Senior Transformation Project Manager

Inspired to grow with your experience, learn and share with new colleagues?
 

Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste.

We are committed to protecting food, people and the planet and are on the lookout for passionate and consummate professionals to join our growing team to help us deliver on our ambitious 2030 Strategy. We look for colleagues who Care, Dare and Deliver.

Digitalization is a cornerstone of our strategy, enabling us to drive our ambitions in growth, productivity, and sustainability. The Digital & Process Performance function serves as the transformation engine driving the upgrade of our digital core. By digitalizing our operations, we aim to enhance efficiency and effectiveness, deliver superior customer experiences, mitigate risks, and ensure business continuity—all while paving the way for next-generation innovations.

The Digital & Process Performance (DPP) function is organized into key teams to drive transformation effectively. Processes & Applications focuses on modernizing core business processes, while Data & Analytics enables data-driven decision-making. IT Operations ensures reliable and secure IT infrastructure, and the Transformation Management Office (TMO) drives Huhtamaki wide business transformation initiatives with strategic goals.

We are now looking for a talented Senior Transformation Project Manager to work in our Transformation Management Office. This role reports to our VP, Transformation Management Office. As part of the TMO you will be at the forefront of shaping our future success, working with key strategic programs and projects across Huhtamaki together with senior leaders from our business segments and functions globally. This is an exciting opportunity for transformation professionals who enjoy working with group wide transformation topics such as but not limited to:

• digitalization of operations
• sustainability
• operational excellence
• commercial excellence
• new operating models

Responsibilities and key activities:
 

Project Management:

• Develop project charter and management plan
• Define and validate project scope
• Develop and control project schedule
• Estimate budget and control cost
• Manage and control quality
• Acquire resources and manage team
• Plan and manage project change management and communication
• Identify and mitigate risks
• Conduct and control procurements
• Identify stakeholders and manage stakeholder engagement
   

Project Leadership:

• Take project leadership role and ensure high team performance
• Facilitate and encourage collaboration across departments to ensure projects are completed successfully
• Identify and resolve issues that arise in the project and conflicts in the team
• Project evaluation and conduct retrospective
   

Reporting and documentation:

• Prepare project steering group presentations, documentation and meetings
• Maintain all documentation in project repository
   

Implementing standard tools and methodology:

• Plan and manage the project guided by the Huhtamaki project methodology
• Implement standard project tools based on PMI standards in the projects

The TMO is working as an agile team, and key responsibilities for specific areas will be allocated among the team members based on experience, skills, and interest. We are looking for an individual who is interested in several transformation project areas and can adapt to our project needs in this interesting transformation journey.

Requirements for the role:

• Min. 8 years project management experience from an international environment
• Expert-level knowledge of project and change management, methodologies, techniques, processes (e.g., Project and Portfolio Management Methodology - PPM).
• PMP, PRINCE2 Foundation or Practitioner, or equivalent preferred
• Proven experience in running large complex, multi-dimensional and transformative projects. 
• Ability to apply and enhance Huhtamaki project management methodology for the project (e.g., waterfall vs agile)
• Budget, cost, and profitability management skills.
• High-level of communication, interpersonal skills to cultivate and maintain stakeholder management and relationships
• Master’s degree, from a relevant field required
• Fluency in English (written and spoken), other languages are seen as a plus

One extremely relevant point to note about Huhtamaki is that the organization is global in a way that not many others are. Even though the position and our HQ is in Finland our business and counterparts are spread all around the world. Our culture is international in the very essence of the word with our values Care, Dare and Deliver guiding our everyday work. To succeed in building bridges between data and business at Huhtamaki you need to be able to build bridges between cultures and people.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your CV and application through the link no later than the 26th of January 2025. The position will be filled as soon as the right candidate is found.

What’s in it for you?
 

Work for a cause – Huhtamaki is protecting food, people, and the planet. Sustainable food packaging cuts down on food waste which is a major ecological problem. What we do really matters. Huhtamaki is going through a major transformation, and this is an exciting and unique opportunity to join our Transformation Management Office team in Digital and Process Performance in a global and sizeable business with sustainability at the core of the strategy.

You will get to work with experienced, skilled colleagues and stakeholders. The office is in Espoo as is most of Digital and Process Performance team. Being a truly global organization, we are very flexible on the practical arrangements of the work, if you can be on-site when needed.

Join us to shape the future together!