Senior Manager, Organizational Effectiveness & Transformation

KONE; Espoo; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

KONE is seeking a Senior Manager, Organizational Effectiveness & Transformation in Espoo, Finland. This strategic role focuses on leading transformation programs within People & Communications, aligning stakeholders across regions and ensuring measurable business value.

The role requires a structured program leadership approach, analytical thinking and the ability to influence senior stakeholders, with flexibility for other European time zones.

Qualifications

• Strong track record in strategic problem solving and transformation management.
• Experience in management consulting or complex business change.
• Ability to turn ambiguous topics into clear plans and progress.
• Experience in international, fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Translate transformation priorities into decision-ready project plans with scope, milestones, owners and KPIs.
• Lead E&T and P&C transformation programs from planning to adoption, benefit tracking and impact review.
• Support integration planning across workstreams, surface interdependencies and people implications.
• Facilitate P&C LT meetings, workshops and sessions to yield clear decisions and actions.
• Prepare executive materials, agendas, and proposals to support senior leaders’ decisions.
• Build lightweight scorecards to track transformation progress and value realization.
• Drive stakeholder alignment to accelerate implementation and adoption.

Skills

Strategic problem solving

Transformation management

Senior stakeholder influence

Program leadership

Job description

The People & Communications team enables business performance and competitiveness through engaged and capable people, strong reputation management, impactful internal and external communications and great employee experience. We bring KONE's strategy to life, supporting competence, capability and culture development as well as strengthening the KONE purpose and company story for all our stakeholders. By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to work across a diverse range of topics, while also working closely with our businesses, to help drive the People and Communications agenda.

We are looking for a high-impact

Senior Manager, Organizational Effectiveness & Transformation

to join KONE's (E&T) team.

This is a strategic problem-solving role for someone who can combine structured program leadership, analytical thinking and senior stakeholder influence to help People & Communications (P&C) deliver measurable business value, accelerate transformation execution and build the organizational capabilities KONE needs for the future.

Success in this role is not measured by activity, meetings or materials. It is measured by clear decisions, visible business impact disciplined execution and adoption globally. Your short-term focus will be on strategic P&C transformation priorities, while also supporting integration readiness, people insights and selected E&T priorities that require strong program leadership, senior stakeholder alignment and follow-through.

This role is for someone energized by complexity, high expectations and visible impact: a strategic program solver who brings structure, challenges constructively and turns ambiguous transformation topics into measurable progress.

This role is located in Espoo, Finland, with flexibility for another location within a European time zone.

This role reports to the SVP, Organizational Effectiveness & Transformation.

What you will deliver

Translate P&C transformation priorities into decision ready project plans with clear scope, outcomes, milestones, owners, risks, dependencies, KPIs and business value.

Drive selected E&T and P&C transformation programs from planning to execution, adoption, benefit tracking and impact review: turning operating model choices, capability shifts and governance decisions into plans that reduce duplication, release capacity and clarify ownership.

Support possible KONE-TKE integration-related P&C planning by building integrated plans across workstreams, surfacing interdependencies, clarifying people and organization implications, tracking risks and ensuring disciplined execution.

Facilitate selected P&C LT meetings, workshops and working sessions so each session results in clear choices, decisions, owners and next actions.

Prepare decision-ready executive materials, agendas, pre-reads and proposals to support the EVP and SVP in P&C, P&C LT and other senior forums so leaders can make faster, better and more evidence-based decisions.

Build simple, meaningful scorecards to track transformation progress, value realization, risks, decisions and adoption, translating data into executive insight and practical actions.

Build stakeholder alignment across P&C and business stakeholders in a way that reduces rework, accelerates implementation and improves adoption.

How success will be measured

Key E&T priority projects have clear scope, outcomes, governance, timelines, owners, risks, dependencies and KPIs within agreed timeframes.

Strategic P&C transformation workstreams progress against agreed milestones, with visible capacity release, reduced duplication, clearer ownership and improved execution discipline.

P&C LT and other senior forums result in clear decisions, documented owners, timely follow-up and improved decision quality.

Transformation outcomes are evidenced through cycle time reduction, productivity improvement, efficiency gains, adoption, stakeholder satisfaction, quality of decisions and capability uplift.

Scorecards and progress reporting provide leaders with clear visibility on transformation status, value realization, risks, decision needs and actions required.

Integration-related P&C planning has visible interdependencies, risks, decision needs, people and organization implications and measurable progress across agreed workstreams.

What we're looking for

Strong track record in strategic problem solving, transformation management, management consulting or complex business change in an international, fast-moving environment, with evidence of delivering measurable business impact.

Proven ability to turn ambiguous, strategic topics into clear plans, decision ready options, practical deliverables, accountable owners and visible progress.

Experience from management consulting and/or people, HR or P&C transformation is highly valued, ideally combined with exposure to operating model development, strategy implementation, integration planning or large-scale business transformation.

Excellent facilitation skills,