As BPX Group continues to grow, we are looking for an experienced Project Manager to help deliver our ambitious plans across our UK and Ireland businesses. This is a fixed-term contract, working from 8:30am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. This is a critical role at the heart of BPX’s strategic agenda, providing robust project management, effective stakeholder coordination and disciplined execution to turn priorities into measurable results while keeping delivery aligned with our wider market ambitions.

About Us

Across the industrial design, manufacturing and maintenance worlds, we’re the digital destination for product and service solutions to help our customers with the maintenance, repair and operation of their businesses.

We provide global access to an unrivalled range of over 750,000 stocked industrial products. Each day our team of experts deliver solutions to resolve our customer’s challenges across design, procurement, inventory and maintenance. We consistently strive to deliver the best possible service to all of our customers and challenge ourselves to provide a seamless procurement experience.

We are one team. We deliver brilliantly. We do the right thing. We make every day better. These are our values. They unite our c.9,000 global colleagues and differentiate us from our competition. They are a mix of how we work today and how we must step up for the future. Most importantly, it is one set of values shaped by our people, for our people.

Together, we can make great things happen. Aim for amazing and beyond. RS Group is organised into three regions: EMEA, APAC and the Americas.

The UK & Ireland is the largest market within the EMEA region, and we have created business plans to grow from £700m of revenues to £1.5bn over the next 5 years through both organic and inorganic means.

BPX is a leading automation and control specialists in the UK & Ireland, operating through a network of locations across the UK and Ireland. The Group brings together complementary businesses including BPX, Control Components Anglia (CCA), Control and Drives Limited (CDL) and Leicester Switch & Controls (LSC). Across these businesses BPX Group offers field services and specialist support to help customers improve productivity, efficiency and resilience across a wide range of industrial sectors.

As part of RS Group, BPX offers the agility, entrepreneurial culture and customer focus of a specialist business alongside the scale, investment and career opportunities of a global organisation. This is an exciting opportunity to influence culture, develop talent and support a growing multi-site business through its next phase of growth and transformation while preserving the strong identity and values that have made BPX successful.

The Opportunity

The Project Manager is responsible for driving the successful delivery of strategic and operational priorities within BPX, ensuring alignment with the wider market Value Driver Framework and strategic objectives.

Working in close partnership with the Head of PMO, this role provides the structure, coordination, and execution discipline needed to turn plans into measurable results. The Project Manager will lead and coordinate cross-functional initiatives, monitor progress against key objectives, manage risks and dependencies, and ensure agreed outcomes are delivered on time and to the required standard.

This role requires a highly organised and self-motivated individual with strong stakeholder management skills, a proactive approach to problem-solving, and the determination to drive actions through to completion. The successful candidate will be comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment, balancing strategic priorities with day-to-day delivery demands.

Main Duties

Strategic Delivery & Execution:

• Support the implementation of strategic priorities and value-driving initiatives within BPX
• Translate business objectives into detailed project plans, milestones, actions, and deliverables.
• Drive the execution of agreed initiatives, ensuring delivery remains on track against plans and expectations.
• Monitor project progress and ensure actions are completed by agreed deadlines.
• Work closely with business leaders to maintain focus on priorities and expected outcomes.
• Develop and execute proportionate change, communication and stakeholder engagement plans
• Assess organisational readiness, coordinate training and handover activities and monitor adoption to ensure new processes, systems and ways of working become embedded in business as usual operations

Project & Programme Management:

• Establish and maintain project plans, governance processes, and delivery schedules.
• Coordinate activity across multiple stakeholders and workstreams.
• Coordinate delivery across BPX Group businesses and locations, establishing clear local ownership and ensuring solutions are practical for frontline and customer-facing teams.
• Manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
• Ensure projects are delivered within agreed scope, timescales, and resource parameters.
• Support the successful delivery of integration, transformation, and business improvement initiatives.

Governance & Performance Reporting:

• Prepare regular progress updates, reports, and project dashboards.
• Track performance against agreed milestones, objectives, and success measures.
• Track financial and operational outcomes through delivery and post-implementation, intervening where initiatives are not achieving the agreed value.
• Escalate delivery risks and challenges promptly, providing recommendations for resolution.
• Ensure strong governance and adherence to agreed project management standards.
• Maintain clear visibility of project status, decisions, and actions.

Stakeholder Management & Collaboration:

• Build strong partnerships across the acquisition business and wider market teams.
• Work collaboratively with the Head of PMO to ensure local priorities remain aligned with strategic objectives.
• Facilitate project meetings, workshops, and review sessions.
• Influence stakeholders to maintain momentum and accountability.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration and effective communication throughout project delivery.
• Partner with business and finance leaders to define project business cases, measurable benefits and baseline performance.
• Balance group-wide consistency with legitimate business and site specific requirements.

Continuous Improvement:

• Identify opportunities to improve project delivery effectiveness and business performance.
• Capture lessons learned and share best practice across initiatives.
• Support the development of project management capability and delivery disciplines within the business.
• Contribute to a culture of accountability, collaboration, and execution excellence.

Essential Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

• Proven project management experience delivering complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Demonstrable experience of supporting the people and adoption elements of business change, including stakeholder impact assessment, communications, training and transition into business as usual
• Strong planning, organisation, and prioritisation skills.
• Experience creating and managing project plans, timelines, and governance processes.
• Ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Strong problem-solving and risk management capability.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and drive accountability without direct authority.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and monitor performance.
• Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail.
• Self-starter with the resilience and tenacity to drive actions through to completion.
• Results-focused mindset with a strong commitment to delivery.
• Experience working in fast-paced and changing environments.
• Strong relationship-building and collaboration skills.
• Comfortable working across a decentralised, multi-site organisation and able to build credibility with operational, commercial and functional teams at every level.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Experience supporting acquisition integration, transformation, or change programmes.
• Knowledge of project governance and portfolio management practices.
• Experience within a matrix organisation.
• Familiarity with benefits realisation and performance tracking methodologies.
• Experience developing executive-level reporting and dashboards.
• Financial tracking, budgeting, or business case support experience.
• Professional project management qualifications (PRINCE2, MSP, PMP, Agile or equivalent).
• Experience working within industrial, distribution, manufacturing, or commercial environments.

BPX offers great benefits such as:

• Minimum of 31 days annual leave including bank holidays (increasing with length of service)
• Access to our training and development platform
• Friendly and supportive work environment
• Dress down Fridays
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme
• Recruitment referral bonus
• Opportunities for career progression
• Cycle 2 Work scheme
• Ability to carry forward unused holiday
• Option to purchase additional annual leave
• Free onsite parking
• Emergency loans

BPX remains a financially secure business, offering the chance to work within a happy, friendly company with some wonderful and talented people.

If you like a challenge and believe you are the right person to join our team, please click apply and upload your CV, we look forward to hearing from you!

We reserve the right to close the advert early when a suitable candidate is found.

No Agencies, please.