Project Manager with Strong Operational Drive

Do you want to be a key player in shaping and establishing a local platform that drives global growth? The focus is on strengthening established small and medium-sized enterprises in Helsingborg. We are seeking a project manager with a strong operational drive – someone who not only leads the project forward but builds and drives its operational core. The role combines strategic leadership with practical implementation and involves comprehensive responsibility for creating, structuring, and optimizing daily operations. You will function as the project's operational engine – translating vision and strategy into effective work methods, sustainable routines, and measurable results, ensuring the project operates as a well-organized and results-oriented unit. In this role, you are responsible for building the operational structure, establishing processes, systems, and tools for planning, follow-up, and decision support, and driving daily work to coordinate resources and deliveries efficiently. You will develop and improve workflows, ensure clear division of responsibilities, follow up on goals, timelines, and budget, and resolve operational challenges along the way. Together with project owners and steering committee, you will translate strategy into concrete action, build a sustainable work method and team culture, and drive continuous improvement for long-term success. Qualifications: • Experience in project management or operational business development in roles such as operations manager or project manager • Ability to lead collaboration across sectoral boundaries (business, public sector, academia, civil society) • Experience from the business sector • Swedish language skills in speech and writing Meriting: • Experience with EU/publicly funded projects • Knowledge of state aid and EU reporting • Experience creating support structures targeted at small and medium-sized enterprises Tools we use: Teamtailor, GetAccept, Microsoft 365, Copilot, HubSpot Recruitment Process: Application -> Aptitude Test -> Interview -> Work Sample -> Group Interview and Feedback -> Reference Check Note that the final candidate will need to submit educational credentials and employment certificates Start Date: February 1, 2026 About Tillväxt Helsingborg: Tillväxt Helsingborg is a non-profit foundation that since 2014 has worked to reduce segregation and exclusion by strengthening small and medium-sized enterprises in Helsingborg and its surroundings. We offer growth support and networks to companies with 5-50 employees – a segment that creates the majority of new jobs. We are a small, committed team with high tempo and great passion for our mission – to get more people into work and create better conditions for companies to grow. Our daily work is varied, unpretentious, and filled with both strategic meetings and practical initiatives. We are located in creative spaces at Mindpark in the old Tretorn factory and work with trust-based work hours.