Technical Project Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Project Manager to join our world class delivery team, operating as part of the Northern Europe. The role is based at the Stockholm office in Sweden, where customers are primarily from Scandinavia in the Food and Beverage sector requiring automation solutions. Project managers are expected to manage average to large size projects with more software, more services and more sustainability with organizational and technical complexity.

You will manage projects in back office mode and follow applicable company polices and processes (main one being CPP: Customer Project Process).In addition, you will functionally lead the project team across functions and teams to insure full customer satisfaction and financial performance.

You must have a strategic approach to capture additional business for our company directly or not related to the program especially linked to digital and services as per our company vision.

This role will be instrumental in ensuring that project delivery in our Cluster is in adherence to both global and local governance and cadence policies delivering successful projects to customers within the region. Contributes to project managers community of practice.

Some of your key responsibilities will include:

• Management of the full project execution lifecycle for a portfolio of customer projects. You will be the customer primary point of contact, building long term relationships and becoming trusted partners
• Take full accountability and control over project profitability (sales, margin & cash) including forecasting. Ensure timely revenue recognition as per forecast. Implement profitability improvement actions. Satisfy entity and country expectations on sales, margin and cash collection.
• Develop customer intimacy (including end-user if applicable), drive all communication with customer. Insure highest level of customer satisfaction throughout the lifecycle of the project to prepare ground for futur business.
• Coordination of Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Production, Test, Product Development, Purchasing and Quality Assurance activities to deliver solutions to our customers
• Supporting and mentoring less experienced members of the team
• Perform on regular basis risk and opportunity assessment and implement action plan to mitigate risks and maximise opportunities.
• Monitor, control & report project execution status, progress & KPIs. Ensure full & effective reporting to management (reports, project reviews, risk escalation reviews...).
• Alert the management about project events impacting project performance or compliance with governance principles and keep the leadership on the actions related to them
• Ensure project team and suppliers are executing the project in full compliance with Schneider-Electric processes, quality instructions and governance principles. Take all necessary actions to correct any deviations or quality issues occurring during project execution.
• Manage Cybersecurity risk and actions linked to cybersecurity with all team members and customers/suppliers/service providers/sub-contractors.

The desired skills and experience are:

• Minimum 4 years in managing a large project (Recognised project management qualifications will be considered an advantage)
• Proven track record of delivering process automation or digital transformation solutions for external customers
• Suitable educational background in a technical field (i.e Engineer) and excellent IT-skills
• Good written and spoken Swedish and English
• Knowledge of managing and reporting on all financial aspects of assigned projects, the ability to negotiate contract variations and be familiar with general contract terms and conditions.
• Ability to understand, influence & convince in a complex matrix organisation, use strong internal and external networking to develop additional business

To be successful in the role you need to have strong leadership, strong interpersonal and communication skills with the motivation and determination required to succeed. We are looking for someone who can demonstrate flexibility and resilience in a challenging and fast-moving environment.

We are offering you a great place to work, where you will play a key role in a team influencing our exciting growth journey! You'll be part of an international market-leading company and the support of a team of specialist in a varying and diverse role. We believe that having a strong focus on individual growth, education, and well-being is important. You'll have freedom under responsibility and possibility to grow in the most sustainable company in the world!

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