Senior Project Manager to KeyPlants

Exciting opportunity at KeyPlants!

Hays Life Science continues to support further growth of KeyPlants organization, and is now recruiting Senior Project Managers for an exciting opportunity to work in a very experienced team with solutions that make a difference. KeyPlants is located in Stockholm City and is a world leading provider of life science facilities.

About KeyPlants
The company, founded in 2010, has been pioneers bringing the modular facility concept to the pharmaceutical industry. The company is world-leading in modular "off-site construction". At KeyPlants, you will work with skilled engineers providing services to a global customer base, ranging from emerging biotech to big pharma (such as Merck, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, etc.). KeyPlants are in the forefront when it comes to how facility engineering projects are delivered, with shorter and more predictable project time. Customers turn to KeyPlants thanks to their expertise and long experience in delivering pharmaceutical facilities worldwide. Read more at keyplants.com

Your new role
As project manager you are the heart and soul of the customers project, and the position comes with responsibilities, but also the possibility to make a difference with your leadership and skills.

As project manager you will be responsible for leading delivery projects through the complete project cycle, including design, installation, and operational launch, including commissioning and qualification at customer site. You will have a competent and goal-oriented organization with you, that is characterized by a unique will to cooperate and reach set goals together as a team. Projects may be anywhere, but focus is on North America and Europe, with a strong home base market in Sweden.

The projects you lead may vary in size and can reach a billion SEK and hundreds of project members, although smaller projects are more common. The projects are high in technical complexity. The organization delivers turnkey pharma factories and facilities to the customers, striving to be competitive with short delivery times from design to complete installation.

The company culture is deeply rooted, with an ambition to create "Solutions that make a difference", and living by the key values of being pioneers, reliable and solution oriented. Working as a team, both internally and with customers and partners, is essential!

What you'll need to succeed
We believe that you are a person that enjoys working with complex projects to large, international customers without necessarily having to be part of a large organization.
You have:

* A master's or bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent work experience
* Several years' experience from construction and facility engineering projects, ideally both from international and domestic projects
* Leadership experience
* Good negotiation skills
* Ideally also experience of:
* working with GMP
* construction and facility engineering projects for the pharma/biotech, nuclear, chemistry or food industries
* Preferably, a certification within project management, e.g. Prince2, IPMA, PMI.

You are:

* Proactive
* Strategically thinking, with a business sense and ability to see the full picture
* A decision-maker - daring to make decisions together with the organization
* Motivating others, and enable good cooperation
* Confident as a leader
* Driven, with a strong and forward-facing leadership style and an entrepreneurial mindset
* Goal-oriented
* Lacking prestige
* An excellent communicator (in English and preferably Swedish)

What you get

* Possibility to make a difference in the world by creating "Solutions that make a difference"
* An opportunity to work in a very experienced team at a world leading provider of life science facilities
* A solid, profitable and fast growing company with well rooted key values and a project organizational structure, where you can make a difference and contribute to the success of the company.
* A chance to be operational project lead for large, complex and exciting projects, with overall responsibiliy and authority to drive the project from A to Z.
* A mix of international and domestic customers and project.
* A strong commercial connection, and a possibility to meet the end-customer.
* Very good opportunities to grow and develop within the role.

What to do next
In this recruitment KeyPlants is partnering with Hays. If you are interested in the role, please submit your application with an updated CV and personal letter in the same document. For specific questions on the role, please contact Cecilia Larzon, cecilia.larzon@hays.com, or Linus Norrbom, linus.norrbom@hays.com. Applications will be processed as they come, so don't hesitate to submit your application today. Application deadline: 2021-12-30.