Senior Project Manager

KION

Job Location:

Viborg - Denmark

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 19 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Senior Project Manager plays the role of CEO of the projectfully accountable for the success quality and strategic impact of some of our most complex and high value automation programmes. This is a position for someone who thrives in complexity influences without authority and consistently delivers excellence from concept to completion.

As a Senior Project Manager you will lead large scale technically sophisticated automation projects across the Nordics region. You will be the strategic driver of project success ensuring alignment between customer expectations contractual commitments and organisational goals. You will operate as a trusted partner to our clients building long term credibility based relationships that underpin successful delivery.

Although this role has no direct line management responsibilities you will lead through influenceguiding cross functional team and shaping best practices within the execution of the projects to ensure every project is delivered on time within budget and to the highest quality standards.

We offer:

Career Development
Competitive Compensation and Benefits
Pay Transparency
Global Opportunities

Learn More Here: and Qualifications:

Project Leadership & Integration

Lead the initiation planning and execution of complex strategic automation projects in the Nordics.
Define project scope objectives and deliverables aligned with organisational strategy.
Develop robust project governance business cases and project charters to secure stakeholder alignment.
Build integrated project plans using advanced project management tools and methodologies.

Schedule & Resource Management

Lead and motivate highperforming project teams fostering a culture of collaboration and accountability.
Develop resource plans to ensure optimal utilisation across multiple concurrent projects.
Monitor progress manage critical paths and implement corrective actions to protect schedule and budget.
Ensure seamless integration of interdependent tasks and activities.

Stakeholder & Communication Management

Build strong trustbased relationships with customers and internal stakeholders.
Develop communication plans that ensure clarity transparency and proactive engagement.
Provide regular project updates highlighting progress risks and key decisions.
Facilitate project meetings and act as a strategic advisor throughout the project lifecycle.

Contract & Vendor Management

Support negotiation of complex vendor and supplier contracts.
Manage vendor performance and ensure compliance with contractual obligations.
Oversee change orders contract modifications and documentation processes.

Financial & Risk Management

Develop and manage detailed project budgets ensuring financial discipline and value delivery.
Track costs analyse variances and implement corrective actions.
Identify assess and mitigate project risks escalating critical issues when necessary.
Lead structured problemsolving efforts to maintain project momentum.

Experience & Qualifications

810 years of progressive project management experience.
Proven success delivering largescale complex crossfunctional projects with strategic impact.
Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence without authority.
Experience managing budgets risks contracts and vendor relationships.
Deep understanding of project management methodologies.
PMP certification highly desirable.
Willingness and ability to travel extensively (up to 80% annually) to customer sites and meetings in the region.

What Were Looking For:

A true project leadersomeone who takes ownership inspires confidence and consistently delivers. Youll excel in this role if you are:
A strategic thinker with strong commercial and customer instincts.
A confident communicator who builds trust quickly.
A resilient leader who thrives in ambiguity and complexity.
A champion of continuous improvement and delivery excellence.

Dematic is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. Dematic prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race religion or belief age sex national or ethnic origin disability status sexual orientation gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Apply Now

About Company

KION

We are a leading supplier of forklifts and warehouse equipment as well as automation technology and software solutions for the optimization of supply chains.

View Profile View Profile

AI AutoApply

Apply to 100+ jobs with one click