KONE moves two billion people every day. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, we employ over 60,000 driven professionals in more than 60 countries worldwide joined together by a shared purpose, to shape the future of cities. In 2024, we had annual net sales of EUR 11.1 billion.
KONE has consistently been featured on Forbes list of World’s Best Innovative Companies, World’s Best Employers & World’s Largest Public Companies. At KONE, we believe in teamwork and a work culture where everyone can be who they are. This is exactly what makes us strong and successful.

WHY THIS ROLE?

The Sr. Project Manager drives customer satisfaction and trust by delivering as planned and communicating proactively. He/she leads all the stakeholders by ensuring a correct planning, execution, quality, monitoring and handover, with the use of KONE methodologies and tools.

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?

• Accountable for project scope, cost, and schedule management, and delivering the project within the defined contractual requirements and KONE objectives
• Proactive management of customer communication throughout the project, understanding of customer needs, objectives and promoting a trustful environment.
• Manages, leads and encourages the full chain project team to meet customer´s expectations. Communicates clearly, transparently and promotes active collaboration and caring of each other to reach mutual success for KONE and the customer.
• Sets clear targets for the project and plans accordingly. Plans and ensures sufficient project resourcing and competences.
• Ensure continuous risk and upsides management of the project, with specific focus on risk identification, mitigation, planning, escalation if needed and recovery actions, and on the other hand adding value by promotion of variations selling during the whole life-cycle of the project
• Ensure integrated project planning and management with customers and KONE full chain teams.
• Responsible for successful project framework implementation meaning project gates and project reviews according to project complexity with special focus on project governance (i.e. steerings)
• Ensures correct project’s financial planning and forecasting, cash flow management and revenue management.
• Responsible for actively driving Sales-to-Operations handover quality, responsible for handover to Customer as well as project closing activities.
• Maintains safety awareness amongst employees and subcontractors leading by own example. Is aware of safety customer requirements and KONE Safety workplace requirements
• Planning of the Installation and tester resources together with relevant resource manager.
• Promoting the usage of lean practices at work.