Project Manager, New Product Introduction

Join our dynamic team as a Project Manager for New Product Introduction, where you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth production and supply chain operations for FOSS' latest analytical solutions in the food industry. Collaborating closely with various teams within FOSS, you'll bridge the gap between development and operations to facilitate successful product launches and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

The job

As a member of the New Product Introduction (NPI) team within the Production and Supply Chain (P&SC) department, you'll represent P&SC in strategic product development projects. Your responsibilities encompass overseeing manufacturing, quality control, warehouse, logistics, and sourcing & purchasing to ensure timely deliveries and high-quality outcomes.

You'll engage in the entire product lifecycle from conception to post-launch production refinement, setting ambitious goals to enhance FOSS' product development and production processes. Emphasizing a culture of collaboration and openness, you'll work closely with stakeholders across departments.

We will start by welcoming you to our office in Hillerød, but at the end of 2025 we will move our production facilities to Frederikssund and the position will be based there, together with the rest of the team.

Primary tasks

The New Product Introduction team is responsible for delivering well-established and robust assembly production processes to ensure successful product introduction and launches and this forms the largest part within your responsibility. As a result, direct collaboration with subject matter experts and stream leads within P&SC and R&D is a large part of your daily work, however you’ll also work closely with stakeholders and team members a from Service and Launch throughout the projects. Your main tasks will be to:

  • Coordinate projects activities within P&SC together with other team members
  • Maintain project oversight, set team direction, and ensure timely delivery of project outcomes
  • Develop transparent project plans and communicate these effectively to stakeholders
  • Improve NPI project management processes to succeed in current and future projects
  • Lead and participate in NPI, P&SC and cross-functional acitivites to improve ways of working, systems, tools and products

Qualifications

We imagine you bring the following qualifications:

  • An academic degree within engineering or production but another academic background may also be relevant. Interest in and ability to understand technical problems quickly is required.
  • Minimum one year of experience working with project management in cross-functional projects, preferably related to production or development activities.
  • Strong leadership skills and ability to navigate elegantly between pragmatism, idealism, diplomacy and persistency.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Fluency in English as this is our corporate language.
  • Strong understanding of LEAN principles is an advantage.

We are looking for candidates who are strong team players and set ambitious goals and inspire their colleagues to achieve them. You thrive in a technical environment and enjoy working periodically under time- and organizational pressure.

We offer

Reporting to the Director of Production Support, you will be part of a strong team of highly skilled and very engaged colleagues.

As Project Manager in NPI you will be directly involved in both technical and process related projects with the opportunity to influence the position along the way, and with great development opportunities, both personally and professionally.
Your learning curve will be steep, and you will have the opportunity to gain responsibility.
Despite our base in Denmark, FOSS has a global mindset and you will experience that FOSS is a highly international environment with +1500 colleagues around the world

Ready to join our team?

FOSS is a family-owned company, and we are proud of our high employee and customer satisfaction along with our open culture and great career opportunities. If you are ready to join our team, send your application by using the link below. We conduct interviews on an ongoing basis. Therefore, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. For further information, please contact Tom Carlsen, Director, P&SC New Product Introduction and Production Support at tca@foss.dk or +45 2019 6633.

FOSS is committed to maintaining an inclusive and diverse culture. You can help us sustain an unbiased recruitment process by not including photo and age in your application.

How to apply

Our goal is to make the recruitment process as professional and positive as possible. The recruitment process starts when you’ve submitted your application online. Vacant positions at FOSS do not always have an application deadline, so please apply today rather than tomorrow. The reason for this is that we want to ensure a fast and efficient process, which means that we review applications on an ongoing basis. Candidates who are invited for interviews will receive an invitation per email.

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Sustainability is an integral part of our business

At FOSS, we have a taken a holistic approach to Sustainability. It’s not only about conducting our business in a responsible and ethical manner. It’s also about developing solutions that make a difference in the world. We help our customers tackle difficult global challenges such as efficiency in food production, consistency in quality and food safety.

We are operating in a world with significant population growth, scarce resources, food safety scandals and growing concerns about the climate. As the leading business-to-business provider of dedicated analytical technology, we play a key role in this environment.

For example, our technology is increasingly important in expanding food supply by making rational use of increasingly limited resources, while ensuring the best quality food reaches the consumer. To address this challenge there is a need for the development of solutions that analyze and make data manageable and actionable throughout the production process. Information management of analytics will be the future of the food and feed industry, enabling producers to increase yields by being more efficient. Intelligent and automated processes that run on data will define our customers’ future production - and much of the 10% of our turnover we annually invest in research and development will be dedicated to this area.

