In the VELUX Group, we offer you a world of opportunities and the chance to create a bright future. From the forefront of the sustainable indoor living industry, we enable those who live, work and play under the roof transform their spaces and live a healthier everyday life with more daylight and fresh air.
The VELUX Group is an international, family-owned business with strong financial roots and each year we are able to create real impact by reinvesting in society, our employees and planet through our foundations.
Alongside the rest of our values, “courage” and “mutual respect” define our actions every day and how we wish to contribute to the world.
Currently, we are looking for a new Circularity Program Manager (PMO lead), who will be responsible for leading the program to develop and implement circular opportunities for VELUX customers.
Your main duties
In this position, you will be responsible on a global level for modeling and driving the decision making process and eventually leading the execution of new business models relating to circularity.
Furthermore, your primary tasks will be:
1. Being responsible for the process around qualifying and blueprinting predefined circular opportunities in close collaboration with relevant global teams around the organization
2. Driving the process ensuring that the opportunities will be assessed and management will be able to decide what initiatives to pilot in what countries
3. Collaborating closely with relevant functions across the organization from logistics to sales
4. Supporting local teams in deploying pilots in different markets
5. Bringing together the necessary people from across VELUX to deliver on the objectives and coordinating external consultants supporting the process
We expect this position to be located in South of Paris or South of Brussels.
What do you need to be effective in this role?
You are able to understand complex topics around circularity and structure the way in turning them into business achievements across an international, matrix organization. You have a “magnetic” customer centric mindset that allows you to engage different key stakeholders in the initiatives you are promoting.
Furthermore, we expect that you are:
6. Experienced in managing complex projects with many stakeholders across functions
7. Experienced in starting up new business initiatives
8. Potentially experienced with circularity/sustainability, but it is only an advantage
9. Understanding of different cultural settings and different needs in different markets
Your opportunities
You will work alongside experienced and passionate colleagues – in a setting where knowledge is shared, and responsibility is given to those who can and will. Our team is characterised by an informal tone, strong feedback culture and respect for each other both as team players and as individuals.
We are a strong value-based company where commitment, thoroughness and mutual respect are among the core values and teamwork and professionalism is essential to the way we work.