Project Manager - Third Party Sales Transfer and Entity Split (12m Fixed term contact)

This is a 12 month fixed term contract position (No day rate candidates) The Project Manager – 3rd Party Sales Transfer (3PST) and Entity Split leads a mission-critical transformation stream within Rotork’s Global MS D365 deployment. The role will project manage two deployment-critical deliverables: The transfer of third-party customers from Rotork factories to the appropriate global selling entities; The successful split of selling entities from factories in multiple countries. This position therefore orchestrates a complex, multi-country change initiative, aligning Country Leaders, Plant Managers, Commercial, Legal, Tax, HR, and Data teams behind a single, structured transfer and entity split approach. The Project Manager ensures robust planning, disciplined governance, and proactive change and risk management, enabling each initiative to be executed with precision and minimal disruption. As such the role directly enables the successful and sustainable deployment of Rotork’s global D365 solution and strengthens the future commercial operating model. Main Responsibilities: Ownership and management of the 3PST process for all Rotork Global Entities, and the split of multiple entities. Put in place the necessary business change activities to ensure our people understand what is changing, why we’re making the change, and they understand the role they have to play. This includes ensuring training materials reflect best practices and lessons learned, and are aligned with D365 processes, commercial requirements, and regional operating models. Lead the end‑to‑end readiness process, consolidating functional checklists and presenting status to Steering Committee. Drive structured gate reviews and ensure all sections meet Green/Amber/Red criteria before approval. Manage interdependencies with the DRIVE Programme and external projects, and escalate risks, issues, and exceptions with clear mitigation plans. Monitor, track, and control project delivery and work with key stakeholders to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables. Provide leadership by building and motivating local and global team members and provide guidance on solution and process to unblock critical tasks. Identify and develop trusted adviser relationships with key global, regional and local stakeholders. Ensure that best practices and lessons learned from previous deployments are understood and adopted. Work closely with the 3PST Training Coordinator to define, design, and deliver product and process training required for Selling Entities to take over customers from the transferring factories. Coordinate factory‑specific product training, ensuring Product Managers, Engineering, and Commercial Teams contribute accurate and relevant content that equips SE teams to quote, support, and manage transferred customers confidently from day one. Required skills and experience: At least 5 years’ experience of successfully delivering complex transformation programmes within an engineering and manufacturing context, including people, process, and system activities. Strong cross functional leadership and stakeholder management. Solid understanding of change management principles and activities. Ability to interpret commercial, data migration, legal, tax, and operational impacts. Experience in structured governance, risk management, and decision-making frameworks. Excellent communication, documentation, and presentation skills. Strong analytical capability and comfort with data driven decision making. Must be willing to travel regularly and provide on the ground programme leadership Ability to work effectively within a global matrix organisation, embrace diversity and inspire/influence others to be the best they can be. Proven ability to set and maintain direction and hold self and others to account to deliver business outcomes on time and within budget. Required Competencies: Ability to support the creation of a high-performance culture within a systems deployment context. Ability to hold self and others accountable to meet commitments and deliver required business outcomes. Influences and resolves complex requirements challenges across the organization. Works with the wider business to provide insight and feedback on the effectiveness of deployment processes. Rotork is the market-leading global flow control and instrumentation company, helping our customers manage the flow or liquids, gases and powders across many industries worldwide. Our purpose is Keeping the World Flowing for Future Generations. For over sixty years, the world has relied on us to create the things that keep everything moving. From oil and gas to water and shipping, pharmaceuticals and food- these are the flows on which our modern world depends. Today we're respected and admired for our people, performance and products. Our success flows from our commitment to engineering excellence, and that's what we will always pursue, safely and sustainably. Rotork is going through an exciting period of change and growth, building on our existing market success. It's a great time to join us and make an impact in shaping the future of our business.