Job Details
Contract Type:
Unlimited / Full-Time
Job Start Date:
9/1/2025
Country / City:
Germany / Hamburg
Company:
Beiersdorf AG
Job Function:
Supply Chain Management
Your Tasks
The Project Manager Factory Design is part of the Global Engineering Team that leads factory development and asset investment in our global production network. This involves creating and implementing site development plans that build a long-term investment pipeline for our factories to maximize business impact through production capabilities. Additionally, the role drives the capital expenditure (capex) process for asset investments, requiring strong stakeholder management and communication skills. During project execution, the role partners with local project leaders to ensure excellent project delivery by applying latest learnings across the global network.
Key Responsibilities:
- Site Development Planning: Establish comprehensive site development plans for new and existing factories, ensuring alignment with global engineering standards and business objectives.
- Portfolio Management: Build and maintain a long-term investment pipeline for the factory network, ensuring strategic alignment with company goals. Enable cross functional priority setting and orchestrate must win initiatives in the organization.
- Capex Process: Drive the capex process for asset investments, including budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis. Continuous business case tracking during execution ensuring delivery against defined success criteria.
- Project Co-Ownership: Partner with local project leaders to co-own the success of engineering projects, acting as a global partner and providing strategic guidance and enable effective project steering to maximize business impact.
- Collaboration: Promote strong collaboration across Engineering, Manufacturing, Finance, Legal, Procurement, Quality, Safety, Real Estate, Capacity Management and other key areas in relation to capex projects and strategy.
- Continuous Improvement: Capture lessons learned and leverage opportunities for continuous improvement across the organization and take responsibility to develop team’s core processes. Further strengthen project management standards and leverage lessons learned through out the global network effectively and translate into core design standards for factory design.
Key Interfaces and Stakeholders:
- Global Engineering Fill & Pack
- Global Engineering PSE
- Regional Engineering Organization
- Technical Managers and PC Directors
- Project Leaders & Directors
- Global Controlling and Supply Chain Operations
- Procurement, Real Estate, Legal
- IIM and Sustainability
Your Profile
Qualifications:
- Education: Master’s degree in Engineering, Life Sciences, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Experience: Long-term proven track record in Supply Chain/Engineering positions, with relevant professional experience in production, manufacturing, process, and plant engineering.
- Skills:
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to manage many stakeholders at all levels and across different geographies.
- Innovative mindset, challenging the status quo and continuously looking for opportunities to improve processes and solutions.
- Proficiency in MS Office applications.
- Ability to navigate a matrix organization, understand complex challenges, and facilitate strong decision-making.
- High communicative competence and cooperation skills, also at the international level.
- Confident appearance and persuasive power.
- Analytical problem-solving skills and target-oriented working methods.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and presentation skills.
- Fluent in English.
Additional information
We embrace Diversity and Inclusion and are committed to providing equal opportunities to all of our applicants - regardless of race, gender, age, religion and beliefs, sexual orientation and gender identity, disability, cultural, ethnic or national origins. We would therefore kindly ask you to include only information and data in your documents which are relevant for the assessment of your application (e.g. curriculum vitae, salary expectations, relevant references and certificates) and encourage you to upload your CV without a picture. If you have any questions, please contact our ext. recruiter Indra Jonuscheit every Wednesday between 14:30 to 15:30 CET via the telephone number: +49 40 49093245.
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About Beiersdorf
At Beiersdorf, we want to help people feel good about their skin - and our commitment goes far beyond caring for skin. For 140 years, we have developed innovative skin and body care products for well-known brands such as NIVEA, Eucerin, La Prairie, Hansaplast, and Labello. We act according to our purpose, WE CARE BEYOND SKIN, and take responsibility for our consumers, our employees, the environment and society.
Behind every brand, every product and every accomplishment are our more than 20,000 employees. It is for them that we live an inclusive culture of respect and trust that is strongly aligned with our values - CARE, COURAGE, SIMPLICITY and TRUST. We also embrace diversity by valuing the uniqueness of each individual and being committed to equal opportunities for all.
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