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October 14, 2026

Li-ion Project Manager

Senior • Hybrid

Quick Facts

  • Role: Li-ion Project Manager

  • Experience: 10+ years delivering technical products in an industrial environment

  • Focus: End-to-end management of new Li-ion projects, including industrialization and transition to serial production

Description

Lead end-to-end delivery of new Li-ion projects, from analyzing customer needs and planning project stages to ensuring objectives, deliverables, schedule adherence, and contractual commitments. Ensure effective execution across resources, milestones, governance routines, and stakeholder communication, while driving alignment and supporting arbitration/decision-making. Actively manage OPEX/CAPEX and lead mitigation plans for deviations, while facilitating industrialization and the transition to serial production.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze customers’ explicit and implicit needs

  • Plan project stages and ensure monitoring of objectives, deliverables, and schedule

  • Ensure compliance with the Project Management Plan and contractual commitments

  • Manage project execution: resources, schedule, objectives, deliverables, milestones

  • Establish communication tools and governance routines for the project team and stakeholders

  • Drive team alignment and commitment to project objectives

  • Provide arbitration and decision-making support as needed

  • Lead mitigation plans when risks or deviations occur; inform/escalate stakeholders when necessary

  • Organize customer meetings and ensure proper preparation and distribution of reports

  • Support industrialization activities and collaborate with relevant teams; support Procurement during negotiations

  • Facilitate the transition from project phase to serial production with early and frequent involvement of partner teams (industrialization, quality, etc.)

  • Actively manage and monitor project costs (OPEX and CAPEX); control expenditures and product costs with Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, and others to reach long-term profitability

  • Manage transition to production, Serial Life (including services activities), and the return of experiences at Project Closure; organize project closure activities and milestones

Requirements

  • Master’s degree or Engineering degree

  • 10+ years of project management experience delivering technical products in an industrial environment

  • Experience delivering projects in railway, automotive, battery, or complex systems industries is highly valued

  • Successfully managed international, cross-functional projects

  • Strong customer relationship management and contract management track record

  • Fluent English; customer-focused, proactive, strong communication, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills

  • Analytical mindset, problem-solving ability, and capacity to drive projects to successful completion in a demanding environment

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