Project Manager- Industry Application deadline: As soon as possible Workplace: Hybrid Position Job Location: Leighton Buzzard, Central Bedfordshire, United Kingdom Contract Type: Full-Time Employment Type: Regular **Are you a strategic thinker who likes to plan and execute complex projects in water solutions?** Grundfos is looking for a talented Project Manager to join our Industry project delivery team in the UK. As our new Project Manager, you will spearhead the management of complex European Industry projects, ensuring utmost customer satisfaction and profitable business operations. At Grundfos, our team of innovative professionals strive to create sustainable solutions that make a difference in the world. In this role, your primary goal will be to streamline and optimize project delivery from order fulfilment to after-sales, meeting time, cost, quality, and customer expectations. **What is the job about?** Responsibilities • Manage high-complexity projects utilizing the agreed systems and project execution processes, acting as a project manager for those projects assigned to you • Prepare, schedule, coordinate, and monitor all aspects of the project, maximizing profitable sales through the delivery of projects to the satisfaction of customers • Monitor compliance to contract, applicable codes, practices, QA/QC policies, performance standards, Health & Safety, and specifications to ensure project delivery adheres to Grundfos’ project execution processes • Act as the main point of contact with the customer for the project and handle customer issues working closely with other departments • Provide technical solutions and documentation dossiers to customers as the main technical responsible for the project in front of the customer when required by the project • Go to the site and manage sub-suppliers and sub-contractors with supply agreements to ensure alignment of service levels for projects to be delivered on time, cost, and quality • Support the quotation and proposal team to evaluate projects properly in the scope, time, cost, risks, and quality • Report project finance and status, compiling closing project and lessons learned documentation in line with agreed format and standards • Carry out logistics activities in the workshop to ensure timely and accurate delivery to site when required • Work with the Finance/Credit Control Team to secure on-time payment This role will be home-based with the expectation that you will visit the Leighton Buzzard office regularly and attend customer sites when required. Core working hours are 08:30-17:00 Monday to Friday. **Competencies:** To be a successful applicant, we would like you to have: • Plenty of proven experience in delivering demanding projects within a technically complex and dynamic environment on time, cost, and quality • Excellent business and technical experience, with a strong talent for enabling productive communication between groups • Knowledge of pumps, dosing, and disinfection systems, with experience in contract management • Understanding of competencies needed in project management such as technical expertise, finance, logistics, contracts, quality, Health & Safety, ISO norms, export regulations, etc. • Positive and resilient personality with great people skills and highly empathic • Excellent negotiation and communication skills both verbally and in writing • Great stakeholder management skills in working across borders and on all levels • Excellent analytical skills • Ability to work in a demanding and ever-changing environment and meet time deadlines efficiently • Hands-on experience using tools such as CRM/SAP PS/BW, Office package, project management tools, CAD knowledge, etc. • Travel will be required in this role **What do we offer you?** • Company car • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays • Annual incentive bonus • Flexible benefits scheme • Flexible working hours • Trusting, collaborative, and friendly culture with an international environment that values work-life balance • Access to internal training and great opportunities for individual development **Why Grundfos?** At Grundfos, we constantly dare to do things that others cannot or dare not do. Our skills require us to pioneer solutions to the world’s water and climate challenges and improve the quality of life for people. We believe that innovation is not only a business opportunity but also an obligation. We focus on the impact we make rather than short-term profit. By becoming part of our united and powerful team, you can drive change, irrespective of your role. **About Grundfos** Grundfos is one of the world’s leading water technology companies with more than 19.000 employees in 60+ countries all over the world. Our skills commit us to pioneering solutions to the world’s water and climate challenges and improve the quality of life for people. We dare to do things that others cannot or dare not do, as we believe innovation is not only a business opportunity, but an obligation. And what really matters to us is not short term profit, but the impact we make. By becoming part of our united powerful team, you too can drive this change no matter your role. **An inclusive team** We believe that the key to a work environment, where employees thrive and grow, is our ability to celebrate and value our differences in background, experiences and perspectives. In our recruitment process we welcome all professional people without consideration of age, colour, gender identity, national origin, physical or mental disability, ethnicity or religion.