Senior Project Manager - Test Management
Senior Project Manager - Test Management
Function: Digital & Technology
Location: Edinburgh-based (6 St Andrew Square) – a mix of office & home working
Salary: £62,500 - £72,500 base depending on experience, plus full benefits listed below.
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 27th July 2026 Please note we may close vacancies early when we receive significant numbers of applications.Please note we are planning for the interviews to be held week commencing 10th August
As the nation’s leading pub, cider and beer company and the name behind a host of brilliant brands, we’re looking for equally brilliant people to help us on our journey to building a better future.
About the role
We're looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager with strong Test Management expertise to lead the delivery of some of HEINEKEN UK's most strategically important Digital & Technology programmes.If you enjoy delivering complex business change, influencing senior stakeholders and improving how projects are delivered across an organisation, we'd love to hear from you.
This role offers the opportunity to combine programme delivery leadership with shaping our testing capability. You'll work closely with project teams, third-party partners and our Global Test Practice team to define testing strategies, establish governance and ensure the right testing capability is in place from project initiation through to successful delivery.
You'll also help improve our testing maturity, quality standards and delivery outcomes across our wider Digital & Technology portfolio.
As a Senior Project Manager, you'll lead complex, high-impact programmes and projects that support HEINEKEN UK's strategic priorities. These initiatives typically range from £0.5m to £2m+, span multiple business functions and require close collaboration with our Global teams.
You'll be accountable for delivering successful business outcomes, balancing scope, budget, timelines, quality and business benefits while adapting your approach to suit each programme. Working with significant autonomy, you'll bring structure to complex environments, make informed decisions and help teams stay focused on delivering value.
This is a highly visible role where you'll build trusted relationships across Digital & Technology, Commercial, Supply Chain and the wider business. You'll engage, influence and constructively challenge senior leaders, helping create alignment across local and Global teams to keep important programmes moving forward.
Alongside programme delivery, you'll play an important role in developing project management capability across the function. You'll coach Project Managers, champion HEINEKEN's delivery frameworks and continuously improve how we deliver change.
What you'll be doing
- Leading the delivery of multiple complex Digital & Technology programmes and projects, ensuring they're delivered on time, within budget and aligned to strategic business objectives.
- Defining delivery approaches across complex environments, proactively managing programme performance, governance, risks and dependencies.
- Building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, Global teams and strategic suppliers, providing commercial oversight and driving delivery of business benefits.
- Coaching and supporting Project Managers and delivery teams, while championing effective project management frameworks and ways of working.
- Leading testing capability across your portfolio, shaping test strategy, demand, governance and quality standards to support successful delivery.
- Working with project teams, third-party partners and the Global Test Practice team to establish consistent testing frameworks, standards and approaches.
- Providing oversight of testing activity throughout delivery, ensuring risks, defects, readiness and quality metrics are actively managed.
- Taking hands-on Test Management responsibility where required, including defining test strategy, planning activity and coordinating delivery.
- Supporting continuous improvement in testing maturity and quality outcomes across Digital & Technology.
You'll be a confident communicator who can influence at all levels, challenge constructively and bring people together around shared goals. You'll be comfortable working in fast-moving environments, managing competing priorities and leading through ambiguity.
Ideally, you'll have:
- Proven experience delivering complex, strategically important Digital & Technology programmes or projects within a large, matrix organisation.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and building strong relationships with senior stakeholders, Global colleagues and third-party partners.
- Strong commercial and financial management skills, including experience managing budgets, suppliers and business benefits.
- A solid understanding of project governance and recognised delivery methodologies, with experience across Agile and Waterfall environments.
- Experience shaping testing strategies, governance and quality assurance approaches across complex change programmes.
- Strong Test Management expertise, with the ability to assess testing demand, mobilise capability and embed consistent testing standards across multiple projects.
- Excellent communication, analytical and problem-solving skills, with the confidence to make decisions and lead through complexity.
- Prince2 Practitioner (or equivalent) is desirable. MSP certification would be an advantage.
Our Ways of Working
Our office sites operate a hybrid model. You’ll spend Tuesdays, Thursdays and one other day in the office and two days from home, although but you’re more than welcome to come and work from the office on those days too.The Good Stuff!
In addition to your base salary, you’ll also receive:
- Discretionary Annual bonus
- Benefits Allowance (15% of base salary paid as cash)
- Company funded Private Medical Healthcare
- Double matched pension contributions (up to 10%)
- 35 days holiday (with the opportunity to buy/sell)
- A quarterly allowance towards purchasing our delicious ciders and beers!
- Exciting opportunities to develop your career
The application
If you like what you’ve read and are ready to brew a better career with us, let’s get going! We may close vacancies early where we receive lots of applications, so don’t delay!If you need any adjustments made to support your application, for example if you require information in different formats, or if you have any accessibility issues, then we’re more than happy to review our processes – please feel free to get in touch with us at [email protected].
You might feel that you don’t meet every single requirement for this role, and that’s okay – we all need the opportunity to develop and untap our full potential. If this advert’s piqued your interest, we’d encourage you to submit an application rather than ruling yourself out. You never know – you may be exactly what we’re looking for!
Who we are
We’re the world’s most international brewer and the name behind a host of brilliant beers and ciders, from Birra Moretti, to Strongbow, to Cruzcampo and many more.It’s a fantastic time to join us. We’re leading the way in low and no alcohol innovation, pioneering new technologies to meet our ambitious environmental goals and investing in our pubs to keep them at the centre of their communities.
When you join us, we’ll back you to reach your full potential. You’ll enjoy unique development opportunities, unforgettable experiences and a reward package that goes far beyond the salary you receive.
If you want to hear more about life at HEINEKEN from our colleagues, head over to LinkedIn and check out the hashtag #LifeatHEINEKENUK.
There’s no better place to untap your future. Join us and brew a better career.
