Project Manager PMO IMEA

About this Position Do you like to roll up your sleeves and own your results? Are you a strong communicator who builds and leads strong multi-functional teams through the full lifecycle of a capital project? We are seeking an experienced Project Manager with a strong background in the chemical industry to lead and oversee complex capital projects across the IMEA region. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with exceptional stakeholder management skills who can drive not only capital projects, but also capital programs. This role requires regular travel to other sites within India and the IMEA region.

What You´ll Do

1- Stakeholder Management:

• Act as the primary point of contact for project-related communication.
• Ensures the alignment between business objectives and project execution, the availability of information, and the smooth collaboration between workstreams.
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings, such as Sponsor Reviews & Steering Committees with Senior level managers providing transparent updates on project progress, risks, and decision needs.
  
  

2- Lifecyle management of complex capital projects:

• Develop and manage detailed project plans, schedules, budgets, and resource allocation strategies to meet objectives.
• Identify and mitigate risks, ensuring compliance with industry regulations, safety standards, and corporate policies.
• Guide project team through deliverables with close understanding of the nature of capital investment projects and their technical aspects.
  
  

3- Leadership & Talent Development

• Directly manage dedicated project team members as line manager and all related duties, including project task support if needed, co-creating career development plans, and administrative tasks.
• Mentor and develop all project team members, fostering a high-performing and knowledge sharing culture through emphasizing: collaboration, entrepreneurship, and accountability.
• Support organizational capability-building by implementing best practices in project and program management.
  
  

What makes you a good fit

• Project Management: Ability to apply industry best practices to lead a program or project through scope definition and adherence, dependency identification and management, risk and issue management, stakeholder analysis, and critical path mapping.
• Stakeholder Management: Excellent ability to prepare and give presentations to senior stakeholders and team members to ensure alignment, transparent raising of risks and issues, and timely decision making.
• Talent and skills development: Intermediate knowledge to apply situational leadership, develop team members to successfully deliver the project, and co-develop career plans.
• Problem solving: Excellent proficiency in identifying problems, deriving and evaluating possible solutions, getting alignment on path forward, and guiding teams through the agreed upon change.
• Risk & Compliance Management: Strong understanding of industry regulations, safety standards, and risk mitigation strategies. Collaboration: Exceptional ability to collaborate across diverse teams virtually and in-person.
• Data analysis: Strong analytical skills to interpret technical and financial metrics, identify trends, and drive data-informed decision-making.
• 15+ years of capital project management experience, including 5+ years leading large, complex projects in the global chemical industry
• Degree in Chemical Engineering with multiple certifications: PMP, PgMP, CAPM, PRINCE2, and chemical industry-specific engineering credentials
  
  

Some perks of joining Henkel

• Diverse national and international growth opportunities
• Globally wellbeing standards with health and preventive care programs
• Gender-neutral parental leave for a minimum of 8 weeks
• Employee Share Plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares
• Best-in-class Group Medical Insurance policy covering employee, spouse and up to 2 children
• Competitive accident and term life policies for up to 3 times annual gross salary
• Progressive OPD policy of INR 30,000 for employee, spouse and up to 2 children
  
  

At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We look for a diverse team of individuals who possess different backgrounds, experiences, personalities and mindsets.