Senior Project Manager/PMO

Short Intro and About the Job

The mandate is to drive visibility, accountability, and execution discipline across all disciplines within project, ensuring the project consistently delivers on strategic priorities, financial commitments, and operational value creation.

As a Senior Project Manager, you will be in charge of:

Project Governance & Performance Management

• Lead the project governance framework
• Build and operate an enterprise-level performance cockpit tracking scope, cost, schedule, risks management and benefits for the project
• Drive, monthly and quarterly performance reviews with senior leadership
• Facilitate early escalation on high-visibility or at-risk projects.

Project Insights & Decision Support

• Translate project performance data into executive insights
• Prepare decision-ready materials for investment committees
• Provide forward-looking risk and interdependency analysis
• Manage the annual capital planning cycle

Standards, Tools & Digital Enablement

• Own and evolve the PMO toolkit
• Champion digital PM solutions and dashboards
• Drive enterprise-wide adoption of common tools

Capability Building & Operating Model Excellence

• Provide coaching to project team
• Ensure vertical start-up readiness and benefits tracking

Within your role you will have a high level of exposure and wide range of connections (R&I, Marketing, Plant directors, Operations, Sourcing, Quality, Food Safety, Suppliers of industrial processes…)

About You

We are looking for an experienced PMO with experience in project management within capex or operational projects and is willing to join Engineering team in Poland (Bieruń). The following qualifications outline what we’re looking for, including both required and preferred criteria: Education & Experience:  

• 5+ years in capital program governance or engineering PMO in asset-intensive industries
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Technical Sciences, or a related field

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:  

• Strong command of capex management
• Executive communication and decision-support capability
• Leadership & Behavioral Competencies
• Enterprise-minded influencer
• Structured, analytical, and disciplined
• Strong change-leader who can drive convergence
• Skilled at navigating ambiguity
• Technical & Functional Skills
• Expertise in project controls, capex budgeting, and risk management
• Strong digital literacy (Power BI/Tableau, PPM tools)
• Ability to create executive-ready reporting
• Skilled at running complex governance routines

 

  

About Us, We offer and What's next

At the Danone group we are fulfilling our mission, according to which „we bring health to as many people as possible”. 

As a Senior Project Manager/PMO on a 24-month assignment, you will be part of the SKYR project team within our Dairy Division, reporting directly to the Project Engineering Manager, SKYR, with a dotted-line reporting relationship to the EMEA PMO Manager.

 

We offer:

• This role is offered on a 24-month fixed-term employment contract with an annual performance bonus. It offers the opportunity to gain valuable experience in a global organization and play a key role in delivering high-impact strategic projects.
• Essential work tools provided (company car, laptop, and mobile phone)
• Exposure to cross-functional and international collaboration
• A dynamic environment combining strategy, science, and business
• Work in a professional environment with a well-developed feedback culture,
• Access to a benefits platform offering discounts on company products and vouchers for cultural and sports events,
• Subsidy for Luxmed / Medicover - after all, we prioritize health,
• Subsidy for a Multisport card,
• Life insurance and Employee Capital Plans (PPK)

 

What's next:

 

After clicking the 'Apply' button you will create your profile in the recruitment system by uploading your CV. We will carefully review your experience and then we will arrange the selected candidates for the first Teams interview.

 

We embrace diversity in our organization. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.

 

Administratorem Twoich danych osobowych udostępnionych w profilu oraz w dokumentach składanych w ramach rekrutacji jest Danone Sp. z o.o. z siedzibą w Warszawie (ul. Bobrowiecka 8, 00-728 Warszawa).

Danone Sp. z o. o. with its registered office in Warsaw (ul. Bobrowiecka 8, 00-728 Warszawa) is the controller of your personal data disclosed in the profile and in documents submitted during the recruitment process.