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Senior Project Manager, Process Transformation

Danfoss
Danfoss Salary
Minneapolis, MN Full Time
POSTED ON 1/2/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/1/2026
The Impact You'll Make
As our Senior Project Manager, Process Transformation, you’ll play a key role in leading and supporting process transformation projects within Sales and Engineering operations, ensuring global alignment across functions, divisions, and business units in Danfoss Power Solutions. Being a global role, it offers the chance for candidates across the globe to join our team. So, we welcome you to apply no matter where you are sitting right now.
Your impact? You’ll optimize quality, responsiveness, and efficiency in our sales-related processes, helping us stay fast, world-class, and customer-focused. Success means delivering tangible results that strengthen customer loyalty, increase profitable sales and reduce cost-to-serve.

You’ll collaborate with Divisional/Multi-Divisional Sales and cross-functional teams, acting as a consultant and project lead, and take ownership of process standardization, transformation, and automation, helping us move toward a more efficient and innovative future.

What You’ll Be Doing
  • Lead process transformation projects to standardize and optimize sales-related processes globally.
  • Act as a consultant expert, supporting process improvement initiatives and coaching stakeholders.
  • Contribute to developing best-practice tools and processes within the End-to-End Process Team.
  • Identify and execute projects with high Return On Investment, focused on increasing profitable sales and reducing cost-to-serve.
  • Facilitate global virtual teams and ensure strong stakeholder engagement throughout transformation initiatives.

What We're Looking For
  • 3–5 years of experience in a global sales organization, with a proven track record of successfully leading process transformation and continuous improvement projects.
  • At least 2 years of experience working with global teams; direct management experience is a significant advantage.
  • Deep understanding of executing global commercial strategies and sales and commercial operations processes, ideally within mixed OEM/distribution channel models.
  • Proven project management skills, with demonstrated ability to manage complex, cross functional projects from initiation to completion .
  • Familiarity with quality management systems (e.g., ISO 9001, IATF 16 949) and their practical application to sales and commercial processes.
  • Proven ability to conduct current state analysis, design future-state processes, and develop tactical implementation plans as part of a structured project management approach.
  • Excellent ability to connect with and coach people at all levels, with strong stakeholder and change management capabilities.
  • Skilled in MS Office, MS Teams and familiar with digital platforms such as SAP ERP, Salesforce CRM, Teamcenter PLM.
  • Fluent in English; other languages are a plus.

For job-specific and/or technical enquiries, please contact Head of Process Transformation, Kenth Hedegaard Petersen at 45 29 60 78 81. For questions regarding the recruitment process please contact Talent Acquisition Partner, Johannes Brødsgaard-Bauer at 45 61611296.

What You'll Get from Us
  • We promote from within and support your learning with mentoring, training, and access to global opportunities.
  • You’ll have flexibility, autonomy, and support to do your best work while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Your well-being matters to us.
  • We strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are respected, and valued for who they are.
  • You’ll receive benefits like 13th salary, annual bonus, paid vacation, pension plans, personal insurance, and more. These vary by country and contract, but they’re worth asking about—we think they’re pretty great.

Ready to Make a Difference?
If this role excites you, we’d love to hear from you! Apply now to start the conversation and learn more about where your career can go with us.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.

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