Head of Project Management Enteral Nutrition (m/f/d)

Lead the projects that bring enteral nutrition from development to launch. Based in Bad Homburg and reporting directly to the Head of R&D Enteral Nutrition, you will lead our global project portfolio and an international Project Management team across Germany, India and Mexico. Turn strategic priorities into clear plans, empower your team and deliver on quality, timelines and budgets.

Your Responsibilities

• Shape an integrated global Enteral Nutrition project portfolio, translating priorities into resource-balanced plans and clear recommendations for portfolio decisions.
• Drive delivery from project initiation through development, industrialization and launch readiness to closure, ensuring agreed scope, quality, timelines and budgets.
• Lead and develop Project Managers across Germany, India and Mexico, strengthening accountability, capabilities and collaboration across sites.
• Align R&D, commercial, medical, regulatory, quality, manufacturing and enabling functions to resolve dependencies and resource constraints early.
• Own consolidated project-budget planning and control with Finance and project sponsors, providing reliable forecasts and taking corrective action within delegated authority.
• Establish consistent project standards, risk management and reporting, giving leadership clear visibility of progress, trade-offs and decisions needed.
• Improve delivery predictability through lessons learned, targeted process improvements and timely recovery plans for projects at risk.

Your Qualifications

• A degree in food science, engineering, natural sciences, business or a related discipline, or an equivalent relevant qualification.
• Extensive, proven experience leading complex international product-development programs and portfolios from development through industrialization and launch; food industry or FMCG experience strongly preferred, with medical nutrition experience an advantage.
• Working knowledge of food or nutritional product development, including formulation, packaging, scale-up, technology transfer and manufacturing launch requirements.
• Proven line-management experience with Project Managers and geographically distributed teams, combining coaching with clear accountability and cross-cultural leadership.
• Experience managing substantial project budgets, with strong financial judgement and confidence in forecasting, business cases and portfolio data.
• Strong portfolio and program management skills, including stage-gate governance, integrated planning, critical-path analysis, capacity planning, risk management and change control, supported by measurable delivery improvements and experience recovering challenged projects.
• Confident use of project and portfolio management tools, financial reporting and management dashboards; a recognized project-management certification such as PMP, IPMA or equivalent is preferred.
• Fluent business English, clear executive communication and the ability to influence across functions; willingness to collaborate across time zones and travel internationally as required. Additional languages are an advantage.

Why Join Fresenius Kabi?

• Connect your project expertise with a meaningful purpose: help bring medical nutrition products from development to launch.
• Influence global portfolio priorities across Germany, India and Mexico, with a direct reporting line to the Head of R&D Enteral Nutrition.
• Take on a broad leadership remit that brings together international team development, portfolio delivery and consolidated project-budget responsibility.
• Shape how the global Project Management organization works, with scope to strengthen delivery standards, cross-site collaboration and decision-making.

Ready to make an impact?

Bring your leadership and portfolio expertise to Fresenius Kabi. Apply now and help turn our global Enteral Nutrition priorities into successful launches.