Are you our next Project Manager?
Are you an experienced Project Manager or product development professional looking to take the next step in driving complex engineering programs? We’re seeking a proactive leader with strong execution skills and a passion for accelerating sustainable innovation.
What drives us at Schneider Electric?
For us, impact isn’t just a term paraded across posters or social media; it’s encoded into our culture. After all, Schneider makes companies, infrastructure, buildings, homes, data centers, and entire industries more efficient and sustainable. There’s a reason why we’re consistently ranked among the most sustainable companies in the world. Here, you can pursue your dream career while actively making a long-term, positive impact on the planet.
With us, you’ll contribute to tackling the climate crisis head-on, and accelerating the energy transition the planet urgently needs. What’s more, we help tens of millions of people in underserved communities gain access to energy and education — so you’re making the world a fairer place, too. You’ll sit among colleagues with vastly different personal and professional backgrounds, all united by a vision of a better world.
Welcome to your workplace
You’ll be based at Schneider Electric’s R&D Innovation Site in Lund — a dynamic hub for cutting-edge development in energy management and automation. The site brings together cross-functional teams in a collaborative, high-tech environment designed to foster innovation, creativity, and continuous learning. With modern labs, agile workspaces, and a strong focus on sustainability, it’s the perfect place to grow your career.
What you’ll do
- Lead program and project execution for our fire and security software offering
- Deliver with Precision: Ensure timely, high-quality delivery with high sense of ownership and accountability for the product portfolio.
- Ownership of full life‑cycle delivery for complex, multi‑disciplinary engineering programs (requirements definition → architecture → development → testing → industrialization → launch).
- Collaborate Globally: Work across functions in a large, global matrix organization, adapting to time zones as needed. Foster a positive collaborative working environment.
- Being the driving force, highlight problems with the right nuance and simultaneously be mindful of our culture to put people first.
- Having full execution responsibility to meet budget, time plan and quality objectives and communicate efficiently to stakeholders
- Engage with state‑of‑the‑art Fire detection and Access control technologies—including Fire Detection & Access Control softwares and integrations with 3rd party systems —while providing project leadership in a rapidly evolving market that delivers significant positive environmental impact.
Essential for the role
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in project/ program management
- Preference for Advanced Degree and/or Project Management certificate
- Experience leading the end-to-end delivery of new software platforms, from requirements definition and architecture alignment through development, deployment, and commercial release.
- Demonstrated experience managing the continuous development and enhancement of existing software platforms, including regular release cycles, feature expansions, performance improvements, and technology upgrades.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional teams including Software Engineering, Product Management, QA, UX, DevOps, Cybersecurity, and System Integration teams.
- (Preferred) Demonstrated experience working with Fire Detection & Fire Alarm systems, Access Control, Video Management Systems (VMS), integrations with Building Management System (BMS), third-party APIs and SDKs, related security technologies and applicable standards.
- (Preferred) Experience working within Fire & Life Safety, Access Control, Physical Security, Smart Buildings, Building Automation, or related regulated industries is highly preferred.
- xperience working with cross functional globally distributed teams, including R&D, QA, supply chain, and manufacturing partners across multiple time zones. Demonstrated ability to drive alignment, facilitate technical decision-making, and manage cross-cultural communication.
- You demonstrate excellent people skills with high level of self-awareness
- Structure as a personal strength to build plans, takes decisions based on time aspects, create clarity and provide right amount of structure to make the team successful.
Location and Language requirements
- Based in or willing to relocating to Lund, Sweden.
- Language skills: Fluent advanced English (Swedish is a plus)
Why Schneider Electric?
- Work on meaningful projects that contribute to a sustainable future in a market with high organic growth
- Hybrid work model and flexible hours
- Inclusive, supportive and diverse work culture with people-first culture
- Global career development opportunities
- Competitive compensation and benefits tailored to the region
- Schneider Electric is an equal‑opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and identities
Where can I find out more?
- About Schneider Electric: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbldHPFltQQ
- We are proudly #1 in the World’s Most Sustainable Corporation 2025
- Please study our product ranges SpaceLogic and EasyLogic Automation servers and Room controllers on our webpage se.com
