Job Description:
We are seeking a skilled and experienced Global Project Manager to oversee and lead cross-functional projects across multiple regions. The ideal candidate will manage global initiatives, ensuring timely delivery, budget adherence, and high-quality results. You will collaborate with international teams, manage stakeholders, and drive strategic objectives by interacting daily with Global Operations, Product Managers, Quality, R&D, Supply Chain and Sourcing team.
This position plays an important role as it acts as an enabler for the global Filler Metal and raw material Sourcing team, focusing on regional and Global projects to ensure adequate priced raw materials, allowing ESAB to maintain and strengthen its strong market position. This position will also coordinate, lead, and report on all cost reduction and risk management projects requiring support from the previously named teams.
Given the technical nature of the projects, this position requires a strong technical background in engineering/chemistry, deep insight into the ESAB organization, and quickly understands and utilizes new concepts and processes.
The Global Project Manager guides the Filler Metal commodity managers for the chemicals and minerals, specialty alloys, and steel categories, and assists in implementing the global Sourcing strategies in a highly organized, wide-view and results-driven behavior.
Duties & Responsibilities
The Global Project Manager’s duties include:
- Lead and manage global / regional projects from initiation to completion, ensuring alignment with company goals
- Project management for cost reduction and risk mitigation projects with cross-functional teams across different time zones and cultures.
- Communicate project progress to stakeholders, providing regular reports and updates, ensuring resource availability and allocation, supervision of business cases and prioritization of projects, development of detailed project plans with timelines for key milestones, risk management, and reporting and escalation as needed.
- Streamlining the optimization of project management tools and providing training for key stakeholders as required.
- Foster collaboration and manage effective communication across global teams.
- Maintaining and continuously improving procedures together with the Global Sourcing team and all interfacing teams at ESAB.
- Developing and maintaining market intelligence data such as pricing, indices, supplier data, including analysis.
- Ensure compliance with local regulations and company policies.
- Drive continuous improvement by analyzing project outcomes and identifying opportunities for process enhancement.
Qualifications
Education & Experience Requirements
- B.Sc. in Chemical or Metallurgical Engineering (or comparable sciences) required.
- Required min 5 years’ experience in interdisciplinary, project-based environments in manufacturing-related industries.
- Proven track record of leading complex, cross-border projects.
Main Skills Requirements
- Fluent English
- Excellent communication and leadership (project management) skills.
- Excellent resource management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to create and maintain internal platforms for increased efficiency.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office software.
Mobility & Travel Requirements
- Hybrid position (has to come to the office regularly), ability to travel as needed.
