Senior Project Manager

Purpose

Senior Project Manager is accountable for safe, reliable, high quality and profitable execution of the delivery projects within his/her portfolio, leading to customer satisfaction and fulfilment of KONE business objectives. Senior Project Manager proactively manages portfolio performance in terms of progress against schedule, planning accuracy, profitability, productivity, safety and quality performance, using KPI’s and data, and setting targets and actions for his/her Delivery Operations team. Senior Project Manager ensures that installation methods and tools, as well as KONE Way and Frontline operations management practices are followed. Senior Project Manager drives continual improvement efforts and waste elimination by proactively identifying areas of improvement, standardizing ways of working. Senior Project Manager leads and coaches his/her regional Delivery Operations team, ensuring competence and optimized allocation of the resources.

Responsibilities and Key Activities

Safety and Quality

• Proactively drives outstanding performance in Safety and Quality in Delivery Operations
• Responsible for driving a culture of Safety and Quality throughout the organization

Customers

• Establishes and promotes service-minded culture and outside-in thinking in Delivery Operations
• Captures and feeds Voice of Customer throughout Delivery Operations
• Manages customer disputes and escalations, and tracks NPI and transactional survey feedback

Leadership and people development

• Leads, evaluates, and develops his/her operations team and professionals to achieve the established safety, quality, profitability, productivity, and customer satisfaction goals.
• Identifies and address competence development needs for project management and installation.
• Accountable for his/her Delivery Operations team’s adherence to KONE Way and standard ways of working requirements
• Sets individual targets and actions together with his/her team members using data and KPI’s to achieve the set objectives, as well as to identify waste, find root causes, and continually improve standard ways of working
• Regularly performs Gemba walks on site and/or process audits to understand how Delivery
• Operations happen on site level, assesses deviations from standard ways of working (installation methods, safety policies and KONE Way/Frontline processes), and allocates improvement opportunities to the team members

Installation

• Drives efficient, safe, and high-quality installation operations in line with regulatory and KONE methods, requirements, and site management practices
• Responsible for Installation capacity planning
• Accountable for optimized resource utilization (people and tools)

Project management

• Ensures that KONE adds value to customers’ projects with seamless and reliable project delivery and proactive communication
• Drives proactive, profitable, reliable, and efficient project management practices in line with KONE methods
• Ensures accuracy of schedule, revenue, and cost planning as per FL policy
• Accountable that projects in his/her portfolio deliver customer scope, as well as proactively identifies and executes value-added services, change order opportunities and cost claims (to customers, other trades as well as KONE suppliers and subcontractors)
• Leads and develops required project management competences

Delivery Operations management

• Organizes effective huddles with Installation Supervisors to ensure execution of projects according to standard ways of working and proactive elimination of roadblocks to ensure uninterrupted flow
• Organizes and operates regular portfolio and operational reviews (traction control) to manage project and installation performance
• Organizes regular reviews of completed projects to analyze root causes for outliers (positive or negative), and to ensure lessons learnt; coaches his/her team to do so in their own projects
• Maintains and communicates order book status, resource needs and installation capacity as part of the Sales and Operations planning process
• Ensures that both KONE and subcontracted installers are trained, certified, competent and capable to carry out their work and that actions are taken to achieve it
• Is responsible for making sure that safety and quality audits are carried out in accordance with frontline requirements and that actions are raised and appropriately closed by his/her team

Business performance

• Accountable for financial and customer performance of projects within his/her portfolio and for the accuracy of the orderbook and forecast of his/her portfolio · Actively monitors and reports project and installation performance, ensures action on deviations
• Ensure effective deployment and benefit realization of KONE Way and local initiatives
• Provide input and feedback about changes needed to KONE Way

Continual Improvement

• Proactively drives and coaches his/her team members to identify waste, find root causes, and implement improvements
• Organizes regular retrospectives with his/her team to reflect on ways of working and identify improvements
• Responsible to create pull for development based on local needs
• Collaborates with Sales, CSE and Service to improve and standardize ways of working
• Identifies, consolidates, and shares the opportunities for growth, productivity, profitability and process efficiency across the region and Frontline
• Promotes and rewards success stories and best practices of Lean improvements and DMAIC projects

Professional Requirements

• Safety and quality management
• Revenue recognition and relevant financial understanding
• Customer relationship management
• Installation portfolio management
• Project management
• Forecasting and capacity planning
• Managing performance
• Basic knowledge of installation methods
• Understanding of relevant laws, standards, norms and other requirements
• General contractual understanding
• Basic construction industry and building system knowledge
• Change management, coaching and training skills
• Subcontractor management
• Lean fundamentals
• Lean thinking and continual improvement competence

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

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