FORTNA partners with the world's leading brands to transform omnichannel and parcel distribution operations. Known world-wide for enabling companies to keep pace with digital disruption and growth objectives, we design and deliver solutions, powered by intelligent software, to optimize fast, accurate and cost-effective order fulfillment and last mile delivery. Our people, innovative approach and proprietary algorithms and tools ensure optimal operations design and material and information flow. We deliver exceptional value every day to our customers with comprehensive services and products including network strategy, distribution center operational design and implementation, material handling automated equipment, robotics and a comprehensive suite of lifecycle services.
At FORTNA, we believe in fostering a workplace that isn't just a job but a movement - a collective effort to redefine success and transform challenges into opportunities. "Join the Movement" encapsulates our commitment to a workplace culture that thrives on collaboration, celebrates diversity, and empowers every individual to contribute to something greater than themselves. Our Team. Our Passion. Our Approach.
FORTNA partners with the world's leading brands to transform omnichannel and parcel distribution operations. Known world-wide for enabling companies to keep pace with digital disruption and growth objectives, we design and deliver solutions, powered by intelligent software, to optimize fast, accurate and cost-effective order fulfillment and last mile delivery. Our people, innovative approach and proprietary algorithms and tools ensure optimal operations design and material and information flow. We deliver exceptional value every day to our customers with comprehensive services and products including network strategy, distribution center operational design and implementation, material handling automated equipment, robotics and a comprehensive suite of lifecycle services.
At FORTNA, we believe in fostering a workplace that isn't just a job but a movement - a collective effort to redefine success and transform challenges into opportunities. "Join the Movement" encapsulates our commitment to a workplace culture that thrives on collaboration, celebrates diversity, and empowers every individual to contribute to something greater than themselves. Our Team. Our Passion. Our Approach.
**Job Description**:
As a FORTNA Project Manager, you will utilize your technical and commercial acumen as you assume full responsibility for project success - from business winning (contract negotiation) to implementation and final handover (project delivery). You effectively coordinate, manage and allocate resources and ensure open and continuous dialogue with our customers.
What you're going to do:
The International business unit is focused on providing a local and dependable partner for customers' whole material handling equipment solution, to respond quickly and efficiently to their operational and evolutionary needs.
You will take managerial responsibility for project delivery as well as (where required) providing expert input and support to the winning business teams on forthcoming projects.
You will assume full commercial and contractual responsibility for our major projects delivery, with strong collaboration with the Project Engineering Team, who are responsible for system requirements, specifications and design.
Main tasks- Lead and manage projects and coordinate work in Italy and with FORTNA's teams around the globe. Motivate and monitor internal and/or external resources to accomplish all tasks and milestones-
- Close collaboration and management of project team including close liaison with Project Engineering Manager and Project Planner to ensure the project is deliver to the highest quality for our customers whilst maintaining the cost, schedule and specification objectives of the projects-
- Take responsibility for ensuring that relevant Stage gate checklists & reports are completed. Prepare regular updates/reports for the project steering committee and product line / business unit management-
- Pro-actively manage all project critical paths to ensure that these are constantly tracked to minimize any slippages-
- Work with relevant functions (supply chain, manufacturing, product management, production engineering, service, etc.) to ensure that the priorities are understood and that capabilities exist across all relevant functions to deliver on time-
- Ensure transparency around project change requests, unforeseen results/events, identified Risks, and ensure that they are properly managed and communicated. Ensure that all opportunities are captured and acted upon-
- Serve as the key contact for stakeholders, and an escalation point for program/project issues. Effectively communicate appropriate information to stakeholders in a timely manner and to achieve desired understanding and support-
- Demonstrate a working knowledge of the mechan