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About this Senior Project Manager role at KION Group

KION Group · Onsite · Viborg, Denmark
The Senior Project Manager plays the role of CEO of the project—fully accountable for the success, quality, and strategic impact of some of our most complex and high value automation programmes. This is a position for someone who thrives in complexity, influences without authority, and consistently delivers excellence from concept to completion.

As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead large scale, technically sophisticated automation projects across the Nordics region. You will be the strategic driver of project success, ensuring alignment between customer expectations, contractual commitments, and organisational goals. You will operate as a trusted partner to our clients, building long term, credibility based relationships that underpin successful delivery.

Although this role has no direct line management responsibilities, you will lead through influence—guiding cross functional team and shaping best practices within the execution of the projects to ensure every project is delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.

We offer:

  • Career Development

  • Competitive Compensation and Benefits

  • Pay Transparency

  • Global Opportunities

Learn More Here: https://www.dematic.com/en-us/about/careers/what-we-offer/

Tasks and Qualifications:

Project Leadership & Integration

  • Lead the initiation, planning, and execution of complex, strategic automation projects in the Nordics.

  • Define project scope, objectives, and deliverables aligned with organisational strategy.

  • Develop robust project governance, business cases, and project charters to secure stakeholder alignment.

  • Build integrated project plans using advanced project management tools and methodologies.

Schedule & Resource Management

  • Lead and motivate high‑performing project teams, fostering a culture of collaboration and accountability.

  • Develop resource plans to ensure optimal utilisation across multiple concurrent projects.

  • Monitor progress, manage critical paths, and implement corrective actions to protect schedule and budget.

  • Ensure seamless integration of interdependent tasks and activities.

Stakeholder & Communication Management

  • Build strong, trust‑based relationships with customers and internal stakeholders.

  • Develop communication plans that ensure clarity, transparency, and proactive engagement.

  • Provide regular project updates, highlighting progress, risks, and key decisions.

  • Facilitate project meetings and act as a strategic advisor throughout the project lifecycle.

Contract & Vendor Management

  • Support negotiation of complex vendor and supplier contracts.

  • Manage vendor performance and ensure compliance with contractual obligations.

  • Oversee change orders, contract modifications, and documentation processes.

Financial & Risk Management

  • Develop and manage detailed project budgets, ensuring financial discipline and value delivery.

  • Track costs, analyse variances, and implement corrective actions.

  • Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, escalating critical issues when necessary.

  • Lead structured problem‑solving efforts to maintain project momentum.

Experience & Qualifications

  • 8–10+ years of progressive project management experience.

  • Proven success delivering large‑scale, complex, cross‑functional projects with strategic impact.

  • Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence without authority.

  • Experience managing budgets, risks, contracts, and vendor relationships.

  • Deep understanding of project management methodologies.

  • PMP certification highly desirable.

  • Willingness and ability to travel extensively (up to 80% annually) to customer sites and meetings in the region.

What We’re Looking For:

  • A true project leader—someone who takes ownership, inspires confidence, and consistently delivers. You’ll excel in this role if you are:

  • A strategic thinker with strong commercial and customer instincts.

  • A confident communicator who builds trust quickly.

  • A resilient leader who thrives in ambiguity and complexity.

  • A champion of continuous improvement and delivery excellence.

Dematic is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. Dematic prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, religion or belief, age, sex, national or ethnic origin, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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About KION Group

KION brands keep the world moving – globally, regionally, and locally. KION is the Supply Chain Solutions Company. With over 42,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we enable smart, sustainable, and reliable supply chains worldwide - wherever goods are stored, moved, or delivered. KION offers its customers the full spectrum of solutions to make their supply chains future-ready. Our international brands, Linde Material Handling, STILL, and Baoli and our regional brands, Fenwick and OM , stand for outstanding technological innovation, intelligent automation and service excellence in forklift trucks and warehouse equipment. Dematic complements this expertise with state-of-the-art automatio

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