As a people leader, this position manages and develops project management team members assigned to customer and solution-specific portfolios. The Manager provides day-to-day direction, governance, coaching, escalation support, and operating cadence across a portfolio of concurrent projects. The Manager acts as a key interface between customers, internal engineering and delivery teams, installation, Procurement, Manufacturing, Controlling and other functional leadership.We offer:
•Career Development
•Competitive Compensation and Benefits
•Pay Transparency
•Global Opportunities
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Key Responsibilities
Leadership & People Management
- Lead, coach, and develop project management team members, fostering a culture of inclusion, accountability, customer focus, and continuous improvement.
- Set clear expectations, manage performance, strengthen leadership capability, and support succession and career development for team members.
Project & Program Execution
- Provide oversight for a portfolio of concurrent modernization and upgrade projects of varying scope and complexity, including controls, software, mechanical, electrical, installation, system upgrade, and capacity expansion workstreams.
- Ensure effective transition from Sales to Operations, including pre-contract support, estimating input, and leadership of project kickoff processes.
- Drive the development and execution of comprehensive project plans, including implementation, testing, acceptance, cutover, and go-live strategies.
- Act as the primary point of escalation for complex project, customer, financial, or technical issues, ensuring timely resolution.
- Ensure alignment and coordination across project management, software, controls, electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, installation, vendors, subcontractors, and integrator partners supporting project delivery.
Financial & Risk Management
- Own financial performance across the assigned project portfolio, including forecasting, revenue recognition, cost-to-complete, invoicing, cash flow, and profitability analysis.
- Establish and monitor project milestones, billable deliverables, and invoicing schedules.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, ensuring proactive issue management and governance.
- Ensure accurate project closeout and turnover to service and support organizations.
Customer & Business Engagement
- Serve as a customer interface, building trusted relationships and ensuring customer expectations are met or exceeded.
- Support identification of follow-on business opportunities in collaboration with sales and lifecycle services teams.
- Represent Project Management in strategic planning, operational reviews, customer reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Skills & Capabilities
- Exceptional leadership, coaching, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong customer focus with excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
- Advanced project and program management skills, including scope, schedule, cost, risk, and quality management.
- Ability to manage multiple complex initiatives simultaneously in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with attention to detail.
Experience Desired
- 5+ years of successful experience leading projects or project function, preferably in automation, logistics, manufacturing, lifecycle services, or large customer-dedicated portfolio environments.
- Proven experience managing large-scale project portfolios, and significant customer-facing revenue responsibility.
- Strong understanding of automation systems, controls architectures, and systems integration; solid working knowledge of industrial and enterprise software systems.
- Experience with schedule and change management, demonstrated leadership in safety excellence, permit and installation processes, material supply chains, contract administration, subcontractor management, and risk management.
- Proficiency with project management tools and MS Office; Microsoft Project or equivalent required.
Education & Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree in Business, Engineering, Construction Management, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- PMP certification preferred but not required.
Additional Job Description
- Travel required up to 30% of time.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience leading projects or a project function
- Experience managing large-scale project portfolios
- Significant customer-facing revenue responsibility
- Understanding of automation systems, controls architectures, and systems integration
- Working knowledge of industrial and enterprise software systems
- Experience with schedule and change management
- Leadership in safety excellence, permit and installation processes
- Experience with material supply chains, contract administration, subcontractor management, and risk management
- Proficiency with project management tools and Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Project or equivalent
- Bachelor's degree or advanced degree in Business, Engineering, Construction Management, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
- PMP certification
What We Do
Looking to make your move? Then you’ve come to the right place! We are the KION Group, and the world of intralogistics is our home. Our solutions ensure the smooth flow of materials and information in production plants, warehouses, and distribution centers in over 100 countries. We have around 41,000 employees who make a real difference, helping us to become who we are today: the biggest manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment in Europe, and one of the world’s leading warehouse automation providers. Successful? We are, but it’s all down to the motivated, highly trained, and multi-talented people that work for us. Would you like to be part of an international, diverse team? We can offer you interesting jobs and exciting career opportunities in an innovative, rapidly-growing, and forward-looking industry. With us, you benefit from numerous development opportunities in a globally active group, including the possibility of working at one of our locations abroad on a temporary basis. No matter which of our sites you work at, the KION values—integrity, collaboration, courage, and excellence—shape our individual action and our collaboration with colleagues, managers, customers, suppliers, and applicants both nationally and internationally. Who makes up the KION Group? With our international brands Linde Material Handling, STILL, and Baoli, as well as regional brands Fenwick and OM, we stand for exceptional technology and service expertise for forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment around the world. Dematic expands the portfolio with its automated material handling solutions for intralogistics processes in warehouses, production, and sales
