Team Lead for Project Directors

Summary

In this role, you will lead selected strategic projects as Project Director, ensuring successful execution while supporting Bühler’s strategic objectives and maintaining a strong customer focus. At the same time, you will lead and develop a high-performing team of Project Directors responsible for large-scale, cross-business, and complex projects. You will provide leadership and coaching across regions and business units, foster a consistent approach to project execution, drive continuous improvement, and ensure the highest standards of delivery and execution quality.

Job Responsibilities

• You act as Project Director for selected strategic and complex projects, taking ownership of execution strategy and leading project teams to achieve or improve cost, schedule, quality, EHS, and customer satisfaction targets
• You manage key project activities and stakeholder relationships, including quotation support, project controls, contracts, risks, opportunities, change orders, claims, reviews, reporting, negotiations, and relationships with customers, partners, and subcontractors
• You lead, coach, and develop Project Directors across regions and business units through direct and matrix leadership, ensuring high performance, collaboration, capacity planning, workload balancing, succession planning, and effective performance management
• You provide strategic guidance to Project Directors on project execution strategy, deviation management, contract management, leadership, and decision-making for large, cross-business, and complex projects
• You drive project management excellence by promoting transparency, lessons learned, best-practice sharing, continuous improvement, and leading global initiatives that enhance execution quality and customer value

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Project Management, Engineering, or a related field, complemented by a PMI certification or equivalent, and at least 10 years of relevant industry experience in project management with a proven track record
• Proven team leadership experience,  ideally within a matrix environment, with the ability to coach and motivate teams across regions and business units
• Strong skills in project management, project planning, stakeholder management, risk management, contract negotiation, and financial management for complex, large-scale projects
• Very good communication skills with fluency in English ; a good command of German as well as knowledge of additional languages is considered a plus.
• Strong customer focus, a solution-oriented mindset, and the ability to confidently drive decisions and achieve results, combined with willingness to travel globally approximately 30%