Location: Milan

You will report to Public Affairs & Innovation Manager

Project Manager in ROCKWOOL Core Solutions (RW-CS) has a European scope. Key stakeholders are based on different countries. You will be working with internal and external stakeholders.

Internal stakeholders: Operating company Marketing & Development team, RW-CS departments of Supply Chain, and sales teams, Group Development and local OPCO resources

External stakeholders: Laboratories, notified bodies and other suppliers, professional associations and organisms, customers

In the context of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) within the European area, the Project Manager is working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver cutting-edge solutions that meet the specific needs of our European industrial partners and clients.

The Project Manager is supporting the innovation pipeline by identifying and developing new systems and solutions that leverage the unique performance benefits of stone wool.

This role involves managing innovative projects encompassing products, systems, and services, while consistently thinking outside the box to drive creative solutions.

The Project Manager is also ensuring that all innovations comply with relevant patents, norms, and standards, thereby safeguarding intellectual property and maintaining regulatory compliance.

This is the role

• At the crossroad of our Marketing and development Team and Group Development, ensure the translation of ideas and projects, identified by RW-CS organization and approved by the Management Team, into business cases (sales forecast, improvements, cost reductions …), to the development of new solutions (products and systems);

• Project management: create the steps and the corresponding milestones of innovation projects and identify the “Go/no Go” gates needed to run new development and/or product optimization

• In collaboration with the Public Affairs manager, add valuable technical propositions to strengthen our strategic pillars: develop connections with laboratories, suppliers (equipment, machines…) and the factories to test processes and products.

• Produce and make available the technical documentation for your portfolio to reduce the “Route to Market”

• Identify actionable levers that can increase technical performances

• Support Product Manager to adjust the portfolio according to new systems and technical improvements

• Benchmark of existing solutions / systems based on market and literature

• Translate solution performance expectation into stone wool specifications to fit with the system

• Interface with machine / industrial process suppliers for the integration of the stone wool in the final system

• Responsible for the deliverables and timeline of the projects managed agreed with the Public Affairs & innovation manager

This is who you are

• Industry passionate

• Experience with project management: process and documentation

• Building physics knowledge

• Pragmatic, creative, product oriented, solution oriented

• 5+ years’ experience in project management role within construction or industry

• English language: fluently in speech and writing

• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills

• Strong lead with proactive mindset with ability to engage others, build internal and external network and share relevant information

• Good digital working knowledge: from Microsoft Office to Social Network

• Team worker in an international environment

• Planning and organising, learning ability, oral communication, tenacity, initiative, result orientation

• It will be considered as a plus: good knowledge of sustainability and environmental issues and European energy regulation and transition regulations, knowledge of foreign languages (German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, French…), international experience, basic understanding of business financials and sstrategic thinking, entrepreneurship and negotiation

This is what we offer

A full‑time permanent employment contract.

Salary level: 45.000-50.000 yearly gross salary

CCNL applied: Per i lavoratori della piccola e media industria dei settori chimica, concia e settori accorpati, plastica e gomma, abrasivi, ceramica e vetro, ( Unione nazionale piccola e media industria chimica, conciaria, materie plastiche, gomma, vetro, ceramica e prodotti affini – UNIONCHIMICA, Confederazione italiana della piccola e media industria – CONFAPI e FILCTEM-CGIL, FEMCA-CISL, UILTEC-UIL).

20 days of annual leave + 10 additional days of leave per year. Health insurance in accordance with the national collective labour agreement (CCNL). Corporate welfare programme. Paid time off for medical visits (20 hours per year). Training programmes and courses that support your personal and professional development, as well as support from experienced colleagues.

We are a purpose-driven, sustainable, and people-focused company built on three strong pillars

Sustainability & Responsibility – every role helps create a better tomorrow.
Collaborative Culture – together, we innovate and succeed.
Career Growth & Stability – your growth meets the stability of a company founded in 1937.

Interested? Apply today. Rock the future!