Pre-Project Manager

At Tetra Pak we commit to making food safe and available, everywhere; and we protect what's good – protecting food, protecting people, and protecting the planet. By doing so we touch millions of people's lives every day. And we need people like you to make it happen.

Tetra Pak Processing designs, supplies, installs, and commissions processing equipment as well as provides after sales service to producers of Dairy, Cheese, Prepared Food, Ice cream, Beverage and Cosmetics products. Within this organization we have the Pre-Project Department as part of the Order Fulfilment Capital Equipment Engineering Centre North Europe.

We are looking for a Pre-Project Manager, who will be responsible for preparing Production Solutions. You will report to the Manager Pre Projects, and you will be part of the Project Centre France, Benelux and North Europe Pre-Project Team of 19 persons.

This position is office based in Lund, Sweden, but you need to be prepared and flexible to travel up to 20%. This means approximately 1 day in a working week will be spent at customer site within the North Europe market area (mainly the Nordics Countries, but also to UK and Ireland and the Benelux countries).

As a Pre-Project Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Lead the pre-project phase and take overall responsibility for the pre-project execution in compliance with the project governance and quality procedures in place.
• Understand the client’s need and propose the appropriate solution to meet their expectation
• Study the client’s tender materials, flag, discuss and document deviations from Tetra Pak standards
• Create the technical solution, develop the process functional diagrams and P&IDs
• Specify the equipment, calculate the costs and cooperate with supply management to deliver request for quotations to the third-party equipment and services providers
• Develop the project time schedule and define the commissioning and performance criteria
• Prepare the quotation materials and contract documents.
• Drive the design review, risk assessment and quotation reviews
• Support the sales team to deliver technical and/or commercial presentation of the Tetra Pak offer to customers
• Drive productivity in pre-project through utilization of global reusable solutions, processes, and tools (OFCE, project governance, risk management, etc.).
• For sold projects, drive the project handover to the implementation project manager and project team and provide support as needed
• Capture and document the lessons learned in the sales phase

• Outstanding negotiation and communication skills, ability to communicate effectively both with your colleagues at sales, engineering and supply chain, and your customers and suppliers
• Strong technical background both in theory and practice, and a degree level in an Engineering or food related subject
• At least 5 years working experience from the food industry. During these years you have designed and implemented food processing solutions
• Probably previously worked as a process engineer, upgrades engineer, process design engineer, project engineer, sales engineer or even as a project manager
• You are able to manage the promises and expectations in a way to bring satisfaction for all stakeholders. This enables you to control the project in the sales phase
• You are familiar with the newest technologies of food processing, and you have a sustainability mindset
• You worked with customer tenders and delivered tenders to suppliers

We Offer You

• A variety of exciting challenges with ample opportunities for development and training in a truly global landscape
• A culture that pioneers a spirit of innovation where our industry experts drive visible results
• An equal opportunity employment experience that values diversity and inclusion
• Market competitive compensation and benefits with flexible working arrangements

Du vill göra skillnad. Det vill vi också. Varje dag arbetar vi för att förbättra tillgången till säkra livsmedel för människor över hela världen – och samtidigt skydda planeten. Oavsett om du precis har inlett karriären eller är redo för nästa steg – kom till oss. Tillsammans kan vi bli en del av lösningen.