Global Project Execution Manager (Solutions)

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This position reports to

Head of Solution Execution Centers

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will oversee Project Management and Engineering functions within the business line Sales and Solutions, with special focus on integrated solutions projects executed across all target segments, covering the engineering scope of tendering, quality, and the PM scope of project execution and availability of skilled and certified PMs. Ensure assigned engineering and PM activities are executed in accordance with company procedures, contract specifications, quality standards, safety requirements, cost/profitability and scheduling targets. The work model for the role is: hybrid Preferred location: Europe You will be mainly accountable for: • Accountable for the consistent, on time, to quality execution of the projects delivered by Sales and Solutions business line • Experience on dealing with customer discussing about issues and way forward • Ensuring development of performance targets in line with global/local targets and their achievement through regular oversight, defining required actions for improvement. • Serving as a point of escalation for individual and systemic engineering/ and project execution issues within the organization and coordination / implementation of corrective actions. • Oversees competency and capacity planning process in the engineering and project management teams. • Identifying opportunities for improvement and oversees improvement activities and share best practices and operational experiences. • Building and maintaining relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to ensure customer satisfaction (i.e. other business lines, Solutions development team, solutions centers, segment leaders/account managers). • Ensuring processes are in place to capture specific functional requirements from the Units. • Supporting global Division and business line Sales and Solutions strategy with defining specific requirements for processes and tools.

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent qualification
• You have a proven experience in Project Management and/or in running large projects
• Should be able to run sizeable projects across different industries and should have the knowledge of Portfolio Management.
• Should have worked in array of Projects with oversight of junior PMs.
• Strong analytical and strategic planning skills
• Strong negotiation and commercial skills
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral
• Highly motivated, results oriented, able to learn quickly
• Constructively questions and challenges assumptions
• Attention to details and organized
• Ability to build and maintain work relationships and networks for collaboration
• Join us and lead the transformation of our project execution, making a tangible difference in our organization and for our customers. If you're driven by excellence and have a passion for innovation, we want to hear from you!

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