Project Manager

Fortum; Espoo; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortum is seeking a Project Manager to join the Project Management Office (PMO). You will lead end-to-end CCM projects, ensuring delivery on scope, time, budget, and quality while following Fortum’s governance model.

You will coordinate cross-functional teams, manage risks, and align projects with strategic priorities. Strong communication, leadership, and English fluency are required; Swedish or Finnish is a plus.

Qualifications

• University degree in a relevant field.
• Several years of experience in project management.
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams and delivering complex projects end-to-end.
• Strong understanding of project governance, financial control, and structured delivery models.
• Ability to operate in both traditional and agile/hybrid project environments.
• Strong strategic thinking and ability to translate business needs into actionable plans.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to build trust across functions.
• Proactive, structured, solution-oriented mindset with strong ownership of outcomes.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Energy industry experience is a strong merit; English fluency is required, Swedish or Finnish an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, execution, and delivery of CCM projects end-to-end.
• Establish and manage project governance, reporting, and stakeholder alignment.
• Define and manage scope, timeline, budget, risks, and dependencies.
• Drive day-to-day project execution with cross-functional teams and external partners.
• Ensure adherence to Fortum project models, gate processes, and governance.
• Provide transparent reporting and manage risks, issues, and roadblocks.
• Secure alignment between project objectives and CCM priorities.
• Enable collaboration across business, IT, and development teams.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of PMO practices.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Communication skills

Leadership

Education

University degree in a relevant field

Job description

About the role

As a project manager at CCM, you will part a key part of the Project Management Office team whose responsibility is to lead large, strategically prioritized projects for our business unit. The projects you will lead span across the whole value chain of physical and financial trading and include developing new products and offerings as well as optimizing and improving core processes and systems.

Your responsibility is to lead projects end-to-end—ensuring delivery of agreed scope, timeline, budget, and quality—while applying Fortum’s project governance model and best practices. You will play an important role in securing alignment with business strategy, enabling transparency toward stakeholders, and driving value realization from development initiatives.

Main responsibilities

• Lead planning, execution, and successful delivery of complex CCM projects from initiation to completion,
• Establish and manage project governance, including steering structures, reporting, and stakeholder alignment
• Define and manage scope, timeline, budget, risks, and dependencies across projects
• Drive day-to-day project execution, including coordination of cross-functional teams and external partners
• Ensure adherence to Fortum project models, methods, and guidelines, including gate processes and investment governance
• Provide transparent reporting and proactively manage risks, issues, and roadblocks
• Secure alignment between project objectives and CCM strategic priorities
• Enable effective collaboration across business, IT, and development teams
• Contribute to continuous improvement of project management practices and ways of working within CCM PMO

About you

• University degree in a relevant field
• Several years of experience in project management, preferably in complex business or IT environments within the energy sector
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams and delivering complex projects end-to-end
• Strong understanding of project governance, financial control, and structured delivery models
• Ability to operate in both traditional and agile/hybrid project environments
• Strong strategic thinking and ability to translate business needs into actionable plans
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trust and alignment across functions
• Proactive, structured, and solution-oriented mindset with strong ownership of outcomes
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Energy industry experience, especially experience from physical or financial energy markets is a strong merit
• Fluent English. Swedish or Finnish would be considered as an advantage

We offer you

In this role you will get the chance to shape and drive transformation at Fortum.

Furthermore, at Fortum, we believe in a better future and want to be involved in shaping it. Our workplace is a safe place, both physically and mentally. You will grow with professional colleagues, being trusted and free to challenge yourself.

• We offer an international and collaborative working environment with good opportunities to continuously develop, learn and make an impact.
• We offer comprehensive benefits, flexible working hours, and hybrid work model to support your productivity, development and wellbeing.

We are committed to build diverse teams where everyone feels included and is treated equally.

More information about our culture and benefits can be foundhere .

For permanent employment with Fortum Sverige AB, you may be assigned a wartime posting within the organization. For further information regarding wartime posting, please refer to the Swedish Civil Defence and Resilience Agency.