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Project Manager for Energy Innovation - January 2023
remote, remoteFor one of our clients we are looking for a Project manager for energy innovation:
Description:
Project description: The “Uniper Innovation” department is the spearhead of Uniper’s innovation activities. The ambitious CO2-neutral roadmap 2035 was recently announced as part of the new strategy. The aim of the project is to consult our project management office in the project Östersund (Green Methanol Production in Sweden).
Tasks:
Required skills:
Nice to have:
Location: mainly remote
Start: January 2023
Duration: 6 months
Capacity: ca. 40 hrs./week
Description:
Project description: The “Uniper Innovation” department is the spearhead of Uniper’s innovation activities. The ambitious CO2-neutral roadmap 2035 was recently announced as part of the new strategy. The aim of the project is to consult our project management office in the project Östersund (Green Methanol Production in Sweden).
Tasks:
- Set up, maintain and supervise portfolio and individual project plans as developed by and agreed upon with innovation manager according to the innovation agenda and personal targets for projects that aim to reduce CO2 in fuels as part of our CO2 to fuels project portfolio - by mainly using MS office and MS Teams. Present the project plans to the Innovation Manager for a sign off.
- Draft and format project related documents using MS office - based on Uniper corporate design.
- Set up project documentation and coordinate project information flows between internal and external stakeholders mainly using MS office and MS Teams. Present the project documentation to the Innovation Manager for a sign off. Integrate project documentation in MS Teams.
- Set up, moderate and document project meetings and conduct remote workshops with internal and external project partners to discuss project related content on individual project needs. Prepare training material for the workshops. The number and participant number of project meetings and workshops depend on the needs of the business and will be communicated by the management.
- Prepare management communication based on swarm intelligence and present it to the Innovation Manager
- Set-up and calculate MS Excel business cases based on real figures (in case information is available and industry / project is mature enough) or hypotheses and assumptions to achieve informed positions - which includes developing a market understanding allowing to pitch a business case to the board / senior management). Come up with a hypothesis in case no hypothesis was provided for the case in advance.
- Perform research activities (do desktop and field research / interviews) to evaluate market size and technology readiness level on energy markets, the technology-landscape and potential project partners to evaluate the project viability and present it in a PowerPoint presentation to the innovation manager and Uniper internal stakeholder. Evaluate based on viable business case / Uniper strategic rationale. Decide freely on the methods of research.
- Analyze value chains and map capabilities (based on internal information provided in advance and the market analysis) for potential projects to evaluate the project viability and present it in the form of a documentation with proposals for improvement or implementation to the Innovation Manager (mainly in MS office) for sign off. Evaluate based on viable business case / Uniper strategic rationale.
- Create initial drafts for board decisions (“strategic / financial decision”) and present it to the Innovation Manager.
- Update project portfolio and project plans for projects that aim to reduce CO2 in fuels as part of our CO2 to fuels project portfolio by mainly using MS office and MS Teams. Present the project plans for a sign off to the Innovation Manager.
- Create project documentation based on the information received from the Innovation Manager and develop project information flows. Present the project documentation for a sign off to the Innovation Manager. Present it afterwards to the internal and external stakeholders mainly using MS office and MS Teams.
- Moderate and document project meetings and conduct remote workshops with internal and external project partners to discuss and identify project related content on individual project needs. Consult the Innovation Manager on the identified content on individual project needs. Prepare training material by integrating and maintaining the previously created project documentation in MS Teams.
- Draft and format project documents (presentations, contracts, NDAs and LOIs) by using MS office.
- Consult the Innovation Manager regarding management communication and FD presentation based on expertise.
- Develop and calculate MS excel business cases based on previously provided information.
- Analyze the market size and technology readiness level on energy markets, the technology-landscape and potential project partners by performing research activities based on expertise. Evaluate the project viability based on the analysis and present the results in PowerPoint presentation to Uniper for a sign off.
- Analyse value chains and map capabilities for potential projects to evaluate the project viability and present it to the Innovation Manager mainly in MS office for sign off
- Prepare initial drafts for board decisions (“strategic/ financial decision”) and present it to the Innovation Manager
Required skills:
- Good project management experience
- Quick grasp.
- Ability to clearly structure and prioritize complex projects.
- Ability to work with stakeholders across hierarchies in a matrix organization.
- Fluent English
Nice to have:
- Industry knowledge: Energy industry
- One to three time per quarter Project meeting in Düsseldorf
- Occasional travel to Denmark/Sweden; For these trips to Scandinavia, the travel costs are settled in the system Fieldglass.
- It is assumed that there will the trips to Sweden/Denmark will be very rare
Location: mainly remote
Start: January 2023
Duration: 6 months
Capacity: ca. 40 hrs./week