Strategic Projects Manager

at  Butternut Box

RUN PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THEIR LIFECYCLE, MANAGE STAKEHOLDERS AND DRIVE REPORTING (60%)

• Manage multiple projects at once from kick-off to launch, identifying interdependencies and risks.
• Ensure the long term ambitions of Butternut are being prioritised in decision making throughout a project.
• Champion and celebrate the wins of your peers in the project teams, keeping everyone engaged and excited about projects (helping dogs live happier and healthy lives is exciting) .
• Manage day-to-day action tracking and reporting.
• Facilitate the necessary project meetings and working sessions to keep everyone aligned.
• Manage and present company-wide communication on major project milestones such as country launches.
• Prepare key company and Board reporting, on topics such as progress towards our company Strategy and goals for the year.

SOLVE PROBLEMS ON COMPLEX TOPICS (20%)

• Partner up with teams across the business to solve discrete, complex problems and deliver refined and well executed solutions.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the business, offering high conviction recommendations supported by analysis.
• Support in scope and building out the longer-term Strategy roadmaps and timelines, actively seeking out the next big thing for Butternut.

A BIT ABOUT US.

At Butternut, we put the food back into dog food. We believe dogs deserve to eat the healthiest, most natural and tastiest food with none of the nasties. That’s why we make freshly prepared dog food. Cooked like you would at home. Delivered in perfect portions. #LI-Hybrid
As a B-Corp certified company; you can be sure you are joining a sustainable company who care about our people, product and our impact on the environment.
Our goal is to help dogs live healthier, happier and longer lives whilst leaving humans smiling after every interaction. We’ve come a long way since our co-founders (Kev & Dave) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, we now feed a lot of dogs across the UK - but we want to feed dogs everywhere. And to do this, we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition to come and work with us.

Do you love collaborating with a diverse set of teams to deliver critical and high-impact projects, to help build one of Europe’s fastest growing DTC brands? If your tail is wagging, keep reading…
As part of the Strategy team, reporting to the Strategy Lead, you’ll play a key role in bringing exciting ideas and ‘big bet’ opportunities to life, such as launching into new international markets, sales channels, product categories and more. Alongside this, you’ll help make sure we bring the highest quality to everything we do at Butternut, to allow us to continue to scale over the years and decades ahead. We’re building a multi-generational business and this role will be pivotal to making that happen.
We’re looking for a self starter with extremely high attention to detail, an organisational powerhouse, who is able to influence and motivate a variety of teams each with varying priorities. You’ll have ownership of your projects from the very beginning and will be responsible for managing them until they’re integrated into the wider business. You’ll play a key role in making judgements and the freedom to continually question and optimise the way that we do things, to help us always strive for better.
If you’re someone who is comfortable with a varied and dynamic workload, thriving on context switching and throwing yourself into new ideas to get them delivered, we want to hear from you.
In this role, you can expect to: