Overview
ERP Project Manager (IT Deliverables Lead) – Peterborough
Job Title: ERP Project Manager (IT Deliverables Lead)
Location: Peterborough (Hybrid)
from £65,000, plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and
reward your impact, including discretionary performance related bonus and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%.
Are you an experienced Project Manager with a strong technical grounding and a passion for delivering complex IT programmes that improve how a business operates? Do you enjoy working end-to-end across system design, integrations, data, testing and go-live, taking ownership of delivery and outcomes?
We’re looking for an ERP Project Manager (IT Deliverables Lead) to join us at a critical point in our ERP journey. In this role, you’ll lead the delivery of ERP IT workstreams across design, build, test and deployment, working closely with internal teams and external partners to ensure high-quality, on-time and on-budget delivery that supports our manufacturing operations.
What you’ll be doing:
- Owning the delivery of ERP IT workstreams end-to-end, from design through to go-live and hypercare
- Developing and maintaining detailed project plans, roadmaps, dependencies and critical paths
- Managing governance activities including status reporting, RAID management and escalation handling
- Coordinating technical design, configuration and build activities with internal teams and implementation partners
- Leading delivery of system integrations between ERP and surrounding systems (e.g. HR, WMS, MES, finance, reporting)
- Overseeing the technical aspects of data migration, including ETL activities, mock conversions and reconciliation
- Planning and managing IT testing activities (SIT, performance, security and cutover rehearsals)
- Leading IT cutover planning, go-live readiness, and coordinating hypercare and stabilisation activities
What you’ll bring:
- Proven experience as a Technical or ERP Project Manager delivering complex, full lifecycle ERP implementations
- Broad IT experience across applications, integrations, infrastructure and environments
- Experience working within a manufacturing environment (ideally FMCG or food & beverage)
- Strong understanding of ERP platforms (Infor M3 experience highly desirable)
- A proactive, hands-on and action-oriented delivery style, able to operate independently with minimal oversight
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate technical detail for non-technical audiences
- Experience working with external vendors and implementation partners, managing scope, quality and timelines
- A formal project management qualification (or equivalent practical experience delivering large programmes)
Where growth meets purpose
What sets us apart is how we delight our customers – and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together, we’re shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we’re collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.
We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter – or anything else) just let us know.
About the Company
Rewarding your passion
When you join us, you’ll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you – from day one.
About us
We’re AB Agri, part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
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