Global Engineering PMO Lead to Oatly

The Oatly Way

Oatly is a company built on the idea of change. Our mission is to help people upgrade their everyday lives and the health of the planet by making tasteful oat-based food products accessible to a wider audience in a world-class manner. It's why we come to work every day. Headquartered in Malmö, Sweden, the Oatly brand is available in more than 20 countries globally.

Why work with Oatly?

Are you keen to put your senior engineering project management skillset to work driving a shift to a more sustainable food system? Maybe even have some fun and develop your own skills along the way? Then you’re in the right place. Keep reading and see if it’s a match for both of us. We hope so!

Here’s what you would do:

As a Global Engineering PMO Lead, you will be driving the development and performance of the total Engineering project portfolio.
The role is reporting to Global Engineering PMO Manager and is placed in Landskrona.


As a Global Engineering PMO Lead you’ll mostly be focusing on:

Creating transparency across project portfolio to surface and resolve systemic issues, manage interdependencies across projects and portfolios, and provide guidance and structure for project managers.

Besides overseeing the Engineering project portfolio, the role is also responsible to develop and maintain the way of working for Engineering projects globally, together with regional Engineering PMO Directors.

More in detail, the role is resposible for:

- Ensuring the successful development of projects, on time and within budget, supporting the Engineering project portfolio management

- Driving Engineering PMO process and facilitate meetings, maintaining Engineering PMO templates and dashboards

- Securing transparency across project portfolio to surface and resolve systemic issues, communicating project scope, expectations, success criteria and progress against milestones to regional/local Engineering Directors and/or project managers and other stakeholders, on a regular basis

- With the support of the Oatly Project Management system; responsible for collecting, compiling, and reporting on project and portfolio progress dashboards - in accordance with corresponding meeting cadence

- Support escalation of issues with great impact on the business and/or other strategical functions outside Engineering scope

- Creating a collaborative atmosphere in the Engineering project portfolio structure

- Follow up on stage gate process and progress, training Engineering steerco members

- Be part of the last phase of the implementation and project roll-out of the Oatly Project Management system (Planview), acting as a Expert user to the Engineering organization.

This is the job today - but who knows what tomorrow
brings? Oatly is still growing and so being comfortable with change will really help you grow in the role.

Does this sound like you?

Here’s the kind of experience, qualities, and approach that
we’re looking for in the role:

Senior Engineering Project Management experience within Food/Pharma/other regulated industries, with understanding of critical path scheduling and supervision of it.

Experience of driving and delivering Engineering project portfolio

Experience of leading cross-functional and cross-company teams.

Strong communication and organizational skills.

Structured with demonstrated knowledge of how to measure success in quantitative as well as qualitative terms.

Self-motivated and willing to take initiatives to secure success.

Natural approach to stakeholder engagement, supporting and coaching in leading the way forward, gaining trust and providing clarity

Comfortable with ambiguity with a track record to secure the process of building something lasting from the ground up.

Experience with clear and concise communication of project metrics, utilizing MS Office, and project management tools such as MS Project and Planview

Fluency in English both verbally and in writing is a prerequisite.

Master of Science or equivalent.

We welcome people from all backgrounds that think sustainability, health and transparency are mega important. So, send in that CV, cross your fingers, and whisper a little prayer to the powers that be. It will be fun, or at least a good time. Promise!

We look forward to your application no later than February 3rd!



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