Senior Project Manager - Global IRO

Project / Programme Management at Danone

About the job

The Senior Project Manager leads the planning and implementation of complex global innovation, renovation, roll-out programs and projects. Accountable for leading global commercialization process, ensuring all launch and business criteria are achieved on multiple projects simultaneously. This includes optimizing multiple project parameters, including project scope, market timing, cost, quality, multiple stakeholder expectations, and other defined and undefined requirements. Applies leading edge web-based portfolio and project management processes and business/product development/supply chain knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to commercialization project activities to meet or exceed customer expectations and achieve on-time ship-to-trade delivery.

Your key deliveries will be:

• Leads and is accountable for implementation of complex global projects supporting one or more categories/regions and leading a group comprised project leaders and project coordinators who lead commercialization process in priority global markets, ensuring all launch and business criteria/parameters are achieved on multiple projects simultaneously, including project scope, market timing, cost, quality, multiple stakeholder expectations, and other defined and undefined requirements
• Assesses project requests from the business units or sales. Provides preliminary technical, logistical, cost, timeline, customer service, risk/benefit and other feasibility implications. Ensures launch success criteria are clearly defined.
• Develops project implementation plans, including resource allocation, critical path timelines and risk/contingency options. Ensures project timelines include cross-functional input and decision points. Oversees and ensures alignment of critical workflows with the project plan.
• Ensures that project activities/timelines for multi-faceted are integrated. Prioritizes and resolves multiple, conflicting inputs or projects.
• Leads multi-site, cross-functional commercialization implementation teams and oversees coordination/execution of activities. Manages project scope, cost, timing, and quality. Assesses impact of upstream business decision or technical changes/delays on downstream execution deliverables and resolves, proactively, the gaps between functional hand-offs.
• Manages project communication to business teams, across the organization and to senior management. Assesses and facilitates critical project decisions with business teams and/or sr. management to ensure project priorities are optimized.
• Manages project financial risk and contingency planning (COGS, CAPEX, etc.)
• Tracks process metrics and project success criteria. Reports performance measures. Ensures post-launch reviews are conducted.
• Conducts or facilitates root cause investigations when project or process deviations occur and identifies resolutions or corrective actions.
• Actively identifies, recommends and implements process improvements leading to increased speed to market, reduced costs, improved quality, on-time delivery and overall process effectiveness.
• Applies leading edge web-based portfolio and project management processes and business/product development/supply chain knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to commercialization project activities to meet or exceed customer expectations and achieve on-time ship-to-trade delivery.
• Utilizes and populates leading edge web based project management processes and tools with project data (timelines, agenda's, minutes and other critical project information).

About you

Key Requirements:

To be successful in this role you must:

• Act as a connector and integrator of cross functional teams to deliver growth
• Possess End-to-End Organization and Process Knowledge
• Be a global project leader
• Have Business Acumen
• Be an influencer and change leader

Moreover, a project management certification is highly desirable.

About Danone

At Danone, we offer a complete package of benefits, with a competitive primary salary and yearly bonus, but also benefits like a premium free pension, 30 days annual leave and several discounts on a collective health insurance and even on some of our products.

In the Netherlands we also offer a hybrid working environment which enables each team to meet our people's desire for flexibility. Across our 3 office hubs in The Netherlands this helps us create better opportunities for connection & synergies across our entities, teams, functions and categories.