Lindström: Data Project Manager

Are you looking for the next steps to shine professionally in a multicultural environment with circular economy present in your everyday work? Get ready to work in an innovative textile service business named as one of the most interesting companies in the circular economy, with a turnover of 495 million. With a 175-year-long history (not retiring anytime soon!) of caring for our people and customers, we are ready to expand our Lindström family. Currently we, a Finnish family-owned company awarded with the Family Business of the year 2021 in Finland, have over 5,000 inspiring people in 23 countries around Europe and Asia. Now is your chance to become part of the journey of helping our customers to grow more in a sustainable way. Take a leap with us as our new:

DATA PROJECT MANAGER

As Lindström’s new Data Project Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of any data project. This includes setting project goals, timeframes, and budgets, as well as managing the project team to ensure projects are completed on time. In addition to leading project teams, you will be working closely with relevant vendors and business stakeholders across several functions. Your location will be at our Head Office in Kalasatama, Helsinki, where we are working in a hybrid model. 

In this role, your key responsibilities include: 

• Acting as leader for data project teams, as well as overall project management (i.e. resourcing, budgeting, documentation, delivering status reports)
• Ensuring project goals are met and business value is delivered
• Creating and maintaining data cleansing, data migration, AI and BI project plans
• Managing stakeholder interactions throughout the entire project lifecycle
• Managing collaboration between different vendors in the project
• Risk management and mitigation
• Preparing and facilitating project steering sessions
• Reporting project outputs and deviations to the steering group, as well as reporting decisions and guidance from the steering group to the project team
• Following good project management and project portfolio management practices and ensuring correct signoffs and hand over
• Proactively ensuring the projects are on track to meet targets
• Leading, supporting, coaching, and guiding the project team

We are looking for a new team member who has experience in data project management, leading project teams, and taking care of all project related preparations, practicalities, planning, and execution. Excellent project management and organizational skills are essential for this role, as well as excellent communication and collaboration skills. The ability to prioritize tasks is important, as well as a proactive and result-oriented approach to work. If you are looking for new challenges in a truly multinational business environment, you might be the one we are looking for!

Our ideal candidate has: 

• At least two years of experience in technical change project management
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in information systems, economics, or related field
• Experience in data migration, data cleansing, data platforms, AI development and deployment projects
• Experience with MS Dynamics 365, MS Azure Data Platform, Azure AI, and Power BI
• Knowledge of data management, master data management, data quality management, and data privacy
• Excellent project management skills and familiarity with project management methodologies
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to identify dependencies and impacts in large and complex processes and system landscapes
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and facilitation skills
• The ability to multitask and work on several projects simultaneously
• Delivery- and results-oriented approach to work
• Experience in working across borders in a multinational organization with international colleagues in different functions
• Excellent written and verbal English language skills 

We offer you an exciting and challenging position in a unique business environment, where you will get to innovate, bring forward your own ideas, and work at the heart of circular economy. You will get to work in a great team of experts who truly enjoy what they do. We will support you by encouraging you to grow and develop professionally. To help you on your Lindström journey, we offer you several benefits such as comprehensive health care services and sports, culture, and well-being benefits via Epassi. In everything we do, we want to live our purpose: we care for people and our planet by inspiring people to shine and businesses to grow in a sustainable way.

Interested? For more information, please don’t hesitate to contact Xiao Ma, Director of Data & Analytics. You can reach Xiao by phone at +358 50 487 2972 on Thursday, May 2 between 15:00 – 16:00 EEST or on Friday, May 3 between 13:00 – 14:00 EEST.

To apply, please fill in our online application form no later than Wednesday May 8, 2024. Act fast as we will be reviewing applications already during the application period, and the decision will be made as soon as a suitable candidate has been found. The starting date for this position is negotiable, but we wish to have a new team member as soon as possible. The position is permanent. We look forward to hearing from you!

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