Program Manager
Program manager, Manufacturing Technology, Pandora Digital & Technology
Do you want to be a part of the world’s leading jewellery company while putting your experience in Digital Technology into use? If yes, then we might have an exciting opportunity for you! You will be part of Delivery & Planning, an exciting business area and work in a truly international organisation of can-do spirited, passionate, and performance-driven people. We value flexibility, where you are trusted to deliver and to focus on outcomes and value.
About the Team:
Pandora has embarked on a multi-year Manufacturing Expansion journey and have just finished groundbreaking of our new manufacturing facility in Vietnam. It’s time for us to expand our manufacturing footprint and enable our customers to give a voice to their loves. We’re on the start line of this exciting journey, and we want you to join us, and bring your extensive project and program management knowledge to the table.
In Delivery & Planning we have a mission of driving and improving end to end delivery of tech initiatives in collaboration with Product and Development teams – seeking to deliver expected outcome for our customers and colleagues in shortest possible time to market while staying within budget. We collaborate, deliver and provide expertise across the Digital and technology domains – and we want to be the healthy friction in our organisation asking the right questions ensuring ambitions are always clear and that we focus on outcome.
If all of above sounds intriguing, we want you to join us to bring your ideas, entrepreneurial spirit and experience to make a significant impact, and help shape this with us going forward. Expect a global journey ahead where you can deploy your experience and seek new ways of doing things, crafting brilliant solutions that enable us to serve our customers and colleagues even better.
Your Role as Program manager, Manufacturing Technology:
In this Digital & Technology role, you will play a key role leading and coordinating all Digital & Technology aspects of the Manufacturing Expansion program. As work will span across our Thailand and Vietnam sites travelling is expected.
What is needed to succeed as Program manager:
• Oversee and lead the E2E delivery of larger programs and initiatives leveraging the suitable delivery methodology (Agile or Waterfall)
• Develop and define comprehensive plans, including milestones, critical path and resource allocation to ensure programs are delivered in quality, on time and budget in Manu Tech
• Own program budgets and financials and work closely with Finance and the Manu Tech leadership on strict financial control
• Leads project teams and coordinate their activities to ensure project objectives are meet
• Actively identifies, assesses and manages risks and dependencies for the success of the program
• Collaborates with external partners to deliver program objectives
• Build effective partnerships not only within your Manu tech, but also with business functions, specifically Crafting & Supply, Merchandising and Supply Chain, and towards internal end users to understand how to best deliver products E2E
Qualifications
• 8+ years of Delivery / Project management experience within manufacturing in large scale strategic programs or projects
• Expert level project management and leadership skills for managing projects and cross-functional teams
• Experience in successfully managing and guiding complex projects from blueprinting, solutioning, capacity planning, budgeting and rollout
• Knowledge of various project management methodologies (e.g., waterfall, agile)
• Professional Project Management certification (e.g., PMP / PRINCE2 / SAFe) is an advantage
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to provide project leadership and direction to all stakeholders and project resources
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills to identify, assess and resolve issues, risks and dependencies.
About Pandora
Pandora designs, manufactures and markets hand-finished and contemporary jewellery made from high-quality materials at affordable prices. Pandora jewellery is sold in more than 100 countries on six continents through more than 7,500 points of sale, including more than 2,700 concept stores.
Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora employs more than 26,000 people worldwide of whom more than 11,500 are located in Thailand, where the Company manufactures its jewellery. PANDORA is publicly listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange in Denmark. In 2018, Pandora’s total revenue was DKK 22.8 billion (approximately EUR 3.1 billion).