Innovation Project Manager (5610)
Requisition ID 5610
- Posted 04/13/2026
- Group Innovation
- Innovation
- Pont-Eveque
- Posting Country (5)
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You have a choice of where you want to work!
We invite you along on our journey to Purify and Protect, with Every Fiber, for a Sustainable World. We aim to attract, retain, and energize passionate people, like you, by investing in your professional development and providing opportunities for personal growth.
Do your values align with ours? Accountability, Growth mindset, One team, Care and a fair and inclusive work environment for everyone, everywhere!
We strive to meet the highest standards of corporate citizenship by protecting the health and safety of our team, safeguarding the environment, and creating a long-lasting, positive impact on the communities where we do business. Are you with us?!?
About the opportunity
Ahlstrom is accelerating its growth through breakthrough innovation. We're looking for an experienced project manager capable of delivering complex innovation projects.
In this role, you will lead complex, cross-functional innovation projects that drive our strategic agenda in safe and sustainable specialty materials. You will collaborate across R D, Commercial, Operations, and external partners to deliver impactful, market-driven solutions.
This is an exciting opportunity with high visibility, strategic influence, and future leadership potential as we continue to strengthen our global innovation capabilities.
Purpose of the job / Position description
Lead the execution, coordination, and delivery of complex innovation projects with significant business relevance.
Drive project strategy, planning, alignment, and decision-making across technical and commercial functions.
Lead multidisciplinary teams in the role of project manager and ensure effective collaboration between R D, Marketing & Sales, Operations, Procurement, and Business Development.
Influence innovation governance through preparation and facilitation of stage-gate and steering committee reviews. Main responsibilities
Lead and manage innovation projects from early feasibility to implementation, ensuring timely delivery and measurable outcomes.
Develop robust project plans, business cases, budgets, timelines, and risk mitigation strategies.
Coordinate and influence cross-functional teams globally, ensuring alignment around project goals and milestones.
Facilitate effective decision‑making by synthesizing complex inputs into clear options, recommendations, and implication
Navigate competing priorities and interests across teams, driving alignment and timely resolution of issues
Ensure innovation projects are grounded in commercial logic and contribute measurably to performance, competitiveness, or growth.
Communicate project status, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
Conduct structured project reviews and ensure adherence to innovation governance processes.
Contribute to improving project management methodologies by embedding learnings from past projects into governance standards and review cycles
Qualifications
Work experience needed
Minimum 5-8 years of experience in project management, preferably in industrial B2B and innovation/product development environments.
Demonstrated experience leading complex, multi-year, or high uncertainty projects in a matrixed, multinational context.
Primary competencies (mapped to job role)
Strong leadership and project management capabilities.
Excellent interpersonal, communication, and senior stakeholder management skills.
Strategic thinking with strong business and financial acumen.
Ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across functions.
Proactive, self-driven, and comfortable operating with ambiguity.
Fluent in English; ability to work effectively in a multicultural organization.
Additional competencies/ Other requirements
Travel may be required.
Team-oriented, proactive, transparent and collaborative working style
Ahlstrom is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Equal opportunity is a sound and just concept to which we are firmly bound. Ahlstrom will not engage in discrimination against, or harassment of, any person employed or seeking employment with our company based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, non-disqualifying disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.
About Us. Ahlstrom is a global leader in combining fibers into sustainable specialty materials. Our purpose is to Purify and Protect, with Every Fiber, for a Sustainable World. We aim to be the Preferred Sustainable Specialty Materials Company for all our stakeholders. Our Filtration and Life Sciences, Food and Consumer Packaging, and Protective Materials segments, along with the Performance Materials Cluster, address global trends with safe and sustainable solutions. Our net sales in 2025 amounted to EUR 2.9 billion and we employ some 7,000 people.
Read more at www.ahlstrom.com.
