Senior Project Leader EN (m/f/d)

Your responsibilities:

• Active leadership of cross-functional & multi-regional project teams for assigned projects from the beginning of feasibility to project closure.
• Effective project timeline, cost and resource planning and tracking with a clear focus on achieving the agreed project goals.
• Ensure endorsement and alignment of project goals, resourcing, costs and timelines with senior management and other key stakeholders.
• Assess, manage, and adequately report project risks by actively creating scenario planning for major project risks on critical path.
• Consolidate project status reporting for portfolio analysis and statistical evaluation of the project (deviation analyzes, tracking KPIs, financial forecasts and annual budget process)
• Maintain the relevant Project Management tools always with highest possible data quality as an input for portfolio analysis and reporting.
• Represent overall project team for key project status updates to Management Team, and other internal stakeholders and drive expected decisions in stakeholder meetings.
• Contribute optimization and maintenance of project management systems, processes, guidelines, SOPs by ensuring a learning feedback loop for continuous improvement.

Your profile:

• You have a completed university degree in Natural sciences (preferably nutritional science), food engineering, food technology, industrial engineering, business administration
• You have at least 5 years work experience in project management of product development projects in enteral / clinic nutrition or FMCG (preferably food) in a global scale
• You have an intensive knowledge of regulatory requirements in the field of Food, FSMP or nutrition product development
• You hold a Project management certification, e.g: PMP (PMI), IPMA (level C) or equivalent of advantage
• You have very good skills in the MS Office suite
• You have experience with project management software (e.g. MS Project, Planisware)
• You are fluent in the English language (written & spoken)