Senior Project Manager

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Senior Project Manager - EU SCM (Temp until 15/10/2027)

This is a key in-house strategy position for an organized, passionate and goal-oriented future leader who understands what projects have in common, and their strategic role in how organizations succeed, learn and change.

• Drive major change initiatives across functions
• Manage (senior) stakeholder's relationship and secure buy-ins to project deliverables
• Furthering project management capabilities and knowledge management of the team
• Uphold and enhance the brand of EU SCM with (senior) stakeholders

Key Responsibilities :

• Lead overall program, project and work streams deliverables (e.g. project planning, milestones execution and monitoring) in alignment with strategic direction
• Develop feasibility studies for new scope / new business, building scenarios, recommendations and risk analysis
• Manage effective and timely communication on project progress and results to sponsors and senior management
• Effectively deploy project management toolkit across work streams to ensure high quality and consistency of deliverables
• Monitor and highlight any project variables (cost, effort, scope, etc.) against the project plan and make suggestions to implement corrective or preventative actions.
• Manage and support processes and tools that increases transparency on cost and cost drivers of the Supply Chain
• Manage departmental activities (e.g. knowledge sharing and employer branding)

Key Relationships:

• Drive project activities and connect with other stakeholders to share activities across work streams
• Initiate and drive discussions with x-functional stakeholders to collect and consolidate feedback, prepare and align solutions
• Proactively manage stakeholders, build relationships and manage communication
• Stakeholders can relate to the following core functions:
• EU SCM (all functions)
• EU Market (all functions)
• GOPS (Global IT, etc.)
• Corporate functions (e.g. ...