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Join our dynamic team as a Project Manager for New Product Introduction, where you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth production and supply chain operations for FOSS' latest analytical solutions in the food industry. Collaborating closely with various teams within FOSS, you'll bridge the gap between development and operations to facilitate successful product launches and drive continuous improvement initiatives
The job
As a member of the New Product Introduction (NPI) team within the Production and Supply Chain (P&SC) department, you'll represent P&SC in strategic product development projects. Your responsibilities encompass overseeing manufacturing, quality control, warehouse, logistics, and sourcing & purchasing to ensure timely deliveries and high-quality outcomes.
You'll engage in the entire product lifecycle from conception to post-launch production refinement, setting ambitious goals to enhance FOSS' product development and production processes. Emphasizing a culture of collaboration and openness, you'll work closely with stakeholders across departments. We will start by welcoming you to our office in Hillerød, but at the end of 2025 we will move our production facilities to Frederikssund and the position will be based there, together with the rest of the team.
Primary tasks
The New Product Introduction team is responsible for delivering well-established and robust assembly production processes to ensure successful product introduction and launches and this forms the largest part within your responsibility. As a result, direct collaboration with subject matter experts and stream leads within P&SC and R&D is a large part of your daily work, however you’ll also work closely with stakeholders and team members a from Service and Launch throughout the projects. Your main tasks will be to:
- Coordinate projects activities within P&SC together with other team members
- Maintain project oversight, set team direction, and ensure timely delivery of project outcomes
- Develop transparent project plans and communicate these effectively to stakeholders
- Improve NPI project management processes to succeed in current and future projects
- Lead and participate in NPI, P&SC and cross-functional activities to improve ways of working, systems, tools and products
Qualifications
We imagine you bring the following qualifications:
- An academic degree within engineering or production but another academic background may also be relevant. Interest in and ability to understand technical problems quickly is required
- Minimum one year of experience working with project management in cross-functional projects, preferably related to production or development activities
- Strong leadership skills and ability to navigate elegantly between pragmatism, idealism, diplomacy and persistency
- Excellent communication skills
- Fluency in English as this is our corporate language
- Strong understanding of LEAN principles is an advantage
We are looking for candidates who are strong team players and set ambitious goals and inspire their colleagues to achieve them. You thrive in a technical environment and enjoy working periodically under time- and organizational pressure.
We offer
Reporting to the Director of Production Support, you will be part of a strong team of highly skilled and very engaged colleagues.
As Project Manager in NPI you will be directly involved in both technical and process related projects with the opportunity to influence the position along the way, and with great development opportunities, both personally and professionally.
Your learning curve will be steep, and you will have the opportunity to gain responsibility.
Despite our base in Denmark, FOSS has a global mindset and you will experience that FOSS is a highly international environment with +1500 colleagues around the world
Ready to join our team?
FOSS is a family-owned company, and we are proud of our high employee and customer satisfaction along with our open culture and great career opportunities. If you are ready to join our team, send your application by using the link below. We conduct interviews on an ongoing basis. Therefore, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. For further information, please contact Tom Carlsen, Director, P&SC New Product Introduction and Production Support at tca@foss.dk.
FOSS is committed to maintaining an inclusive and diverse culture. You can help us sustain an unbiased recruitment process by not including photo and age in your application. FOSS
Today, more than 8 billion people around the world are dependent on nutritional food. Tons of food being produced in a million different ways and under varying conditions, creating challenges all the way from field to fork. One of them, obviously, being the effects it has on climate change. FOSS helps the world’s 100 biggest food companies and more than 40,000 others around the world navigate exactly that with intelligent, data-driven and innovative analytical solutions. We are making sustainability a better business and we’re doing so as global market leader in our field – improving food quality, minimizing food waste, ensuring food safety, and securing fair payment. Join a pioneering and innovative company in the food and agriculture industry. A company on a mission, with offices all around the world and 1,700 talented colleagues from more than 32 different countries.
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