Project Manager

About the Project Manager Role:

We at KONE Business Services (KBS) are looking for a project manager to join our project, program and portfolio management team to drive our strategic projects and/or cross-functional initiatives at KONE to completion. Our ambition is to become the next generation GBS organization that maximizes the value to KONE units and functions.

Our ideal candidate has 4-6 years of hands-on project management experience complemented by a functional knowledge of either IT, Finance, M&A or Sourcing & Procurement. This role requires the ability to lead or contribute to various types of projects with groups of stakeholders from various disciplines at the same time.

Responsibilities:

• Plan, prepare and execute projects, programs, transformations or other cross-functional initiatives (e.g. ERP deployments, M&A) from start to finish on high-quality and timely manner

• Provide insightful project status updates and navigate the projects according to their risk landscape

• Ensure proper communication, documentation and stakeholder management, ensure lessons learned are clearly captured.

• Maintain strong collaboration and relationship with the KBS teams, as well as with stakeholders from KONE units and global functions

• Participate in the development of our project management methodology

Competences:

• Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects/deliverables with competing deadlines to successful completion (i.e., in a quality and timely manner)

• Understanding and experience of working at least in one of the following disciplines: Finance, IT, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sourcing & Procurement

• Working experience in M&A transaction projects is preferred, including having familiarity with the stages of M&A process, including due diligence, integration planning, and post-merger integration.

• Proactive in nature, actively participates and self-motivated. Biased towards action and possessing a growth mindset

• Great teammate, willing to passionately roll up their sleeves and to get things done

• Excellent interpersonal and intercultural skills allowing effective collaboration across all functions with various levels of stakeholders

• Clear storyteller, able to explain project benefits, plans, status and impact across the organization. Ability to structure and present quantitative and qualitative data in a compelling and convincing fashion adapted to the audience; strong writing, presentation, and communication skills required.

• Curiosity and drive to succeed: individually and as a team; willingness to learn and lead by doing

• Excellent PowerPoint and Excel skills. Experience in using project management tools (e.g. Jira, MS Project) is a plus

• Willingness to travel as required by projects (5-10%)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, information technology, business administration or from a related field. Master’s degree is a plus.

• Minimum of 4 years of relevant hands-on experience in project management, ideally leading global cross-functional projects such as IT, transitions, quality or development

• Certified project management professional (PMP, PRINCE2, SCRUM) preferred

• Lean and Six Sigma Training/certification preferred.

We offer you the basic salary starting from 2.400 EUR/gross, but the final compensation will be agreed with regard to your experience.

Apart from the strong support in your induction and training, ability to work with great team leaders and colleagues, we also offer you the following benefits:

• Finnish working culture with strong history and innovative spirit

• Job rotation opportunities (career growth support)

• Interesting language learning budget (courses)

• Regular soft & hard skills training available for you

• Cafeteria - Online Benefit portal (different brands/partners to shop)

• Annual Performance Bonus

• Extra vacation day & Sick days

• Multisport card support

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

Read more on www.kone.com/careers