Project Management Officer EMEIA

ASSA ABLOY is the global leader in access solutions. We aim to deliver innovative, safe and convenient security solutions that provide real added value to customers. The group has an annual turnover of €8 billion and over 50,000 employees. ASSA ABLOY has four times been listed by Forbes as one of the world's 100 most innovative companies.

We are currently looking for a Project Management Officer EMEIA.

What you will do as a Project Management Officer EMEIA:

• Support Divisional IT teams in aligning projects with business strategy, evaluating proposals, and ensuring consistent prioritization and resource coordination across EMEIA.
• Oversee the full project portfolio to ensure it matches business goals, supports planning and prioritization, and helps balance project demand with available resources.
• Help manage resources efficiently by identifying availability, resolving conflicts, and providing visibility into workloads to support Domain Managers.
• Monitor project performance through key indicators and deliver clear reporting and dashboards to support informed decision-making.
• Foster collaboration between project management resources across EMEIA to build and sign off on a set of project management standards.
• Enforce these common project management standards (Agility, GW Process…)
• Develop templates, guidelines, and processes for consistent project execution.
• Ensure projects follow approved methodologies.
• Manage PPM Board & Act as PPM Product Owner.
• Manage Agile Board (TBC).
• Adapt the current GW Methodology to IT.
• Manage PPB.
• Adapt Agility to the EMEIA IT Organization and vice versa.
• Review AX PM / Releases / CR Process according to Agility.
• Get BPOS involved in Agility.
• Drive continuous improvement by sharing lessons learned, reviewing processes regularly, and promoting a culture of learning and optimization.
• Provide coaching, training, and guidance to project managers, build a project management community, and support issue resolution when needed.
• Support effective risk and issue management by identifying challenges early, defining mitigation plans, and encouraging a proactive risk culture.

Ensure clear communication around IT projects and changes, support change management, and tailor messages to different audiences and regions. Maintain up-to-date documentation and knowledge bases, and help deliver training and learning materials in accessible formats. Coordinate internal IT communication across EMEIA, simplify technical messages for broader audiences, and ensure inclusive, two-way communication between regional and central IT teams.

• Degree educated, ideally to Masters level, in a relevant discipline.
• Extensive previous experience in IT, with line management responsibility.
• Proven experience in driving projects for a global, complex organisation, with a proven track record of planning, executing, controlling and closing projects; ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with minimal supervision.
• Excellent knowledge in Process Design and Reengineering.
• Strong Technical capabilities: Business and IT project management (using AGILE or PRINCE2 methodology or equivalent) with sizeable project teams, Risk Management, Change Management.
• Knowledge of benefits and dependency mapping, risk management and resource planning.
• Experience of programme and project level financial management.
• Adept in training and coaching of Project Managers and PMO staff.

In addition to this, you will have a natural aptitude in building strong relationships with a variety of stakeholders and possess excellent communication skills, including the ability to present and influence at all levels and mediate/negotiating agreeable solutions. You will be a personable colleague who is pro-active, professional and able to demonstrate full commitment to exceptional customer care and service. As our common business language, fluency in spoken and written English is essential (additional language skills are highly advantageous).

We are building diverse, inclusive teams and encourage applications from everyone who can see themselves working with us. Let’s create a safer and more open world - together!

We are the ASSA ABLOY Group. Our people have made us the global leader in access solutions. In return, we open doors for them wherever they go. With nearly 63,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries, we help billions of people experience a more open world. Our innovations make all sorts of spaces – physical and virtual – safer, more secure, and easier to access. As an employer, we value results – not titles, or backgrounds. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally. As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.