Project Manager, Program Excellence Department, Lystrup

Terma Group; Denmark; Hybrid; DKK 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

International Environment

Flexible Working Hours

Pension & Health Care Package

Work-from-home up to 2 days/week

On-site massage

Social & Professional Events

Competence networking

Job summary

Terma Group is seeking a Project Manager or Senior Project Manager to drive complex, international projects from sales support to customer handover. You will link internal and external stakeholders, ensuring alignment, progress and high-quality delivery across the full lifecycle.

You will lead cross-functional teams, maintain schedules, budgets and scope, and work within a matrix structure with remote work flexibility. The role requires occasional travel to customer sites and Terma facilities.

Qualifications

• Education in Project Management or a similar field.
• Solid experience in project management.
• Experience coordinating external stakeholders.
• Experience coordinating vendors and suppliers.
• ERP systems experience is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Drive projects and solutions toward our customers, including budget, schedule, risk, logistics, shipping, and export control.
• Involvement in proposal work toward new contracts and projects.
• Ensure progress and clear visibility of project delivery.
• Escalate activities in the right forums and drive decisions to completion.
• Create an overview and control budgets for engineering workstreams.
• Work across departments to ensure clear alignment.
• Travel a few times per year to Søborg or Lystrup and for customer visits.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Vendor coordination

ERP systems knowledge

Education

Education in Project Management

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Would you like to drive complex projects and work closely with both customers and cross-functional teams? In this role, you will be at the center of the entire project lifecycle, ensuring progress, alignment, and high-quality delivery in a dynamic and international environment. Come and join us!

We are facing an exciting future with considerable growth and demanding changes, as we deliver advanced technologies and mission critical solutions for the defense and aerospace industry. Our systems provide security for people on land, at sea and in the air. Therefore, we are looking for a Project Manager or Senior Project Manager to become part of this journey and contribute to our overall purpose – securing people through advanced technology.

Your role in our team

As our new Project Manager or Senior Project Manager, you will play a crucial role in driving complex commercial projects and ensuring successful delivery from initial sales support to final customer handovers. Acting as the central link between internal and external stakeholders, you will secure alignment, progress, and high-quality outcomes throughout the entire project lifecycle.

In this role, you will lead and motivate cross-functional teams, ensuring strong collaboration and efficient execution across disciplines while driving projects with a clear focus on delivery - ensuring timelines, quality, and scope are met. You will provide direction and support within a matrix organization, ensure clear communication with stakeholders, and drive structure and progress across the project.

You will become part of Terma’s Program Excellence, within the Navl & C2 area, consisting of 19 project managers working across various business areas in an open and collaborative environment, where knowledge sharing, mutual support, and a strong sense of ownership are key. The team works in a dynamic and informal setting, with flexibility to work from home.

How you will make a meaningful contribution

Your key responsibilities include:

• Driving projects and solutions towards our customers, this includes project budget, schedule, risk handling, logistic solutions, shipping, export control etc.
• Involvement in proposal work, towards new customer contracts and projects
• Ensure progress and clear visibility of the project and deliveries
• Escalate the activities in the right forums, and ensure decisions are pushed for and managed effectively
• Creating an overview and controlling workforces on engineering level and managing your part of the budget.
• Working across departments to ensure clear alignment
• The job will require that you a few times a year travel to either Søborg or Lystrup, depending on your location, and a few customer visits, depending on the need.

Bring your world class expertise into play

You are fluent in English both in writing and verbal at a professional level. Danish is an advantage but not a requirement. Moreover, we are also looking for a new colleague with the following qualifications:

• You hold an education within Project Management or a similar field of study
• Solid experience within project management
• Experience of working with many external stakeholders
• Experience regarding coordinating vendors and suppliers as needed
• Experience in handling ERP systems is an advantage
• Experience in having an overview of various projects as well as ensuring a timely delivery

As a person, you are confident and comfortable taking the lead, with the ability to step up and make decisions when needed. You are self-driven and take ownership of your work, ensuring progress and momentum. You have strong project leadership skills and are experienced in managing complex projects and working with large customers. You remain calm under pressure and keep projects on track.

You are proactive and take initiative, identifying potential challenges early and acting on them to ensure continued progress.

We arean international company representing world-class expertise, delivering complex and high-tech products. We value our colleagues and our meaningful contributions to securing people through advanced technology. You will also experience that we have a strong focus on your development, teaching you useful new competences and further strengthening current ones, both professionally and personally. Our company culture is autonomous and engaging, and we acknowledge the importance of flexibility in a great working environment.

When joining Terma, we promise that you will experience: Great people, challenging tasks, world-class expertise, and meaningful contribution in your daily work.

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Benefits at Terma

• At Terma, we prioritize the well-being of our employees, ensuring they are well taken care of. Joining our team comes with a multitude of perks designed to enhance your social life, cultural experiences, and health.
• International Environment: Explore great teamwork and professional sparring with colleagues around the world.
• Flexible Working Hours: Enjoy the opportunity to work flexibly and the option to work from home up to two days per week. Internet connection at home is paid for by Terma.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Receive a 10% paid pension along with a beneficial health care and insurance package. Enjoy discounts from various business partners.
• Well-being Perks: Opportunity to enroll in our on-site massage-offer at our locations in Denmark.
• Social and Professional Events: We have an active staff association that arranges a variety of social activities and events to bring all of our colleagues together.
• Competence networking across professional experts in Terma: Professional presentations and knowledge sharing across the organization.

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We are dedicated to fostering a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and welcoming workplace. Our commitment to DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging) means we actively value and celebrate unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We strive to create an environment where all employees have equal opportunities to succeed, feel respected and valued, and experience a true sense of belonging.

To support an unbiased evaluation process, we kindly encourage applicants to omit personal details such as photos and age from their applications.

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Do you have any questions regarding the position?

Feel free to contact Hiring Manager on e-mail: [e-mail]

Bear in mind, that we need you to confirm that you can obtain a security clearance by the Danish Defense Intelligence Service, and that all adults in your household are not posing any risk to the related risk-evaluation. This entails among other issues:

• That you have as a minimum stayed within NATO/EU/MISWG countries for the last 7 years only interrupted by short stays abroad, and
• That you have not committed serious criminal offences

Terma group has headquarters in Denmark and is a high-tech company developing products and systems for defense and non-defense security applications, including command and control systems, radar systems, self-protection systems for aircraft, space technology, and aerostructures for the aircraft industry. TERMA | Allies in innovation