Senior PMO Leader: Drive Cross-Functional Projects

UPM; Helsingin seutukunta; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful work

Supportive culture

Career development

Sustainability focus

Job summary

UPM is seeking a Project Management Office Manager in Helsinki or Lappeenranta, Finland. You will lead cross-functional, end-to-end strategic projects across bio-based businesses, coordinating with commercial, technical and leadership teams, setting agendas, and driving decisions to completion.

You will report to the Director Commercial Development, manage the PMO operating rhythm, and maintain project templates, dashboards, and documentation to ensure consistent reporting and delivery

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering complex, cross-functional projects in a commercial or industrial B2B setting.
• Strong governance, meeting facilitation, and reporting rhythms for leadership updates.
• Experience managing budgets, timelines and cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of key strategic projects end-to-end with timelines and milestones.
• Hold stakeholders accountable for deliverables and follow-up.
• Run project meetings with clear agendas and action items, ensuring timely completion.
• Maintain and improve project templates, trackers, and documentation across the portfolio.
• Coordinate critical meetings and ensure alignment between commercial, technical and leadership teams.
• Report project status to senior leadership with concise dashboards and summaries.
• Identify, manage and mitigate risks, issues and dependencies delaying delivery.
• Manage budgets and resources, tracking spend vs. plan and flag variances.
• Continuously improve PM processes and standardize approaches across the team.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Governance

Meeting facilitation

Communication

Budget management

MS Project

Smartsheet

Excel/PowerPoint

Reporting

Education

Degree or equivalent experience

PMP/PRINCE2 (adv)

Tools

MS Project

Smartsheet

Excel

PowerPoint

Salesforce (adv)

Job description

UPM is seeking a Project Management Office Manager in Helsinki or Lappeenranta, Finland. You will lead cross-functional, end-to-end strategic projects across bio-based businesses, coordinating with commercial, technical and leadership teams, setting agendas, and driving decisions to completion.

You will report to the Director Commercial Development, manage the PMO operating rhythm, and maintain project templates, dashboards, and documentation to ensure consistent reporting and delivery