VP, Head of Projects - Transportation
**Do you want to lead project excellence across some of the largest and most complex infrastructure projects in Denmark? Are you an experienced project leader with a commercial mindset? Can you inspire and develop experienced project managers while improving project and portfolio performance? Then this could be the perfect opportunity for you.
** Create the solutions that will enable a better tomorrow
To further strengthen our project leadership and support the development of Transportation in Denmark, we are looking for a Vice President, Head of Projects. In this role, you will lead and develop a team of approximately 15 experienced multidisciplinary project managers, while taking direct responsibility for selected strategic projects. You will also have portfolio responsibility for medium-sized and smaller projects led by project managers across the organisation. You will report to the Senior Vice President, Transportation, in Denmark.
You will play a central role in connecting project delivery, portfolio performance, and strategic priorities. The portfolio comprises approximately 350 projects, from large multidisciplinary projects to smaller single-discipline assignments across key transportation disciplines. As a member of the Transportation leadership team, you will contribute to the strategic and operational development of the business.
Your key responsibilities will be to:
Lead and develop a team of multidisciplinary project managers, ensuring clear priorities and high-quality delivery across the portfolio.
Act as project manager on selected strategic projects, with responsibility for scope, schedule, risk, commercial performance, and client satisfaction.
Oversee and develop a portfolio of approximately 350 projects, ensuring governance, resource allocation, risk management, financial control, and profitable delivery.
Improve commercial performance by identifying risks and opportunities early, leading contract and client negotiations, and balancing quality, customer value, and profitability.
Advance project management excellence across Transportation by developing ways of working and promoting collaboration and knowledge sharing across projects and disciplines.
Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.
The first step to success in this role is your ability to combine strong project management expertise with commercial understanding, stakeholder engagement, and people leadership. You thrive in complex environments where collaboration, cross-team coordination, and professional credibility are essential. You are committed to developing project managers, strengthening project delivery, and creating long-term value for our customers.
On top of that, you will have:
A degree in civil engineering or other relevant education.
Extensive project management experience from large multidisciplinary infrastructure projects in Denmark.
A commercial mindset and solid understanding of portfolio performance, contracts, negotiations, risk, client relations, and financial results.
Experience developing project management competences and ways of working across teams or portfolios.
Fluent written and verbal communication skills in Danish and English.
A place to work and so much more
At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.
We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.
With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.
Work location
The position is based in Lyngby or Aarhus, Denmark, with regular travel across our offices.
Want to know more?
Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com , where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.
Before you apply
All you need to include in your application is your CV – no photo or application letter. At an interview, you can tell us everything we need to know about why you’re interested in joining COWI. As for the photo, we prefer to form our first impression in person rather than from a picture.
Diversity is fundamental to COWI, inclusion is key.
We are committed to creating a respectful and fair work environment where all employees have a sense of belonging and equitable opportunities to thrive and grow. We ensure that our leaders are role models for inclusive leadership by cultivating a culture where diverse perspectives and thoughts are seen as strengths. And we take diversity and inclusion into account in all relevant decisions and processes and when setting teams and fora. We do it because it is part of our values and because it is simply the right thing to do.