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 Transformation Project Manager to work in our Transformation Management Office. Your initial focus would be in projects related to operating model, organization changes and change management. 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
   

Key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Have project leadership role and ensure high performing team 
• Plan and manage cross functional team in global matrix across business segments
• Facilitate and collaborate across functions to ensure projects are completed successfully 
• Strategic, operational and tactical level project deployment in practice
• Plan and manage people centric change management and communication 
• Prepare steering group materials, executive and board decision making materials
• Contribute in building strong project culture and global project management competencies across Huhtamaki

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. In this role the focus will be initially in the project domains mentioned above, but we are looking for an individual who is interested also in other project domains and can adapt to our project needs in this interesting transformation journey.

Requirements for the role:

• A minimum of 5+ years project and transformation management experience preferred either from similar industry or management consulting in a global environment
• Certification is preferred in PMP, PRINCE2 Foundation or Practitioner, or equivalent or a background in management consulting
• Proven experience in running complex projects in global companies especially with people driven change management approach 
• Strong conceptual skills, yet practical hands-on approach, ability to operate on strategic, operational and tactical level
• Budget, cost, and profitability management skills
• Ability to work with C-level and other senior level stakeholders
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• The ability to deal with uncertainty and work in a dynamic global matrix environment
• Experience in projects for example around digitalization, sustainability, operating models, post merger integrations, operational and commercial excellence
• Ability to apply and enhance Huhtamaki project management methodology for the project 
• Relevant Bachelor or Master’s degree required
• Fluency in English (written and spoken)

To succeed in this role you must be comfortable working with senior leaders in a fast paced, customer centric environment with strong written and verbal communication skills. As we are a global company you must have strong people skills with a drive for results in a matrix organization. In turn this is a great opportunity to deepen your industry experience and work in a global company which is well placed to capitalize on the opportunities in the transforming packaging market.

We are looking for candidates with a proven track record in group wide transformation programs either in management consulting or a global company.
 

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!