EMEA Senior Project Manager

Fareham, Hampshire, United Kingdom (On-site)

Job title: EMEASenior Project Manager

Department: EMEA Commercial Operations

Location: The Vision Centre, Southampton

GLS: P05

Working hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday

A brighter future awaits you

Cooper Vision is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of soft contact lenses with a presence in over 100 countries. Being part of Cooper Vision means helping improve the way people see each day. It’s more than making contact lenses, it’s about giving lens wearers freedom and confidence to move about their daily lives. We’re all about bright futures – for our people and those who wear our contact lenses.

Job summary – What to expect:

The Senior Project Manager will lead and oversee Commercial projects within the EMEA Commercial Operations department. This role involves planning, executing, and closing projects focused on driving measurable outcomes, ensuring alignment with organizational strategic objectives and goals, and optimizing business processes.

Essential Functions & Accountabilities:

Project Leadership, Planning and Execution:

Lead and manage multiple projects from initiation through to completion, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.

Review new requests from customers and markets, ensuring sound business cases / rationale is provided and the Intake process is followed, identifying improvement opportunities with Global process owners.

Drive all aspects of project delivery: meeting facilitation, define the scope and terms of the project, develop detailed project plans, agree and set deadlines, assign responsibilities and monitor execution.

Coordinate project activities and resources effectively, ensuring adherence to established timelines and deliverables.

Apply best practice methodologies (e.g. Prince2, MSP, Waterfall, Agile, hybrid) and governance in project disciplines across the lifecycle including risk management, resource management, stakeholder management and communication, and financial management to deliver project outcomes.

Ensure appropriate use of Cooper Vision’s project management tools and templates, maintaining and storing all project documentation in accordance with company information retention policies.

Stakeholder Management:

Engage and communicate with stakeholders at all levels, providing regular updates on project status, risks, issues and milestones, ensuring transparency and engagement throughout the project lifecycle.

Facilitate collaboration across teams to ensure alignment and buy-in for projects and process improvement initiatives. Ensure adherence to Global processes and liaise with process owners as appropriate.

Provide a central regional point of coordination to liaise with stakeholders in Country teams and Functional Leaders to ensure regional roll‑outs, such as e-commerce developments, are well planned, appropriately prioritized, resourced and supported.

Collaborate with cross‑functional teams, including Sales, Marketing and Customer Service, to understand improvement opportunities and drive project success.

Business Case Creation & Performance Monitoring:

Facilitate creation of high‑quality business cases, recognizing quantitative and qualitative benefits and ensuring they are aligned with strategic targets and that new project requests are prioritized accordingly.

Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure project success and impact on business processes.

Monitor project progress and performance, with particular focus on critical tasks that deliver the expected benefits, adjusting plans as necessary to achieve objectives.

Track project performance against predefined KPIs and metrics, providing regular updates to management on progress and outcomes.

Conduct post‑project evaluations to assess the effectiveness of improvements and identify lessons learned for future initiatives.

Training and Development:

Mentor and support team members in project management practices and continuous improvement methodologies.

Proactively take ownership of and drive your own personal development.

A full job description is available upon request.

About you:

Experience:

Minimum of 10 years of project management…