Project Group Manager - Outside Sales Manager Electrozad LON, a Sonepar Company

What’s In It For You?

• You will be joining a market leader with over 40 years of experience to help you elevate your potential.
• You will be working for the world's #1 privately held business to business distributor of electrical products and related solutions.
• A chance to get involved in the forever growing electrical industry.
• We house the largest inventory to better service our customers and deliver on sales commitments.
• An opportunity for career development across many business departments within our organization.

Summary

The Project Group Manager is responsible for leading and overseeing the London-based project team to ensure the successful planning, execution, and delivery of projects aligned with company goals, client expectations, and revenue growth objectives. This role provides hands‑on leadership in project delivery within the London market, ensuring efficiency, quality, and client satisfaction.

In addition to managing the local project team, this position maintains a collaborative oversight role with the Sales function in London, supporting alignment between project delivery and business development efforts. While broader team coordination remains under central leadership, this role plays a key part in supporting pipeline visibility, identifying local opportunities, and contributing to long‑term client success within the region.

Job Duties

• Lead and oversee the London project team to ensure successful delivery of projects on time, within scope, and on budget.
• Manage day‑to‑day project execution, including planning, scheduling, resource allocation, and risk mitigation.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and direction to drive team performance, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Monitor project progress and communicate status, risks, and outcomes clearly to leadership and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with clients and internal teams to define scope, expectations, and deliverables, ensuring high client satisfaction.
• Support and align with the London Sales function by providing visibility into delivery capacity, timelines, and project feasibility.
• Contribute to project scoping, estimating, and identifying opportunities for extensions or repeat business within the region.
• Ensure adherence to company standards, processes, and client requirements across all London‑based projects.

Required Skills & Competencies

• Strong leadership with ability to manage and motivate teams in complex, multi‑project environments.
• Excellent organizational, problem‑solving, and decision‑making skills.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, resource planning, and risk management.
• Strong understanding of the sales lifecycle and profitability (margins, utilization).
• Ability to scope, cost, and translate client needs into scalable solutions.
• Effective communicator with strong client‑facing and presentation skills.

Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, Engineering, Project Management, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of experience in the sales/ preferred wholesale electrical industry.
• 5–7 years of progressive project management experience, or related experience.
• Demonstrated experience delivering cross‑functional, client‑facing projects.
• Experience defining or improving PMO processes or delivery standards is preferred.
• Project Management certification (PMP, PgMP, Prince2, Agile, or equivalent) considered an asset.
• Experience driving growth within an entrepreneurial environment.
• Possess the ability to motivate, inspire, provide and accept feedback to and from employees.
• Excellent spoken and written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to lead the development, communication and implementation of effective growth strategies and processes including marketing.
• Ability to provide timely, accurate and clear reports.
• Possess the ability to delegate, set expectations and monitor progress of all direct reports.
• Excellent computer skills, including ability to work with Microsoft Outlook, Word & Excel.

Benefits & Perks

We offer a competitive salary, plus a full set of benefits, including:

• Flexible benefits program allowing you to choose from options that best fit you and your dependents’ needs. Benefit options include: Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Spending Account & RRSP matching.
• Employee Assistance Program, Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Discounts and a career path.
• Regardless of your benefits program, you will receive company paid Life Insurance, and employee paid disability.

Pay transparency: the company may pay at a rate outside of the range for this role where appropriate. Actual compensation is commensurate with the candidate’s experience, education, internal parity, role complexity, role level, and other relevant factors. The advertised salary range relates to Ontario and is provided in accordance with the Ontario Pay Transparency Act. Salaries may vary outside of Ontario.

Sonepar is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes submissions from all candidates. Accommodation is available to all applicants upon request. If selected for an interview, please advise the Sonepar representative of your accommodation needs at that time. We will work with all applicants to accommodate their accessibility needs.

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