Job Description

Project Manager - 3 Months

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Park Royal, London 5 days onsite

About the role

We are seeking a highly organised, commercially astute PMO Manager to lead, coordinate, and continuously improve our 3‑year business planning process Working within a fast‑pace environment, this role plays a critical part in aligning strategic priorities, supporting senior stakeholders, and ensuring that the business delivers against its commercial objectives.

You will drive cross‑functional collaboration, ensure planning frameworks are robust and well-governed, and provide clarity, insight, and structure to strategic initiatives. This role is ideal for someone with strong analytical capability, exceptional organisation skills, and a passion for turning strategic ambition into actionable, measurable plans.

About Bestway

Bestway Group is a diversified multinational family owned business with annualised turnover in excess of £4.5 billion. Starting off as a chain of retail convenience stores, the Group has grown to become a diversified multinational business with interests across the wholesale, pharmacy, real estate, cement and banking sectors. The Group is also the largest overseas investor in Pakistan.

Owned by the Pervez, Choudrey and Sheikh families, Bestway Group was founded in 1976 by Sir Anwar Pervez OBE H Pk, who remains Chairman. Serving over 12 million customers and employing over 28,000 individuals, the Group supports and serves communities through its operations across the UK, Pakistan and the Middle East

Responsibilities:

Business Planning Leadership

• Lead the end‑to‑end delivery of the company’s 3‑year business plan, coordinating inputs from Commercial, Operations, Trading, Supply Chain, Finance, Marketing, and HR.
• Develop and maintain planning frameworks, timelines, templates, dashboards, and communication materials.
• Ensure clarity and alignment between strategic objectives, financial targets, and operational plans.
• Facilitate executive workshops and planning sessions to prioritise strategic initiatives and agree KPIs.

PMO Governance & Structure

• Design and maintain governance processes to monitor progress against the business plan.
• Establish clear controls for initiative tracking, risk management, issue escalation, and benefit realisation.
• Maintain the strategic roadmap, ensuring dependencies, milestones, and resources are understood and managed.
• Provide regular plan updates to Executive and Board level.

Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership Support

• Act as the central point of coordination across the business for the planning cycle.
• Partner with Directors, Heads of Departments and Senior Managers to ensure initiatives are accurately scoped, costed, and aligned to strategic priorities.
• Communicate complex information in clear, concise formats suitable for senior audiences.

Reporting & Insights

• Produce planning dashboards, project reports, and performance tracking materials.
• Conduct analysis to highlight trends, risks, opportunities, and gaps against business targets.
• Translate high‑level strategy into measurable, actionable workstreams.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to streamline the planning process, improve documentation, and enhance cross‑functional collaboration.
• Introduce tools, templates, and best practices that strengthen strategic planning capability across the business.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Proven experience in a PMO, business planning, strategy, or transformation role.
• Background in retail, supermarket, FMCG, wholesale or cash‑and‑carry environments.
• Strong understanding of commercial drivers such as volume, margin, promotional mechanics, supply chain costs, operations, and retail KPIs.
• Exceptional organisational and governance skills.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Proficiency in project management methodologies and planning tools (e.g. RAID logs, Gantt charts, strategic roadmaps).
• High level of numerical and analytical capability.

Desirable

• Experience working directly on long‑term business planning cycles.
• Knowledge of financial modelling or business case development.
• Professional project management qualification (e.g., Prince2, APM, PMP).
• Experience in change delivery or transformation programmes.

Attributes & Behaviours

• Highly structured, detail‑oriented, and methodical.
• Confident facilitator who can challenge constructively.
• A proactive problem‑solver with a continuous‑improvement mindset.
• Able to operate in a fast‑paced, evolving retail environment.
• Strong team player who builds trust and credibility quickly.

Benefits

• 22 days holiday.
• Private medical cover
• Pension contribution
• Free Parking

We understand that no applicant ever ticks every box so please do consider applying should some or most of the above apply. Bestway Group is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We want strong, and diverse teams built from talented individuals with different backgrounds identities and experiences.

If this is of interest to you and you would like to learn more, please do get in touch, we are looking forward to hearing from you.