Senior Project Manager

Do you want to lead the modernization of industrial facilities within Lantmännen Unibake? Do you have experience of successfully managing large-scale industrial construction projects? Then you might be what we are looking for in the role as Senior Project Manager.

Lantmännen Unibake is Northern Europe's largest manufacturer of frozen and fresh bakery products for retail and food service markets, with customers all over the world. In this role, you will be given a unique opportunity to be part of something all the way from the drawing board to implementation and production.

This is what you will do

As a Senior Project Manager at Lantmännen Unibake, your primary responsibilities will be to drive pre-studies and implementation of large-scale investment projects, including the establishment of both greenfield and brownfield projects. Your role involves complete project management activities, from the pre-study phase to handover to the operations organization.

This involves defining the scope of work and deliverables, as well as ensuring the availability of necessary resources for project completion. You will be in charge of coordinating project engineering activities associated with CAPEX investments for new facilities, production lines, and asset acquisitions. This role involves budgetary responsibility and effectively managing time, costs, and project scope to achieve the project objectives. As part of your responsibilities, you will also lead contractual negotiations.

A crucial aspect of your role will be to coordinate and align efforts across the entire project, between both the global and local organizations (e.g. commercial, finance, operations), as well as subcontractors such as key machinery providers.

The position is organized in the Swedish organization and primarily based in the Örebro site, although it will require travel to other sites within Unibake, and might also open up opportunities for global projects. You report to Operations Director at Unibake Sweden and Operations Development Director at Unibake International.
This is what you need to succeed:

You have:

- A relevant academic degree, preferably in engineering.
- Several years of experience from international large-scale industrial construction projects, preferably within the food industry.
- Proven record in managing cross functional business projects with high performance teams.
- Experience with contractual negotiations.
- Well developed competencies in planning, implementing and leading change initiatives.
- Strong communication skills in English, both written and spoken.

You are:

- A team player and skilled at building relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
- Communicative and good at keeping yourself and others focused and motivated to achieve set goals
- Analytical and capable of putting strategy into structure and structure into action

You share our values - Openness, Holistic view, Drive - and our promise of taking responsibility from Field to Fork.

What we offer to you

We are a large international group with diverse activities throughout the entire grain value chain –from the very sprout in the field to the food on our tables. With a wide range of businesses within food, agriculture, machinery, bioenergy and real estate, we offer career opportunities in every direction across industries, countries, companies and areas of expertise.



Sounds interesting?

We hope so! The screening process is ongoing, but the process will have pause due to vacations during 15/7-6/8. The recruitment process will include interviews, psychometric tests and the final candidate will go through a background check through our external supplier ToFindOut.

If you have any questions regarding the position or the recruitment process, please contact Linn Forsberg Talent Acquisition Specialist at linn.forsberg@lantmannen.com.

We look forward to your application!

Lantmännen Unibake is a leading global bakery company within the Lantmännen Group. With expertise in bakery products for food service and retail, we serve consumers around the clock and across the world every day. The aim is to make bread and pastry a profitable business for our customers through tasty, high-quality products and innovative solutions and based on a sustainable mind-set and excellent food safety standards. Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Lantmännen Unibake operates modern bakeries around the world and has sales in more than 60 countries. The brand portfolio comprises a range of well-established B2B and BtC brands e.g. Schulstad Bakery Solutions, Schulstad, Bonjour, Vaasan, Pastridor and Hatting. Lantmännen Unibake has a turnover of EUR 1.1 billion and employs more than 6,000 people in 20+ countries. Appetite for more? Visit us at www.lantmannen-unibake.com