Chief Project Manager - Partnerships

Are you passionate about building good relationships and driving organizational transformations? Do you enjoy orchestrating complex projects across boundaries, expanding networks and fostering collaboration with global suppliers and partners in manufacturing?

If this sounds like you, this position as Chief Project Manager, Partnerships might be the opportunity you are looking for.

About us

As our new Chief Project Manager, Partnerships you will join a small team of 5 in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering. The team is dedicated to driving and developing our global portfolio of knowledge technology and equipment partners. Our goal is to innovate, develop, and deliver future manufacturing technologies and solutions for Grundfos globally. Our team works closely with manufacturing plants, Group Purchasing, Advanced Manufacturing Engineering colleagues, and external partners including universities and technology suppliers.

What is the job about?

You will lead the development and refinement of our partnership strategies on a global scale. Your responsibilities will include driving complex organizational and technical projects that support our manufacturing technology strategy. You will enhance our ability to integrate external manufacturing technology partners, fostering agility, speed, and scalability. You will challenge existing mindsets and ways of working, interacting with managers and specialists at all levels of the organization. Your projects will span from scoping to successful implementation – this is to meet the business need for:

Collaborating with externals to tap into knowledge that is currently beyond our internal expertise
Partnering for co-development to exploit technologies and knowledge available in the market
Continuously driving value creation, speed, simplicity and agility

This role operates in an international environment and may require up to 25 days of travel per year.

Your background

You are an empathic, organized Chief Project Manager with excellent business acumen. You excel at building relationships and driving organizational transformation. With your strong interpersonal skills and impactful communication, you can effectively influence stakeholders at all levels. You are structured, analytical, and data-driven, capable of prioritizing in a fast-paced environment and identifying the highest-value partners and activities. We envision you having:

A bachelor or master’s degree in engineering or similar
App. 10 years of relevant experience
Solid leadership and/or project management experience
Experience in driving successful change management, preferably in an international, cross-functional matrix organizations
Experience working with technology and equipment for manufacturing
Have good influencing and persuading skills combined with the ability to work globally with respect to different cultures
Fluent in written and spoken English

What’s in it for you?

Whether it’s developing leadership skills or advancing your expertise even further, we’ll support you with continuous learning and development opportunities, to help discuss and steer your long-term Grundfos career path. You’ll be welcomed from day one into an inclusive and trusting environment, where we benefit from sparring and using each other’s competence to deliver on our projects and commitments to the organization guided by six core values.

In addition, your day-to-day benefits include:

• We encourage you to be at the offices, where you can engage, learn, and have fun with colleagues - If you’ll be working from your home office, we’ll make sure you are well equipped with a good workstation

• On top of it, flexible working hours and up to 3 days’ additional paid leave for volunteering of your choice

• Annual bonuses, health insurance, parental support, internal well-being consultants and programmes

• Access to the modern Grundfos Academy to pursue further both personal and professional development

• Diverse, inclusive environment with employee-led forums offering colleagues a safe place to connect and share openly

Do you want to learn more?

If you have questions or would like to know more about this position, please contact Director Partnerships, Mette Lindberg Bregendahl on [email protected]

If this job sounds appealing, please send your resume by clicking “Apply” as soon as possible, since we conduct interviews on an ongoing basis.

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We look forward to hearing from you.