About us
Damen division Mid-Sized Vessels (MSV) represents one of the four ship-newbuild domains of Damen Shipyards, alongside Workboats, Yachting and Naval. MSV focuses on selling, designing, engineering, building and commissioning of mid-sized vessels in various Product Groups. These vessels are characterized as technologically complex, ETO (engineered-to-order), built as one-off or in limited series.
With head offices in The Netherlands division MSV also has locations in Romania (shipyards Galati and Mangalia), Ukraine and Poland (engineering).
The Business and Project Office is a new department within MSV and is all about continuous improvement. It is there to keep focus on Organizational excellence, improving the way we do our work with common standards and harvesting lessons learnt: becoming better step by step.
In short, the key responsibilities for the Business and Project office are to:
- Facilitate and drive improvements across the MSV organization;
- Provide aligned and defined project management standards;
- Support the MT in addressing strategic questions for MSV (i.e. portfolio discussions and resource allocations).
The role
The new Business & Project Office Manager will have an important role in establishing the position of the Business & Project Office within the division and in getting changes implemented/adopted. First task for the Business & Project Office Manager is the creation and execution of a detailed plan on a successful implementation of the Business & Project Office. Which will also include (but is not limited to) alignment with stakeholders and planning and organizing the handover from Change program activities.
Key accountabilities
Main responsibilities are:
- Support in regard to overall portfolio planning and strategic development of the MSV organization;
- Enabling a fact-based decision making throughout the organization;
- Definition and optimization of the end-to-end process across all functions (excl. department internal processes);
- Definition of project management standards applicable to all MSV projects;
- Facilitator and driver of improvements across the MSV organization.
The Business & Project Office Manager reports directly into the Managing Director for MSV. The manager will lead a small team, consisting of 2 fulltime members and temporary assigned resources.
Skills & experience
In order to be successful in this role you have:
- A Bachelor or Master degree in Business Economics and/or Engineering;
- Plus 10 years of relevant work experience in companies > 500 employees in large project environments;
- 5 years experience as a Project Leader in minimum of 5 different projects;
- A strategic mindset;
- A structured way of working, fact based;
- Excellent organizational and multitasking skills;
- Fluency in English. Dutch, Polish, Ukrainian or Romanian are a plus;
- Tech savvy.
What we offer
We want to make sure you are comfortable in your role as Business & Project Office Manager, so we will support you to develop yourself in this position. We are a growing organization where innovation is the driving force. Entrepreneurship is in our DNA, and that is why we continue to grow and innovate and offer plenty of opportunities.
We offer you:
- Personal guidance, freedom, varied work and a work environment where your opinion counts;
- An excellent benefits package tailored to your experience and education level;
- A dynamic international working environment focusing on technology and innovation;
- An open, informal, no-nonsense culture with short communication lines;
- An active social environment in terms of business culture, events and sports.
Other
We look forward to meeting you! Do you need more? Don't hesitate to get in touch with Gerard Eggink (Recruiter) 06-10 26 55 93
Damen Mid-sized Vessels does not approve of a commercial, contractor and/or agency acquisition or commercial use of this advertisement. Proposing candidates without invitation is not appreciated and will not be considered.
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