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Founded in 1910, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world’s cities better places to live. We are a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Through our innovative solutions, we strive to make people's journeys safe, convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.

We pride ourselves on our family-centric culture and guiding principles that serve as the foundation of who we are and how we do business. In addition to our passion for safety and innovation, our culture is strengthened by our values of care, customer, collaboration and courage which connects us closer to the customers and communities we serve and makes us a great place to work. In addition to providing competitive salaries and an environment built on teamwork, flexibility and respect, we offer world-class benefits such as a matching 401K, pension plan, comprehensive health care and wellness plans for your entire family, as well as paid holidays and paid time off.

A Project Manager plans, directs and coordinates the activities of designated supply line projects and solutions to ensure that the overall front line project objectives are accomplished within the agreed schedule and budget using approved KONE methodologies and tools. You will coordinate the engineering and supply responsibilities of a project and ensure supply tasks and deliverables are on time, profitable, meet customer expectations and the expected levels of safety and quality. Manage the interaction between all key stakeholders for this phase of a project. Improves and develops the processes and tools related to daily work and supports the order management and order engineering teams.

As Project Manager for Supply Line, your main responsibilities will be:

• Using a feasible solution to complete the supply project safely, on time and within budget.

• Acting as one contact point in supply line for projects in execution phase.

• In charge of receiving the elevator/equipment/component orders from frontline and booking the order into the supply line Order Book.

• Verify the received order information, steering order bound engineering and confirming the order to front line.

• Manage project design quality planning, sourcing planning and logistics planning.

• Supply chain scheduling across KONE .

• Supply project variation and scope management.

• Receiving and processing clarification requests from frontline, involving internal and external interest groups if necessary.

• Effective collaboration and communication with and between all stakeholders.

• Composing, collecting and distributing necessary technical information to frontline.

• Informing frontline about any deviations in delivery operations.

• Providing support for Supply Line claims.

• Making sourcing decisions for main components.

• Confirming material delivery times and transfer prices to frontlines.

• Identifying and facilitating project related change management activities.

• Shared responsibility for supply project cost control with Front Line (FL) Project Manager but with direct responsibility for the project’s financial result in supply line.

• Resource planning for the supply project and leading the multifunctional supply project teams.

• Managing Supply Line (SL) Project Start Up meeting and Design review meetings.

• Supply project reporting, project audits, internal handovers and supply project final closure.

• Manage and approve project variations.

• Coach Project Coordinators / Specialists.

• Participate in project steering group meetings providing project management input.

• Resource, financial and quality planning for the supply project and leading the multi-functional supply project teams.

• Custom equipment vendor management.

The desired candidate will have:

• Minimum 3-years of experience in project management

• SAP

• Cost management

• Manage transfer price and cost understanding of delivery chain

• Supply chain delivery process management competences

• Bachelors or Master's Degree in Engineering or Business Administration

• Fluent level of English, additional languages are a plus

• IT skills

• Willingness to travel worldwide

• Proven track record of improving project profitability in previous projects and in executing projects through successful customer management

• Proven track record of successful co-operation with customers

• Elevator / Escalator technical competences are a benefit but not required

* Applicant must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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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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Did you know KONE moves over one billion people every day? In 2023, we had annual net sales of EUR 11.0 billion. We employ over 60,000 driven professionals in more than 60 countries worldwide joined together by a shared vision. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, it is our mission to improve the flow of urban life.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.