NPDI Project Manager, Jeld-Wen

NPDI Project Manager

Jeld-Wen · Publicerad 17 dec 2020

Company description:

ABOUT JELD-WEN

Founded in 1960, Jeld-Wen is one of the world's largest door and window manufacturers, with more than 22,000 employees operating in 25 countries globally. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, JELD-WEN designs, produces and distributes an extensive range of interior and exterior doors, wood, vinyl and aluminium windows and related products for use in the new construction and repair and remodelling of residential homes and non-residential buildings.

Our products and services afford us the opportunity to enter peoples' workplaces, homes and daily lives. With this privilege comes great responsibility to ensure that the products we deliver are reliable and enrich the places and lives that they touch. We bring beauty and security to the spaces that touch our lives.

Job description:

Join one of the world's leading suppliers of windows and doors in a key role as NPDI Project Manager at one of our locations in either Åstorp or Forserum, Sweden or Tallinn, Estonia. You will be part of our Time-to-Market team in Northern Europe, playing a vital part in practising the project management best practices.

Your role

As NPDI Project Manager, you will be responsible for the successful initiation, planning and execution of product development implementation projects within the Northern European region at JELD-WEN. Reporting directly to the Head of Time-to-Market for Northern Europe, the scope of the role is to successfully secure professional implementation of product-related projects following the project management best practices. This entails fulfilling the expectations from project objectives, costs and timeframe. You will be part of our Projects Portfolio Management team, where you will drive the continuous improvement of JELD-WEN's Tollgate processes and the efficiency in project execution in time to market. To succeed in this role, you are expected to define project objectives, costs, targets and timeframe with the use of project management best practices together with the principles of change management. You must thrive with the responsibility of facilitating and driving results within a fast-changing and demand-driven environment.

Your responsibilities

Lead the project, process and project team with a focus on safety, quality, delivery, cost and innovation (SQDCI)
Drive continuous improvements in SQDCI in projects and project management
Project Manager for compliance-related projects, new product implementation projects, product changes and optimization projects
Project management from initiation until successful closure, including reporting and optimized prioritization regarding costs and resources
Work collaboratively with the time-to-market team within Northern Europe in delivering continuous improvement
Set up a project, project KPI's and work with a project team to lead the decision-making processes
In close collaboration with the project team, identify small and larger opportunities inside and outside the project to further improve JELD-WEN's market position.
Following the JELD-WEN purpose and values to build businesses ethically and safely as well as ensuring adherence with all compliance standards

Required profile:

Your skills and experiences

Several years of experience from a similar project management role
Formalized project management education or the equivalent experience
Experience in how to carry change management through the projects
Ability to adapt the best project management approach based on need
Sound business and process understanding and/or fast learner
Solid experience with the project management best practices
Excellent PDCA(Plan-Do-Check-Act) closing skills
Ability to motivate team members and create a winning team attitude
A consistent and proactive approach towards assigned projects and tasks
Possess a 'can-do' attitude and strong analytical skills
Good communication skills and well-accustomed to working with Microsoft Teams or similar digital communication tools.
Fluency in spoken and written English is a prerequisite for this role, fluency in a Scandinavian language would be an advantage

What we offer:

Good reason to join

We act with integrity, invest in people, inspire through innovation, deliver on our promises and improve every day. We are seeking talented individuals who share this purpose and values and want to excel in their field of expertise. We offer excellent benefits, a collaborative environment in which to apply your talent and a dynamic and growing company, with exceptional career progression opportunities.

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Om företaget

ABOUT JELD-WEN

Founded in 1960, Jeld-Wen is one of the world's largest door and window manufacturers, with more than 22,000 employees operating in 25 countries globally. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, JELD-WEN designs, produces and distributes an extensive range of interior and exterior doors, wood, vinyl and aluminium windows and related products for use in the new construction and repair and remodelling of residential homes and non-residential buildings.

Our products and services afford us the opportunity to enter peoples' workplaces, homes and daily lives. With this privilege comes great responsibility to ensure that the products we deliver are reliable and enrich the places and lives that they touch. We bring beauty and security to the spaces that touch our lives.

+ Läs mer om företaget