NPD Junior Project Manager

Location: Towcester
Salary: £35,000 - £40,000
Job Type: Perm
Sector: Engineering & Manufacturing
Date Posted: 5 November 2026
Reference: 56127

About The Role

  • Perm
  • Towcester
  • £35,000 - £40,000 GBP / Year

The One Group

Junior NPD Project Manager | Logistics Products | £35,000 – £40,000 | Towcester | 2 days WFH

Can you turn customer challenges into practical, market-ready products?

My client supply their product range into some one of most well-known logistics businesses around the world. They have a solid history of over 50 years and continually innovate their offerings to stay at the forefront of their industry.

The role will be incredibly varied. Your aim will be to ensure successful project delivery across a range of varied and interesting assignments simultaneously. You will need to be able to work both at pace and with sharp detail.

This is a junior to early-mid level PM role, so you will need existing experience in project management. You don’t need to have lead large projects on your own, but ideally you’ve got somewhere between 2-5 years in a project delivery role, possibly as a coordinator or administrator. You’ll need to have experience of knowing how to successfully coordinate a project across multiple departments and stakeholders.

In return, a solid salary range of £35,000 – £40,000 is on offer. Monday & Friday WFH, Tuesday – Thursday in a modern office in Towcester. 37.5 hours per week and 25 days holiday.

 

What will you need?

  • Project Management experience – flexible with industry but ideally a manufacturing/engineering/logistics/industrial background

  • Ability to understand complex product diagrams/schematics

  • Comfortable with being uncomfortable – it’s a fast paced role, with customers who have high expectations

 

We are looking to shortlist immediately, so please apply now for consideration!

For more information, please call The ONE Group’s Engineering & Manufacturing Division on 01733 234000.

Recruitment as it should be.

To apply for this job email your details to eiredale@theonegroup.co.uk

About The ONE Group

The ONE Group is a specialist recruitment consultancy with offices in Cambridge, Peterborough, Northampton, and Hertfordshire.

We recruit across Technology, Engineering & Manufacturing, Scientific, Sales, and Marketing, with consultants who specialise in their sector rather than trying to cover everything. This focused approach allows us to provide deeper market knowledge, stronger networks, and better hiring outcomes for both clients and candidates.

Our expertise spans permanent, contract, and senior-level appointments. Most importantly, the majority of our business comes from repeat clients and referrals, reflecting the long-term relationships we build and the trust we earn through consistently delivering results.

What Happens Next

1

One of our consultants will review your application within one working day.

2

If your experience looks like a fit, we'll be in touch for a quick conversation to understand what you're looking for.

3

From there, we'll talk you through the role properly, prepare you for interview, and stay alongside you through to your start date.

4

Whatever happens with this role, we'll keep your details on file, with your permission, so we can flag other opportunities that suit you.

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THE ONE GROUP

Where we're from,
and how we got here

Twenty years of specialist recruitment in the East – and a lot of small decisions that added up.

TOG started in Peterborough in 2004 with a small team and a simple idea: that recruitment is a people business, done best by specialists who stay in their sector long enough to know it properly.

More than two decades on, we've grown into four offices across the East of England and Home Counties. We recruit for finance leaders, HR directors, engineering managers, tech founders, scientists, and the commercial teams that keep businesses running day to day. Between us, we've built up over 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of more than 150,000 candidates we've placed, coached, or come to know across two decades in the region.

The founding principle hasn't changed. Recruitment as it should be.

OUR STORY

Key events timeline

2004

Doors open in Peterborough.

Our first office launches with a team of six on Lynch Wood. Cambridge follows the same year, giving us two offices before our first anniversary.

2015

Northampton makes it three.

Our third office opens with a team of five, quickly growing to eleven consultants covering the wider Midlands region.

2017

Peterborough moves across the road.

The team has outgrown the founding office. We move into Arena House on Lynch Wood, big enough for a growing consultant base and the back-office team that supports the whole group.

2018

Cambridge moves too.

Our second office relocates to Cambourne Business Park, giving the growing Cambridge team the space it now needs.

2023

Four offices, three counties, one very good year.

The Hertfordshire & Essex office opens in Potters Bar, extending our footprint into the Home Counties.

In the same year, we're named Business of the Year in Northamptonshire, and Employer of the Year in both Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire at the regional SME Business Awards. Three counties, three panels.

TODAY

Still growing.

Four offices, more than 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of over 150,000 candidates.

Same founding principle.

SPECIALISTS BY DESIGN

What we do

We're specialists, not generalists. Every consultant at TOG focuses on one sector and stays in it. Not because it's the only way to do recruitment, but because it's how you build the depth to spot the difference between a strong CV and a strong hire.

It's also why so many of our clients come back to us years, even decades, after a first placement.

01
Accountancy & Finance
→
 02
Human Resources
→
 03
Commercial Office
Administration, customer service, project management and more
→
 04
Technology
→
 05
Engineering & Manufacturing
→
 06
Scientific
→
 07
Sales, Marketing & Creative
→
 08
Executive Search
Across all of the above
→

Beyond the recruitment itself, we produce annual salary guides, regional market reports, and the practical resources our clients and candidates turn to when they want a clearer view of what's happening in their sector.

THE WAY WE WORK

How we work

Four principles show up in every conversation and every process.
01

Be curious.

We stay interested in the market we work in, and in the people who work in it.

02

Keep it human.

We remember your kids' names and know how you take your coffee. That's just how we work here.

03

Make a difference.

We're here to help people build careers they love and businesses they're proud of.

04

Enjoy the ride.

Recruitment is a career, but it should be fun too. If it isn't, we've done something wrong.

WHAT COMES NEXT?

Recruitment
as it should be.

Hire with TOG → Looking for a role →
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