Senior Project Manager
Do you have a keen interest in project management as a discipline?
At the VELUX Group, we give you the chance to grow. To shape your own career. To work in an international environment. To be part of a company that leads the market in sustainable indoor living. We offer you a world of opportunities - if you have the ability and the drive to take them.
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Do you have a keen interest in project management as a discipline? Do you thrive on working with complex projects in a fast moving and commercial environment, where you know what the customers are looking for? Then this role could be your next career move.
We are looking for an experienced and dedicated senior project manager, who would like to work with complex product development cases creating sustainable and valuable growth for the VELUX Group. This is a rare opportunity to join a team in constant development striving to work closely and effectively with stakeholders ensuring the strategic goals and objectives of the project portfolio.
Your challenges
You will be a part of a team managing global product development projects. With reference to the Director of R&D Project Management, you will be responsible for the whole stage gate process from business case to market launch. The team is newly established and you will play an integral role in establishing best practice and work routines to raise the bar for project management in R&D.
You will communicate and engage with stakeholders on all levels to ensure the necessary support to carry out the project and anchor the commitment in concordance between what goes on in the project and the relevant expectations and opportunities. You will deliver all elements of the project including planning, governance, risk control, change management, process facilitation and management of senior stakeholders.
Other tasks could be to:
- Perform ongoing project management including daily leadership and to communicate in and around the project
- Scope and plan own activities based on agreed high level deliverables
- Facilitate meetings and workshops securing that the objectives are met
- Escalate relevant decisions to gate or line management
- Lead a diverse team of specialists and coordinators and drive high standards across the team using effective coaching and mentoring methods
- Perform R&D lean project execution (visual planning, sprints or concurrent engineering)
- Milestone planning and risk mitigation
Your qualifications
You bring to the position a relevant master’s degree in Economics, Engineering, Business Administration or similar and you combine your theoretical background with at least 5 years of relevant work experience in larger organisations probably from a similar position as senior project manager or program manager.
Besides being a highly skilled project manager, you also have experience from working with business models, process improvements, budgeting, assets planning and team development.
You have excellent communication skills, a high proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint and other relevant project management tools (i.e. Primavera). The role also requires you to be fully proficient in English. You could have experience from establishing partnerships with suppliers.
On a personal level, you organise and manage the development projects with considerable initiative and risk. You act as an entrepreneur and run your projects as a small business, and you are seen as a business leader and an innovator of new ideas and processes. You challenge status quo when you see opportunities for creating better business results.
Your opportunities
We offer an exciting job with great opportunities for professional and personal development and you will join our management- and project management courses to improve your competencies.
In addition to operating at a highly professional level, our team is characterised by an informal tone and a healthy sense of humor. We work as one team to reach our ambitious results and we believe in empowering people, and we support this through sharing knowledge, delegating responsibility and investing in people who strive to make a difference.
The VELUX Group offers exciting challenges, great opportunities of influencing your own development with competent and committed colleagues where commitment, thoroughness and mutual respect are among the core value
Application and contact
If you have any questions about the position or the VELUX Group, please feel free to contact HR Business Partner Susanne De Clerck +45 2469 6108 or find us online www.velux.com.
We are looking forward to receiving your application and CV in Danish or English as soon as possible. We will review applications as they come in and we therefore encourage you to apply as quickly as possible.
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