Digital & Process Performance, Project Manager (IT Operations)

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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 drives Huhtamaki wide business transformation initiatives with strategic goals.

We are now looking for a DPP, Project Manager to work in our Transformation Management Office focusing on technical business application or infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities And Key Activities

• Have a project leadership role: ensure that our IT Operation and Business Platforms related projects (e.g. application or system upgrades, consolidations, migrations, new functionality implementations etc.) are run methodically, and all the stakeholders know where we are on the development roadmap
• Project management (e.g. roadmaps, milestones, resourcing etc.) in versatile DPP projects in a global matrix across business sections
• Collaboration with our delivery partners as they are also playing an important role in developing and maintaining the solutions that we offer
• 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 technical knowledge required business application and infrastructure projects, but we are looking for an individual who is interested also in other data project domains and can adapt to our project needs on this interesting transformation journey.

Requirements For The Role

• Proven experience in project management, including planning, organizing, and executing data-related projects. The ability to define project scope, timelines, and resource allocation, and effectively manage project risks and issues. Having relevant project management certificates like PMP, PgMP, IPMA etc. is very beneficial.
• Proficiency and experience in working with projects & integrations related to cloud technologies, strong understanding of cybersecurity principles including data encryption and network security
• Excellent communication skills to interact with technical teams, stakeholders, and business users. The ability to lead and inspire cross-functional teams to achieve project goals and foster a collaborative working environment.
• Basic data analysis skills to review project metrics and data-related KPIs. The ability to use data insights for decision-making and project performance evaluation.
• Experience in working with external vendors or service providers for specific project requirements. The ability to coordinate with vendors and ensure deliverables meet project expectations.
• Strong documentation skills to maintain project plans, progress reports, and project documentation. The ability to create concise and clear project status updates for stakeholders.
• The capability to negotiate with stakeholders and resolve conflicts that may arise during the project
• Understanding and utilizing lean and agile principles would is going to be very beneficial on our road towards data savvy Huhtamaki.
• Fluency in English (written and spoken), other languages are seen as a plus
• Master’s degree from a relevant field
  
  

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 28th 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!