Are you invested in securing a safe environment for future generations? Do you know the threat that traditional biocides cause and how broadly they are represented in our everyday lives? Are you a very structured and organized project manager, with knowledge about chemicals and/or microbiology, and would you like to be a key player in a scale-up company with great ambitions? Then, we recommend you continue reading.
This role offers a unique opportunity to join a growing company with an impactful purpose, backed by strong investors from the Innovation Fund Denmark and the EU. Purgos is a Danish company, based on the discovery and application development of a low-toxic and low-volatile organic compound alternative to traditional biocides.
We are looking for a Project Manager, who can be a ‘Jack of all trades’, who can manage multiple tasks. The tasks include managing stakeholders and reporting in a huge EU funded project, finding Purgos’ future office location, overseeing outsourced manufacturing and logistics processes, and more.
You are offered a unique role in a scale-up and with a lot of autonomy, reporting to the CEO. The intention is, within 1-2 years, to grow in number of employees. Currently, your future colleagues are represented by a few employees as well as external partners.
About Purgos – state of the art next-generation low-toxic biocide
The use of Purgos’ chemical substance discovery holds substantial potential as the next-generation low-toxic biocide (or biocide equivalent) for multiple applications. It has proven effective as a preservative in several industrial applications including paints, coatings and wood protection as well as a general bactericidal and fungicidal action. Indications also show possible use of Purgos as a preservative within e.g. cosmetics and skin care applications as well as a range of other waterborne industrial and consumer products. In short, the solution is ready as a base solution, the customers, big players within their industries, are very interested, and the funding is in place.
Play a key role in a game-changing company in a traditional industry
In this new key role, you will be part of an entrepreneurial and globally minded company, where you will be responsible for developing the organizational set-up and making sure development and customer projects and processes are well executed and documented. In this role, you will be widely exposed to external stakeholders and play a vital part together with our small global team to secure growth and sales of low tox preservation solutions across Europe and the US. You shall expect some travelling across continents.
Because of the nature of the industry, it can be expected that when entering agreements, you will meet questions about regulations, compliance and documentation, and to support you in managing and documenting these efforts, you will collaborate with experts and specialists.
Your main tasks will include:
- Driving operational development and implementing a company structure; Including finding an office location, establishing lab facilities and a small operations unit somewhere on Zealand, Denmark.
- Managing an EU funded project in terms of timelines, resources, documentation and deliveries.
- Overseeing an Application R&D team at the Danish Technical Institute (DTI) as part of an EU/LIFE project.
- Support the sales unit with documentation and sales materials, and after sales, take customer specific requests and adjust these in manufacturing processes.
- Keeping informed on industry trends, products, services, competitors, existing, and emerging technologies, and product-line developments.
‘A Jack of all trades’ and background as project manager and knowledge of Microbiology / Chemistry
As Project Manager, it is imperative that you engage in and communicate with your peers, partners, suppliers, and stakeholders. While being entrepreneurial, you balance it with a strong process flair, where you can take an idea to the next step and create a structured environment, processes and make it scalable.
Furthermore, besides project management skills, you demonstrate well-tuned teamwork skills and can support growing an existing business, identify opportunities, and help converting a pipeline of qualified leads, organizing logistics, laboratory and business development. In short, your tasks will spread quite wide. Though not having line management, yet, you have a genuine interest in building, leading and motivating others, formally and informally.
Your professional skills include following:
- A master’s degree from university or a business school, combined with a professional understanding of regulations, compliance, and documentation.
- A minimum of 5 years of experience and preferably within Chemicals, Microbiology, or Biocides, where you have grown accustomed to work with laboratories.
- Strong project management skills, and preferably having worked with projects in business functions such as operations and logistics.
- Experience in creating compelling presentations, understanding contract complexities, and negotiating agreements.
- Fluent proficiency in English and located in close proximities to Zealand (where the future office will be located).
You are offered a unique opportunity, and you will play a key role in unfolding Purgos’ potential
As Project Manager in Purgos, you are offered an excellent team-focused work environment, where passion and dedication are key to success. It is an opportunity to be a part of a truly innovative and growing internationally focused company with a positive impact on the environment. Furthermore, you and Purgos will be first movers in an established market, where the interest from the market is impressive. The success of Purgos depends on you and your colleagues’ ability to harvest the opportunities that are presented to Purgos.
Contact information
To learn more about the role, you are welcome to contact Assignment Manager Mehmet Kökten on phone +45 7027 7733 or send a mail to MEHK@hudsonnordic.com.
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