Senior Technical Project Manager
- Lead the delivery of complex initiatives while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, ensuring project quality and strategic alignment.
- Ideal candidates will have significant project management experience, strong decision-making skills, and the ability to challenge the status quo constructively.
- This role is based in Glasgow, offering hybrid work options, a competitive salary, and extensive benefits, including generous leave and employee support programmes.
Our Craft
Edrington’s vision is to give more by crafting exceptional ultra-premium spirit brands. The Macallan is our central focus, supported by Highland Park and The Glenrothes in the single malt category. Our portfolio is completed with Brugal rum from the Dominican Republic, Wyoming Whiskey in the American Whiskey category and Valdespino sherry from Jerez in Spain. Edrington also has a strategic partnership with No.3 London Dry Gin.Our principal shareholder is a charitable trust, so we were built to make a world of difference. Discover a place where values define our culture. The home of exceptional brands, where people and teams thrive.
Our Blend of Benefits
- Salary £60,400 - £75,500
- 37 days holiday, plus 4 Giving More volunteer days
- Save for retirement and invest in your future - pension contributions (employee up to 8.75%, employer up to 14%)
- Share in our success with up to 10% Share Reward scheme (subject to eligibility)
- Private medical insurance that covers the cost of private healthcare and includes round the clock access to GP services and menopause health line
- 24/7 support for you and your loved ones to counselling, life coaching and information on financial, mental, and physical wellbeing
- Experience our exceptional brands with a generous annual product allowance, plus at least 20% discount in our staff shop
- Embrace work-life harmony with hybrid working, 26 weeks’ paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave, and up to five paid carers leave days a year
Embrace Excellence
As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead the delivery of highly complex initiatives, working closely with cross-functional stakeholders and applying best-practice project and change management approaches. You bring the experience to assure delivery quality across the wider portfolio, recover challenged projects, and make sound decisions aligned to organisational strategy — including constructively challenging senior stakeholders when critical success factors are at risk.
Your primary focus will be the eInvoicing Programme, delivering inbound and outbound eInvoicing capabilities in line with local legislation. Current rollouts include Denmark and Belgium, with France, Norway and the UAE planned in the coming months.Beyond eInvoicing, a strong pipeline of ERP initiatives is planned for FY26–27. Subject to capacity and programme progress, you will have opportunities to contribute to or lead projects such as SPS upgrades, Integration Platform upgrades, Data Archiving and Database Migration.Additional projects are expected to emerge through ongoing business reviews and will be prioritised for delivery alongside these commitments.
Make an Impact
Reporting to the Head of ERP, Project and Programme Management, this role leads end-to-end delivery of complex initiatives, embedding change and driving continuous improvement.
- Own full project lifecycle delivery, defining scope, plans, milestones, dependencies and critical paths with stakeholders.
- Build and lead project teams, governance and senior engagement, managing resources, budgets, suppliers, risks and issues with clear escalation and options.
- Apply and tailor best-practice project management methods, tools and reporting to maintain control and momentum.
- Facilitate workshops, reviews and decision forums to resolve blockers and support effective decision-making.
- Communicate clearly and credibly, building trust, managing expectations and leading confidently through ambiguity and conflict.
- Embed change management into delivery, assessing impact and readiness, shaping adoption strategies, communications and training.
- Maintain a “big picture” view of organisational and operational impacts to support sustainable outcomes.
- Lead retrospectives, capture lessons learned and use feedback to continuously improve delivery capability.
Your Talent and Skills
- Advanced project and change management expertise, with experience leading complex, global programmes.
- Proven success managing external delivery partners across distributed locations.
- Credible, engaging leader able to unite teams and build trust at all organisational levels.
- Strong Agile/Scrum delivery experience.
- Excellent communication, influencing, facilitation and presentation skills, with the ability to simplify complex topics for non-technical audiences.
- Sound judgement with a holistic, analytical mindset; confident challenging the status quo.
- Broad cross-functional business experience and strong operational awareness.
- Calm and resilient under pressure, with strong problem-solving and continuous-improvement mindset.
- Highly organised, able to balance competing priorities and consistently meet deadlines.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and project management tools.
- Degree-level education desirable; professional project management certification advantageous.
- Spirits industry experience advantageous.
- Must have: SAP project delivery experience, including work with global Tier 1 partners supporting both project delivery and live services
We’ve put together some criteria that we think is important for this role, but don’t worry if your experience and expertise isn’t an exact match. If you feel that you can add value to our role and to Edrington more broadly, we would welcome your application and be eager to learn more about you.
A Place For Everyone
We’re proud of our inclusive culture – where unique experiences, ideas and perspectives are celebrated. We want everyone to feel respected and empowered to contribute to our success.Get involved. From colleague networks like Balance, Pride and Kick-Start to inclusion allies and DE&I champions, we encourage our people to be curious, get involved and help us make change happen.