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Role Overview: Do you like to roll up your sleeves and own your results? Are you a strong communicator who builds and leads strong multi-functional teams through the full lifecycle of a capital project? We are seeking an experienced Project Manager with a strong background in the chemical industry to lead and oversee complex capital projects across the IMEA region. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with exceptional stakeholder management skills who can drive not only capital projects, but also capital programs. This role requires regular travel to other sites within India and the IMEA region. Key responsibilities: Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary point of contact for project-related communication. Ensures the alignment between business objectives and project execution, the availability of information, and the smooth collaboration between workstreams. Facilitate stakeholder meetings, such as Sponsor Reviews & Steering Committees with Senior level managers providing transparent updates on project progress, risks, and decision needs. Lifecyle management of complex capital projects: Develop and manage detailed project plans, schedules, budgets, and resource allocation strategies to meet objectives. Identify and mitigate risks, ensuring compliance with industry regulations, safety standards, and corporate policies. Guide project team through deliverables with close understanding of the nature of capital investment projects and their technical aspects. Leadership & Talent Development Directly manage dedicated project team members as line manager and all related duties, including project task support if needed, co-creating career development plans, and administrative tasks. Mentor and develop all project team members, fostering a high-performing and knowledge sharing culture through emphasizing: collaboration, entrepreneurship, and accountability. Support organizational capability-building by implementing best practices in project and program management. Key skills and competencies: Project Management: Ability to apply industry best practices to lead a program or project through scope definition and adherence, dependency identification and management, risk and issue management, stakeholder analysis, and critical path mapping. Stakeholder Management: Excellent ability to prepare and give presentations to senior stakeholders and team members to ensure alignment, transparent raising of risks and issues, and timely decision making. Talent and skills development: Intermediate knowledge to apply situational leadership, develop team members to successfully deliver the project, and co-develop career plans. Problem solving: Excellent proficiency in identifying problems, deriving and evaluating possible solutions, getting alignment on path forward, and guiding teams through the agreed upon change. Risk & Compliance Management: Strong understanding of industry regulations, safety standards, and risk mitigation strategies. Collaboration: Exceptional ability to collaborate across diverse teams virtually and in-person. Data analysis: Strong analytical skills to interpret technical and financial metrics, identify trends, and drive data-informed decision-making. Beneficial Certifications: 15+ years Capital Project Management experience with at least 5 years working with large & complex Capital projects in an international environment in the chemical industry Degree in Chemical Engineering Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Program Management Professional (PgMP) Certification Certified associate in project management (CAPM) PRINCE2 Certification Engineering-related certifications specific to the chemical industry Why this role? This position offers the opportunity to lead team members through the full capital program lifecycle in a dynamic and diverse region. You will play a pivotal role in developing the program’s deliverables and driving progress all while working alongside a team committed to fun and excellence. Show more Show less