Working at FOSS

We work on a global scale to develop the people working at FOSS. We strive to enhance job satisfaction and motivation by constantly improving the competencies of our managers as well as following up on employee satisfaction.

We know our employees are our strongest asset.

Therefore, we emphasise, invest in and appraise our employees’ knowledge, skills and attitudes, and take pride in creating an environment with trust, confidence and development. We also believe that clearly defined objectives enable people to achieve their performance potential and that the support from the immediate superior is essential. Most important of all; trained, well-motivated and competent employees are a perquisite for success in the future. We manage by values, but also clear objectives, and follow up through regular meetings between the employee and the manager. In these meetings, there is also room to discuss career aspirations and other development opportunities including internal career moves.

You will have the opportunity for internal career development.

As a company, we are small enough for you to get high influence in the job, but we are also big enough for complex development and global careers. If you want to move in a new direction and continue to develop along with your professional capable colleagues, we offer the opportunity for internal career moves inside FOSS. As we are a knowledge-heavy company, this is a win-win scenario for both FOSS and our employees.

Work with creative and professionally strong colleagues.

Teamwork is essential to FOSS. By developing solutions in cross-functional teams, we integrate knowledge, experience and competences from many perspectives to achieve great results. We communicate in a straight-forward manner and solve challenges together. In FOSS, we truly value that you voice your opinion, take responsibility and ownership. Our company size in turn allows for independent, dynamic and fast decisions.

If you join FOSS, we promise you that you will enter an environment with new learnings through projects, new technologies and market opportunities. We love to be entrepreneurial and open-minded to new ideas, and if you get a good idea – you can bring it forward.

Join a company with a clear business idea and purpose, but also strong values.

In a global world with a growing population, there is an ever-increasing demand for safer food, production that is more efficient and less food waste. Globally, we need to produce as much food the next 40 years as the last 8,000 years to meet the needs of a growing population and declining natural resources. A huge challenge, which requires that we become better at utilizing the resources available.

The business vision of FOSS to contribute to a more sustainable use of increasingly valuable agricultural resources, and to the nutrition and health of the people of the world. We provide the industry’s best analytics, which add value to our customers by improving quality and optimising food and agricultural production.

Join FOSS, and you will be part of this mission, more relevant today than ever. 

Meet our employees

Meet Jan – manager of Concept Development in Research & Development

Jan’s daily work as a manager in Concept Development consists of generating new ideas in collaboration with his team and deciding which ideas should be developed. The daily challenge of finding the right solutions to address the needs of our customers is solved by a diverse and competent group of specialists working together.



Meet Mariana – Chemometrician in Research & Development

Mariana is a Spanish Chemometrician specialised in NIR. Coming from a research background her move to FOSS was motivated by a desire to work with real products and real customers. AT FOSS she is involved in the innovation of new products, developing calibrations for the EyeFoss image analysis grain analyser.

About FOSS

FOSS creates end-to-end solutions that secure and improve food quality. From raw material to finished product. Our analysis instruments refine measurements into information management that enables businesses to run intelligent data-driven productions with less waste and bigger yields. Controlling cost and quality across all sectors and value chains, we help food and agricultural producers limit the number of human errors, scale their business faster and reduce manual labour as well as labour costs. We call it analytics beyond measure.

Over the last 60 years, we have made it our business to define the standard of analytical solutions for the food and agricultural industry. We pioneered advanced analysis for the challenging production environments in the 1960’s, and we were the first to integrate chemical composition analysis in process lines. Now our resolve and ambition have also made us the international benchmark in the field of chemometrics and real time analytics.

FOSS is a 100% family-owned company and the leading supplier of innovative analytical solutions; 98 percent of FOSS’ business is generated outside Denmark. FOSS has more than 100 patents and more than 20 world-first product introductions. FOSS employs more than 1700 dedicated people worldwide and has manufacturing, research and development facilities in Denmark and China. Solutions are sold and supported through FOSS sales and service companies in 28 countries and by more than 75 distributors. Many employees have a top-level scientific or technical background, including more than 130 Master of Science and more than 20 PhDs in areas such as photonics, chemometrics, physical chemistry, analytical chemistry, fermentation and bio-engineering, astrophysics, optical communication, physics, quality, nanotechnology, food science and adaptive radiotherapy. We also employ many factory-trained and certified support engineers stationed close to our customers.

FOSS

Foss Allé 1

DK-3400 Hilleroed

Denmark

Phone: +45 70 10 33 70

E-mail: info@foss.dk