Lead - LightSpray Project Manager (12-Months Maternity Cover)

Leads strategic projects key to establishing best practices, driving innovation, and realising a vision of advanced manufacturing solutions. It acts as a connector between teams, ensuring strategic programmes are effectively implemented, roadblocks are removed, and LightSpray scales at speed. The Project Manager aligns diverse teams around shared goals, executes projects with precision, and ensures successful delivery to set the tone for growth.

• Orchestrate execution across key programmes, ensuring innovation, operations, and commercialisation efforts are fully aligned.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to foster alignment, facilitate smooth communication, and support effective decision-making.
• Ensure smooth implementation of critical contracts that affect production and commercialisation timelines.
• Integrate environmental impact considerations into the scaling roadmap through LCA analysis and sustainability strategy.
• Support financial modelling and unit cost estimations to ensure cost-efficient scaling.
• Partner with finance to create multi-year financial plans aligned with strategic objectives.
• Ensure manufacturing scale-up is aligned with business objectives and production capabilities.
• Establish and monitor execution metrics and KPIs to ensure efficient operations.
• Provide structured updates and insights to senior leadership to support decision-making.

• 6+ years of project management experience from roles such as product strategy, business strategy, operational excellence functions focused on product, or consulting.
• Footwear and/or apparel industry experience and/or a strong consulting background.
• Strong track record of delivering complex projects successfully.
• Proven track record of leading complex, global projects or programmes.
• Excellence in planning, budgeting, and resource management, with a strong understanding of how to align project goals with strategic business priorities.
• Skilled at influencing and motivating project teams and stakeholders across different levels and functions.
• Adaptable, solutions-focused, and proactive in overcoming challenges in dynamic, evolving environments.
• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, or a related field.

• PMP or similar certification is a plus.

We're a team of passionate innovators and entrepreneurial thinkers from diverse fields united by a mission: to make high-performance footwear at scale, anywhere, anytime, while minimising environmental impact. We're pioneering technology-driven solutions set to revolutionise the running shoe landscape.