Project Manager - SAP & Digital Projects

Project Manager – SAP & Digital Projects

TMS Global, part of DS Smith, is a global leader in sustainable packaging and retail solutions. Operating in 97 markets worldwide, we partner with some of the world's best-known brands to deliver innovative print, packaging, and display solutions that drive customer engagement, brand impact and commercial success.

TMS is undergoing an exciting period of digital transformation and is seeking a Digital Project Manager to lead the successful delivery of strategic technology and business transformation initiatives across the organisation. This is an opportunity to join a growing global organisation at a pivotal stage in its transformation journey, working with international teams to drive meaningful change, improve operational performance, and enable future growth.

This role can be based anywhere in the UK, if you are happy with infrequent travel to either Manchester or London.

Key responsibilities include:

SAP Business Process Management

• Act as the primary business contact for SAP-related operational and process improvement activities.
• Drive the effective and practical use of SAP across business functions, ensuring processes are optimised and aligned to business requirements.
• Manage and oversee SAP Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) processes, ensuring reliable integration between customers, suppliers, and internal systems.

SAP Issue Management

• Identify, investigate, document, and prioritise SAP system issues, defects, failures, and process breakdowns.
• Act as the liaison between business stakeholders and SAP technical support teams to ensure issues are understood, prioritised, and resolved effectively.
• Facilitate root cause analysis activities and support the implementation of corrective actions.
• Track issue resolution and communicate progress, risks, and impacts to stakeholders.

Project Delivery

• Project management of the end-to-end delivery of business and technology projects from initiation through to implementation and benefits realisation.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, budgets, and resource requirements.
• Manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests, ensuring appropriate governance is maintained.
• Facilitate project meetings, steering groups, workshops, and stakeholder engagement sessions.
• Produce clear and concise project documentation, reports, and status updates.
• Ensure successful transition of project outcomes into operational business processes.

Stakeholder & Client Management

• Build and manage effective stakeholder relationships, facilitating requirements gathering and translating business needs into SAP and project delivery solutions that support strategic objectives.

Change & Adoption

• Lead change and adoption activities through effective communication, training, stakeholder engagement, and post-implementation reviews to maximise business value and continuous improvement.

Governance & Continuous Improvement

• Ensure delivery within governance and compliance frameworks while promoting best practice, strengthening project controls, and supporting the ongoing maturity of digital transformation capabilities.

What You'll Bring to the Role

You'll have practical experience working with SAP in a business-critical operational environment, including managing EDI processes and identifying system issues in SAP modules such as FI, MM, and SD. While project management experience would be beneficial, we're equally interested in individuals with strong SAP expertise who are keen to broaden their skills. If that's you, we'll support your development through training and hands-on project opportunities.

“To achieve our aim of being among the most successful, sustainable and responsible companies in the world, we aim to build a diverse, motivated, and engaged workforce. Our goal is to create a culture of inclusion where everyone is treated fairly, differences are valued, and everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed.

Our people come from diverse backgrounds, bring different perspectives, ideas and experiences to generate unique solutions focused on present and future sustainability challenges. We welcome all candidates to apply, even those not meeting all criteria.”

What we can offer you:

• Competitive salary
• Qualifying Sick Pay scheme
• Pension scheme & Life insurance
• Share Save scheme
• Income Protection
• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Virtual GP, Occupational Health & free Flu vaccine
• Cycle to Work and shopping discounts

About Us

We are DS Smith, together with International Paper, we are a global leader in sustainable packaging solutions and other fibre-based products. We believe a better, more sustainable tomorrow is possible with the right people, who challenge and support one another to enact positive change. We employ more than 60,000 colleagues in North America and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), who are experts in innovation, manufacturing, design, sales, sustainability, supply chain, and much more. Together with our customers, we make the world safer and more productive, one sustainable packaging solution at a time. Become part of a world-leading organisation and do your best work with us!

As the journey continues of bringing together the strengths of both organisations, during your candidate experience you may engage with our colleagues from International Paper! You could visit an International Paper or DS Smith site or office.