Project Manager

Sewell Wallis is working with an innovative and rapidly growing business based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, who are currently looking for an experienced Project Manager to join the business and make a significant impact with supporting the company's scientific team and projects.

This is a newly-created Project Manager role where you will be required to manage a team of 4 scientists and support them with long-term projects within product innovation and creation.

What will you be doing?

• Developing Scopes of Work, project costings, project reporting and producing KPIs.
• Monitoring information on workload allocation and project prioritisation and resourcing.
• Providing technical support and scientific contributions to commercial R&D projects.
• Working with external partners in a commercial setting and leading client projects and client-facing activities.
• Developing / nurturing a collective of partners (supply chain/raw material/ecosystem) to enable R&D projects to be delivered.

What skills are we looking for?

• A background within project or commercial management.
• A Masters degree in Science or Engineering or a keen interest or passion in this area.
• Experience managing small/medium teams.
• Ability to be innovative and able to develop new ideas and grow with the business.
• Strong communication skills and ability to speak with people at all levels.

What's on offer?

• Working in a state-of-the-art, modern office located near good transport links.
• Competitive salary.
• Excellent long-term progression.
• Opportunity to work in a newly created role and grow with the team and business.

Send us your CV below or contact Becky Gibson for more information.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.