Project Manager - New products (Temporary)

Since selling our first timepiece in 2011, Daniel Wellington has evolved into a global phenomenon that has disrupted an entire industry. We are an exciting, vibrant, and innovative brand that challenges old conventions - continuously striving to enrich our customers' style through timeless pieces.⌚️

Working here, you are a part of an inclusive and diverse workplace, where we want you to be yourself. We give you trust, ownership, and flexibility in your work, and the opportunity to make an impact, directly contributing to our success. You will spend your days with collaborative, open, positive, and highly skilled people. You will learn new things, grow, and have a great time while doing so.

Daniel Wellington is on an exciting journey with new ways of working with product development. We are now looking for a temporary Project Manager - New Products for our Operations department in Stockholm, to cover during a maternity leave for around 12 months. Although it's a temporary role, we see it as a perfect opportunity for the one looking for a challenge where you lead and develop our processes and lift us to the next level.

THE TASKS YOU WILL OWN 

As our Project Manager for New Products, you will be responsible for managing the end-to-end activities for new global product launches. The plan for 2024 is set and you will identify milestones, collaborate with stakeholders across the whole organization, and lead the project teams to achieve successful product launches.

- Manage projects with timelines, milestones, resources, risks, roles and responsibilities, and day-to-day activities.

- Maintain and communicate project status and ensure that all projects are delivered on time.

- Lead and influence continuous project team meetings and ensure resource availability and allocation.

- Proactively manage potential issues and lead ad-hoc cross-functional meetings for issue resolution.

- Monitor product readiness and escalate risks with timeline.

- Conduct competitor research and analysis.

- Review our product development process and identify improvement opportunities. 

WHO YOU ARE 

- BSc or MSc degree in Engineering/Economics or another relevant field

- A minimum of 3 years experience in project management in a global organization

- An ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced changing environment and to build strong relationships across the business

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Swedish and English

- Experience in project management within industries such as fashion, retail, and e-commerce is considered a plus

To further succeed, we believe you know how to build a strong network and communicate in a positive way. Taking full ownership and being proactive in identifying challenges, and approaching them with a “can-do” and “nothing is impossible” attitude - is you!

THIS IS #LIFEATDW

Are you still here? Amazing! 🙌 We aim to be transparent, and we want to give you a glimpse of what it is like working here. If you want to know what our people replied when we asked them why they like working here, you can visit our career site - (https://careers.danielwellington.com/pages/our-company-culture)

ABOUT THE PROCESS

This process will house recruitment tests as a first step and a case assignment in a later stage to help us break human biases as we believe in giving everyone an equal opportunity. Visit our career site Recruitment at DW. (https://careers.danielwellington.com/pages/recruitment-at-dw) Be yourself and hope to meet you in the process!