About your role

As our new Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for managing strategic company-wide projects and orchestrating the business planning process, bridging strategy and execution. Your key responsibility is to create excellence in project management, foster successful cross-team collaboration, to drive results, and deliver on the strategic goals of Fairphone. You will be reporting to our Chief Impact Officer.

Your profile

• You have 7+ years of experience in project management.

• Experience in strategic business planning is a plus.

• You have a bachelor's degree in the area of Business Administration, Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related field, preferred.

• Studies or courses in project management and sustainability are a plus.

• You embrace diversity in thoughts, opinions, and backgrounds and feel comfortable working with individuals from various nationalities in a multicultural environment.

• You feel a strong connection with Fairphone’s mission (to inspire the industry).

• You (are willing to) live in the Netherlands and have the right to work within the EU.
  

Your responsibilities

Strategic project management:

• Manage a portfolio of strategic projects that span one or multiple lines of business.

• Full project lifecycle ownership: define success criteria, scope, and ensure successful project execution and delivery within the set timeframe.

• Provide on-site leadership for the project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhere to responsibilities, and deliver milestones.

• Manage day-to-day project activities, resources, and chair project team meetings.

• Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and issues, communicating across leadership.

• Establish practices, policies, tools, partnerships, and mentor colleagues to expand and mature project management capabilities for the whole organization.

Strategic business planning:

• Orchestrate the annual business planning, working with the management team and department heads to turn the long-term vision into short-term goals, strategies to deliver those goals, capacity planning, and measures to track progress (Fairphone annual OGSM).

• Provide the management team with visibility on progress in execution (performance metrics and status of strategic projects) and assist them with business strategies prioritization, decision-making, and program management.

• Coordinate the company's 6-week cycles to ensure all stakeholders in the organization are focusing on priorities and allocate resources and work accordingly, fostering cross-team alignment.

• Facilitate the periodic meetings with the management team and department heads: cross-team alignment meetings every 6 weeks, quarterly offsite meetings.

Your skills and experiences

• You have a passion and a successful track record for project management.

• You are structured, disciplined, and result-driven.

• You have the ability to inspire people to work cross-functionally to drive success.

• You can think strategically and long-term but also possess strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

• You have effective communication skills and stakeholder management abilities.

• You are proactive and engage in objective, fact-based decision-making.

• You possess high analytical and numerical skills.

Your future team

What Fairphone offers you

1. The opportunity to create an impact on the electronics industry around the world.

2. A diverse work environment is full of international, passionate, warm-hearted team members.

3. You will have 25 paid holidays per year (based on a full-time contract) next to the other public holidays in the Netherlands. You’ll also get a day off on your birthday 🎉 And what’s more: the longer you stay, the more holidays you get!

4. Daily, healthy lunch, organic FairChain coffee, and many more tasty things.

5. You will join Fairphone’s collective pension scheme and we will contribute to building your pension.

6. You will receive a MacBook and a Fairphone as working devices.

7. Flexible work location - we are remote-friendly and you can work up to 60% of your time from home or any other location you want. We also contribute up to €250 for your home office set-up. Please note: even though we are remote-friendly, we can only hire people who live in the Netherlands or are open to moving to the Netherlands and hold a Dutch citizen service number (BSN).

8. Relocation Support - Fairphone will reimburse the cost of a one-way train (if applicable) ticket to the Netherlands, arrange an appointment at the municipality and provide all the necessary information so that your arrival and settlement in the Netherlands will be smooth and pleasant!

9. Public transport allowance – we fully cover your 2nd class commute from your home to the office.

10. AND Bike allowance – we support you with a bike purchase of up to €300, and you’ll have a yearly repair budget of up to €80, too!

11. Employee Assistance Program - Inuka Coaching

12. Grow with us! We encourage you to develop at Fairphone. That’s why we’ll support your career goals with coachings, trainings, workshops, or courses that you can join with your development budget.

13. We have our own bouldering wall at the office! You can borrow climbing shoes too and we will provide you with basic training.

14. There’s a gym and recreation and yoga rooms in the building where you can build healthy habits, stay active and have fun with your colleagues..

Recruitment process

If you’re a promising applicant, you will go through the following stages:

1. A first phone call with a member of the People team
2. An interview with the hiring manager, that might also be joined by another member of the hiring team
3. A second interview, which includes an assignment or assessment
4. A final chat with a member of the People or Management team
5. Reference checks

Join us!