About Umicore
Powering the cars of today and tomorrow. Reducing harmful emissions. Giving unique properties to high-end applications. Giving new life to used metals. As a global advanced materials and recycling group, we develop, produce, and recycle materials for a better life.
What you will be doing
With the introduction of the Umicore CORE strategy, Umicore has clear and challenging ambitions for the future. In order to ensure reaching these ambitions, we are looking to have a strong Project & Portfolio governance within department. We are expecting this function to setup governance, policy, procedures and KPI’s for all projects.The manager at level needs to ensure that a full portfolio of all complex projects within the department of is designed and executed in a professional and sustainable way in order to achieve Umicore’s ambitious global goals. In addition to shaping and steering the project governance framework, this role also acts as a Chief of Staff to the Management Team. This means bringing structure, cadence and clarity to how the MT operates: ensuring balanced and value‑driven agendas, enabling coherent prioritization, tracking commitments, and holding the MT accountable to deliver on its strategic roadmap. The Manager ensures transparency, discipline and follow‑through across both the portfolio and the MT operating rhythm, allowing teams and leadership to focus on execution and value creation.
1. Main responsibilities:
- Develop, implement and operate a global strategy
- This position is expected to setup & manage fully the process of a Project Portfolio Governance from ideation to project execution.
- The manager is responsible to setup project quality gates, review project stages, setup project dashboard to monitor and escalate to management on-time when necessary
- Act as Platform owner of Project and Portfolio Management ToolCommunicate, train and coach program managers and project mgrs. to use the project governance standards and processes
- Act as a chief of staff for the MT of , supporting and facilitating their mgt team meetings, ensuring the right balance in addressing operational needs and strategic roadmap.
- Tracking and holding MT accountable on their commitments.
- Ensure timely execution of the roadmap.
2. Secure business alignment with Umicore’s Business Groups
- Bring oversight on MT level of the cross-functional project portfolio and the overall status
- Serve as a designated point of contact for Business Group management on general topics regarding related projects.
- Prepare strategic review meetings, ao with BU management on the program(s), align with BU management on priorities, time, budget and resources.
- Act as Single Point Of Contact (SPOC) for specific cross-functional projects
3. Drive continuous improvement
- Drive continuous improvement in order to achieve operational excellence
- Identifying gaps and improvement opportunities
- Defining, consolidating and executing improvement plans and ensuring stakeholder alignment.
- Applying the principles of business excellence, continuous improvement and best practice sharing across sites.
Who we are looking for
Requirements:
- Communicator and interpersonal impact (influencing and persuading)
- Strong Master degree (economics, sciences, …) required
- Lean Six Sigma certification is a plus
- Proven project management experience (+10 years) is required,
- Proven experience in directing and strengthening project teams
- Experience working for a large, diverse multinational is preferred.
- Experience working in at least an international environment is required.
- Fluent in English, other languages are a plus
- Excellent Microsoft office skills (PowerPoint, Excel, …)
- Performance and result oriented, internal customer oriented, strives for continuous improvement
- Strong problem-solving skills and stress resistant
- Analytical, lateral & conceptual thinking and decision making
- Strong project and risk management skills
- Strong leadership skills
- Ability to work independently and with a team
- Proactive
- Exemplary behavior towards ethics and integrity.
What we offer
We aim to lead the way. Not just for our customers, but for our employees too. That is why we strive to create a collaborative environment in which we can all succeed, and a culture through which we can all share ideas, develop our expertise and advance our careers. We engage in building an inclusive work culture that offers equal opportunities for all employees irrespective of their diverse backgrounds. As you would expect from a world-leading organisation, we will also reward your contribution with a competitive salary and benefits. With all this and more, imagine what you could do?
Flexible location: Belgium (BE), Germany (DE), or Poland (PL).
For candidates based in Belgium, the role can be performed in hybrid mode from Hoboken (BE).Candidates residing in Germany or Poland are expected to travel to the Hoboken, Belgium office every two weeks.
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