IT Project Manager

The Role

Location: Sofia (hybrid)

Are you ready to take on a dynamic role where you can drive impactful projects and lead cross-functional teams to success?

Join Imperial Brands, n inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees, as a Project Manager and be at the forefront of delivering excellence in our IT programmes!

Principle Accountabilities

• Project Planning & Management: Plan, manage, oversee, and report progress on execution projects, orchestrating day-to-day delivery activities and managing resources to produce required deliverables and outcomes.
• Supplier Management: Support operational supplier management for delivery partners and suppliers alongside platform leads.
• Delivery Excellence: Ensure the delivery of assigned project deliverables and outcomes to agreed time, cost, and quality criteria.
• Adherence to Standards: Follow principles, policies, standards, and methodologies applied across all programmes and projects.
• Governance & Oversight: Define and agree on appropriate project governance and oversight with the project sponsor, ensuring consistency with agreed standards.
• Risk Management: Identify, resolve, or escalate any programme and project-related risks and issues to the Lead Project Manager and Business Partners as appropriate.

Skills and Experience Required

• Demonstrated experience in managing the delivery of complex, cross-functional, and cross-geography IT programmes relevant to the Centre of Excellence domain.
• Proven ability to drive business change as part of IT programme delivery, with a demonstrated ability to assess evidence and make decisions that successfully drive project progress.
• Considerable experience in the application of IT delivery methods (planning, scheduling, project control procedures, agile and classic approaches, etc.).
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills with proven ability to build and manage key relationships with internal IS, business stakeholders, and third-party suppliers.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience of working with teams spread across multiple locations.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.