Senior Project Manager

KION Group

Cernusco Sul Naviglio, Italy
Not specified (assumed onsite or hybrid based on the role's responsibilities).
Project leadership and integration
Schedule and resource management
Stakeholder and communication management
KION Group is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex automation projects across EMEA, ensuring alignment between customer expectations and organizational goals. The ideal candidate will possess strong project management skills, a strategic mindset, and the ability to influence without direct authority while fostering collaboration across teams

Job Summary

  • The Senior Project Manager plays the role of CEO of the project—fully accountable for the success, quality, and strategic impact of some of our most complex and high value automation programmes.
  • We offer career development, competitive compensation and benefits, pay transparency, and global opportunities.
  • You will lead large scale, technically sophisticated automation projects across EMEA, ensuring alignment between customer expectations, contractual commitments, and organisational goals.

Matching Summary

Match Score: 85

KION Group is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex automation projects across EMEA, ensuring alignment between customer expectations and organizational goals. The ideal candidate will possess strong project management skills, a strategic mindset, and the ability to influence without direct authority while fostering collaboration across teams.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Project leadership and integration
  • Schedule and resource management
  • Stakeholder and communication management
  • Contract and vendor management
  • Financial and risk management
  • Travel up to 80% annually
  • Driving licence for travel

Nice-to-have

  • Influence without authority
  • Strategic thinking and commercial instincts
  • Resilient leadership in complexity
  • Continuous improvement champion
  • Building trust-based relationships

Key Requirements

  • 8–10+ years project management experience
  • Proven success with large-scale complex projects
  • Experience managing budgets, risks, contracts, and vendors
  • PMP certification highly desirable
  • Willingness and ability to travel extensively
  • Driving licence

Work Rights

Not specified

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