Project Manager - Indirect Materials

KONE's Global Spares Supply (GSS) supports KONE service business success globally with digital and physical channels for all the material-related needs. We are dedicated for promoting our product and services to our customers and responsible for meeting the growth goals of a GSS in terms of the sale of our products and use of our services. We are around 280 professionals in the fields of solution offering (products and digital services) and supply chains as well business analytics, marketing and sales support.

Are you motivated to take a lead role in driving the growing service material markets in our large-scale maintenance business, products and services? Are you passionate about building competitive offering solutions to meet customer requirements? If you are, then read more about the opportunity to join KONE as Project Manager Indirect Materials at Global Spares Supply team!

We are seeking to hire a new project manager to our offering team dedicated to lead maintenance material solutions and developments to deliver high value to customers and business stakeholders. You will drive the development, implementation and follow-up of our spare part offering of indirect materials to improve our service material offering availability. Project Manager Indirect Materials reports to GSS Offering manager and our main location is KONE campus in Chennai, India.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for indirect material offering development projects and management
• Responsible for managing the product lifecycle, including onboarding, maintenance, EOL, and replacements
• Manage and collaborate with stakeholders on technical solutions
• Responsible for product and solution development by analyzing internal demand, market trends, and supplier capabilities to ensure alignment with operational and strategic needs
• Be an active part in the Offering team, pushing the limits and supporting the future vision
• Engage and cocreate solutions with the customer feedback and business insights to develop competitive products
• Responsible for product compliance and associated governance and reporting
• Responsible for ensuring product compliance and liability across the lifecycle, while supporting pricing strategies through cost analysis, benchmarking, and supplier negotiations

To be successful in this role you should have:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in relevant field or equivalent experience
• Solid knowledge of project management and offering development
• 10-12 years of relevant overall experience
  • minimum of 5 year of tools life cycle management
  • Two or more years’ experience with project management and development
  • leading
  • Two or more years’ experience with elevator system and component knowledge practical application knowledge of elevator maintenance engineering solutions
  • Two or more years’ experience with project team
• Advanced communication and presentation skills in English language
• Preferred background includes experience in international and cross-functional collaboration
• Comfortable working in a virtual and cross-functional global team environment
• Willingness to travel

We offer

As our new Project Manager Indirect Materials, you’ll get a role in an international working environment with the chance to grow along with your responsibilities. You’ll have a great opportunity to play your part in international growth and to work in an ambitious and committed global team of smart people. You’ll be working in a respectful and professional, yet easy-going atmosphere where individual thinking is encouraged.

As KONE is a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, this is a key role and a great opportunity to build the future cities through improving how people live, work and play in the cities and to help us continue innovating and making magic happen also in the future.

You will be working with highly dynamic teams significantly investing time and effort on how we develop services and solutions. You get a chance to work with and participate in further developing products that are used by billions of users in daily basis. Products that are widely recognized by their quality and innovation.

For further information please contact Karthikeyan S karthikeyan.sathasivam@kone.com. Please submit your application already today but no later than October 17th 2025.

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

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