Technical Programme Manager - high-end process equipment for pharma/biotech

On behalf of Watson-Marlow Flexicon Ltd., based in Ringsted, we offer you a new position as Programme Manager. The role will have full accountability for a portfolio of key strategic engineering development projects, primarily within New Product Innovation (NPI).

Since 1986, the company has been the market leader in the development and manufacture of customer-specific solutions for aseptic filling and encapsulation for the pharmaceutical and biotechnical industries.

Watson-Marlow Flexicon’s 70 competent and committed employees in Ringsted strive daily to deliver high-end high-quality solutions to customers all over the world (export share 95%+). The target group is laboratory productions and small to medium-sized batch productions that require flexibility, efficiency and very high precision in a sterile environment.

Watson-Marlow Flexicon offers its customers worldwide a wide range of process solutions from stand-alone devices to manual filling over semi-automatic systems to fully automatic filling and capsulating machines to highly regulated industries where strong documentation and traceability are paramount.

Your role

This role will have full accountability for a portfolio of key strategic development projects, ensuring delivery to time, cost and quality. Typically handling 5-7 projects in different phases simultaneously. Often with both technical and commercial NPI project content, where timelines need to be secured accordingly. In a matrix organization you will be part of the international NPI project organization within Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG).
As a Programme Manager, you will need to put together detailed resource and financial plans, track outstanding work to be completed, set deadlines and delegate tasks to your project teams, identifying and managing any potential risks. Ultimately, you will be responsible for the team completing the project work in line with the plans and will need to report progress to senior managers on a continuous basis. For the right applicant, this is an extremely exciting position with possibilities for both professional and personal development.

Your primary tasks will be:

• Initiating projects – verify feasibility and work out budgets, teams and resources
• Carrying out robust project planning – this will include setting team goals and project objectives, defining roles and producing schedules and timelines for tasks in accordance with the needs of the business.
• Ensuring projects adhere to the company standard processes, in terms of approvals, reporting, deliverables, etc.
• Leading and motivating your project team, ensuring that the team continuously performs
• Monitoring and controlling the project deliverables, driving action and improvement using Key Performance Indicators and Visual Management
• Identifying and managing risks through proactive mitigation to ensure project delivery remains on track
• Working both with the Head of R&D (in the U.K.) and the Manager Design & Engineering (on-site in Ringsted) to review project priorities, undertake impact assessments, with the ability to appreciate the strategic importance of project delivery in relation to the overall performance

Your background and competences

The ideal candidate matches the following:

• Solid Project Management experience, and preferably Programme Management experience
• Experience with running complicated machine and process development projects
• Experience with running technology development project
• Ideally have experience from a fast-paced product development environment
• Hold a project management certification (ideally a professionally accredited Project Manager)
• Have excellent stakeholder management and organizational skills
• Fluent business and technical English skills verbal and in writing are mandatory, Danish language skills are preferred
• Be a good communicator, able to articulate the project requirements and progress of the project clearly to all levels within the business
• Persistent and operate with a sense of urgency to meet deadlines. You enjoy a busy working day and can progress several tasks in parallel
• Motivating and inspiring by nature and can secure the necessary support and resources from the wider business, etc.
• A team player with fine cultural understanding

Watson-Marlow Flexicon offers you

Watson-Marlow Flexicon is an ambitious growth company with sustained high growth rates and a healthy economic situation. You will have a very central role in the company's ambitious and innovative approach – given lots of responsibility, high expectations and trust from the start.

In a company that works actively according to basic values around Customer Focus, Excellence, Respect, Integrity, Safety and Collaboration. Diversity and inclusion are also important values in the company.

The entire organization also has a strong focus on employee well-being, where safety and sustainability come first and where, as a new employee from day 1, you are introduced to a solid and informative introductory program. Locally in Ringsted there is a flat organizational structure, and it is easy to seek professional sparring and help from your colleagues.

Your workday will have an international focus, as you will collaborate closely with your colleagues from the international part of the group. Approximately 30 days of travel activity per year must be expected.

Interested?

Apply for this position by clicking on the application button, where you can upload your CV and a short, motivated cover letter – preferably in English.

If any questions about the position, you are welcome to contact Senior Recruitment Consultant in Hartmanns Mads Jakobsen on mobile +45 4121 1326 / [email protected].

Start-up will be as soon as possible.

Hartmanns A / S handles the recruitment process, which is why all inquiries should be directed to Hartmanns. We call in relevant candidates for interviews on a regular basis and keep the opportunity open to close the contract before the application deadline.