Head of Project Management (m/w/d) SEB Professional
What you can expect
Develop and implement project management strategies aligned with the organization's goals and objectives
- Establish and enforce aligned processes as well as quality standards for projects
- Ensure projects are delivered within approved financial constraints in close collaboration with Product Management and Controlling
- Identify, assess, and manage project risks
Oversee the entire project portfolio, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities
- Ensure continuous alignment with market and business needs (main counterpart: product management)
- Ensure continuous alignment with functional leads and resource owners
- Serve as first level escalation in case of resource and capacity conflicts
Provide leadership and mentorship to project managers and project teams
- Foster a collaborative and high-performance culture within the project management department
- Competence Management and Associate Development (Project Managers)
What you need to succeed with us
Education: University degree, PhD, MBA, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Project Management
- 8+ years practical experience in managing project organisations
- 8+ years professional experience in similar functions and leading high skill employees
- 5+ years’ experience in project management (personally managing R&D projects)
- R&D experience in relation to manufacturing with an international background, quality, product management and value engineering
- Preferably experienced in B2B
- Experience managing distributed, international organizations
- Entrepreneur and business thinking
- Analytical thinking, convincing communication
- Dealing with complexity, ambiguity and volatility
Experience and Background
Proven successful records in:
- Project management and execution in complex, technical driven environments
- Building successful project management organisation with set-up of structures and processes
- Successful execution of both customer projects as well as portfolio projects / product development
- Working experience in global, blue chip company
Strong understanding of:
- Project Execution Management
- Distributed organisations with respective process landscapes
- Measures on how to achieve and balance project KPI (Time, Cost, Quality)
- Technical & Growth mind set is plus
Languages:
- Fluent in English. German and/or French or further global language