

We recruit to our values at Lily’s Kitchen: Respectful. Dedicated. Audacious. Passionate. Responsible.

Our People.

We seek out and develop talented people who love to succeed and make a positive difference in everything they do.

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