IT Project Manager

Founded in 1910, KONE is a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world’s cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people’s journeys safe, convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.  

KONE’s vision is to create the Best People Flow experience by providing ease, effectiveness and experience to our customers and users. In line with our strategy, Sustainable Success with Customers, we will focus on increasing the value we create for customers with new intelligent solutions and embed sustainability even deeper across all of our operations. By closer collaboration with customers and partners, KONE will increase the speed of bringing new services and solutions to the market.

KONE Technology and Innovation Unit (KTI) is where we combine the physical world – escalators and elevators – with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new digital solutions that are based on emerging technologies.

KONE IT is a global team of expert professionals working along with business functions and area teams to develop new capabilities and enable new business opportunities. We are trusted partners of KONE business lines and functions to develop, transform, manage and run their information technology solutions. We support KONE in its digital transformation journey by introducing e.g. digital cloud-based IT services, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to support productivity, business growth and technological disruption. ​​​​​​​Sustainability, curious mindset and innovation are at the core of everything we do, and this makes us an integral part of KONE’s success.

IT professionals - KONE Corporation

Project Governance

• Establishing and enforcing project management standards, processes, and methodologies from IT point.

• Ensuring that relevant IT members are recognized and allocation to project agreed (in different phases)

Synchronizing the activities with other streams

• Being the focal point of IT when doing the planning, design, build, testing and deployment

Coordinating the Planning, Design, Build and Test phase from IT point of view

• Ensuring the resources and timing together with KONE internal & external IT stakeholders

• Aligning stakeholders and ensuring clarity on requirements

• Facilitating the needed meetings to gather all needed information and to agree tasks to be done

Overall Schedule and Deliverables Management

• Ensuring that agreed milestones are reached according the project timeline

  • preparation & governance structure including needed continuous meeting throughout the project

  • In design, making sure that responsible IT deliverables are mutually aligned and documented

  • In build, ensuring that deliverables are build according agreed plan and timing and possible ad-hoc findings are taken in to project deliverables

  • Reserving the relevant testing resources from IT including external partners when testing the solution, e.g. SIT (System Integration Testing, Unit testing). Supporting UAT (User Acceptance Testing) from IT perspective and collecting the gaps found & arranging fixes

  • In rollout phase, coordinating deployment activities accross different locations.

Documenting the phases and representing IT in project meetings

• Acting as a focal point representing IT in the project

  • Supporting SME’s: IT Product Owner / Manager, Global Process Owner and other relevant SME’s

  • Keeping the master documentation of IT system development & configuration up to date

  • Ensuring alignment between project teams, leadership and other stakeholders

• Reporting & Performance Tracking

  • Reporting the progress continuously and giving alerts is any deviations occur

  • Arranging corrective actions if new / changed activities seen needed

Describe the team and stakeholders - KONE Supply chain IT solutions

Key technologies or platforms

SAP/SC Planning tools

• Understanding logistics processes and/or supply chain planning processes.

• Understanding of development phases. Knowledge of integrations.

Methodologies

• Familiarity with methodologies like DevOps, Agile, Scrum.

Business area
Supply Operations

• 3–5 years of experience in a PM role, including development coordination and integration projects.

• Relevant experience in facilitating project delivery with modern methodologies.

Soft skills
Person

• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.

• Agile mindset, with the ability to respond to changing priorities and requirements effectively

Communication level, skills and language

• Proficient in English (mandatory). Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of simplifying complex concepts.

• Ensures clear communication, fosters collaboration, and keeps meetings on track with defined agendas and objectives.

Cooperation skills

• Strong coordination, facilitating meetings, and delivering effective presentation. Capable of managing IT steering meetings.

• Capability to create independently high-quality project related documentation in tight time schedule.

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

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