Senior Manager, PMO Sustainable Development, New business & Lobbying

About the role

BIC is accelerating a long-term transformation agenda to make sustainable development, circularity and new business models operational, scalable and economically viable across its categories.

We are looking for a Senior Manager, PMO Sustainable Development, New Business & Lobbying to act as a true transformation catalyst for this agenda. This is a senior, hands-on role designed to bring structure, pace, clarity and new ideas to one of BIC’s most strategic long-term priorities: turning circularity and sustainable development ambitions into concrete, industrially feasible and value-creating solutions.

The role will initially focus on supporting the ramp-up of the Lighter Sustainable Development plan, before helping adapt key learnings across Stationery, Shavers and Brushes. This is not a simple copy-paste exercise. Each category has its own products, materials, manufacturing constraints, quality requirements, business model challenges and stakeholder landscape.

This is also not a traditional reporting PMO role. The successful candidate will be expected to go beyond tracking actions and milestones. They will help structure complex problems, unlock blockers, simplify decision-making, challenge constructively, bring fresh thinking and create the conditions for teams to move faster and more effectively.

The role requires strong industrial understanding, transformation maturity, intellectual curiosity and the ability to influence without direct authority across functions, categories, plants and geographies.

Why this role matters

BIC has already built significant experience in circularity through the Lighter roadmap. This journey has involved several years of scientific research, industrial trials, external expertise, collection models, recycling and dismantling options, quality considerations and business model testing.

The next challenge is to accelerate, structure and scale this work while avoiding unnecessary delays and duplicated effort. The role will help ensure that BIC can learn from what has already been done, adapt the right principles to other categories, and build robust category-specific roadmaps for the future.

The mission is highly strategic: to help BIC prepare for the next decade by making sustainable development operational, scalable and economically viable.

Key responsibilities

Structure and animate the Sustainable Development transformation roadmap

You will help build and operationalize the project architecture required to manage a complex, multi-year transformation program.

This includes defining governance routines, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, decision points, budgets, documentation and progress tracking. You will help make sure that the roadmap is clear, actionable and robust enough for teams to progress over time.

Accelerate and stabilize the Lighter circularity roadmap

You will support the acceleration of the Lighter Sustainable Development plan, helping the team move from pilot stage towards broader deployment.

This includes coordinating workstreams linked to scientific research, collection, recycling, dismantling, revalorization, production integration, Quality-Control, industrial constraints and financial viability.

A key challenge will be to help verify that what works in pilot can work at scale, while anticipating risks, resource constraints and operational derailers as the roadmap expands.

Adapt circularity learnings across Stationery, Shavers and Brushes

You will help translate the Lighter experience into practical, category-specific transformation roadmaps.

This will require strong problem-solving capability, as each category brings a different level of complexity. Stationery, for example, has a much broader product range and may require a selective, phased approach. Shavers and Brushes will require their own analysis of feasibility, industrial constraints, dismantling, recycling and business model potential.

The role requires someone able to bring structure without oversimplifying, and new ideas without losing sight of operational reality.

Influence and mobilize without direct authority

You will animate a broad network of contributors across categories, plants, support functions, affiliates and transformation teams.

The role requires strong stakeholder management and the ability to bring people onboard without relying on hierarchy. You will need to build trust with technical, industrial, scientific, financial and commercial stakeholders, including people who may not initially be convinced by the topic.

You will help connect the project to what motivates different teams, create momentum, maintain engagement and ensure that complex workstreams continue to progress over a long project horizon.

Bring new ideas and challenge constructively

You will be expected to bring fresh thinking to the roadmap.

This means proposing better ways of working, identifying opportunities to accelerate, benchmarking ideas, challenging assumptions, connecting internal and external expertise, and helping teams find pragmatic solutions to problems that may not yet have obvious answers.

The right person will not simply ask, “Where are we on the plan?” They will help answer, “How can we move faster, smarter and with stronger impact?”

Create fluidity and unblock complex situations

A major part of the role will be to make life easier for the teams involved.

You will help take complex problems, break them down, structure options and bring clear recommendations. You will identify where teams are stuck, where decisions are needed, where resources are missing, and where dependencies need to be resolved.

The objective is not to become the “project police.” The objective is to create fluidity, support ownership, accelerate decisions and help teams move forward.

Support value creation and business model thinking

You will work closely with Finance and business stakeholders to ensure that the roadmap is not only environmentally relevant, but also operationally and financially credible.

This includes tracking assumptions, costs, benefits, risks and decision points, and supporting the development of circularity models that can become economically viable and value-accretive over time.

Support new business and lobbying coordination

You may support the initial screening of new business or M&A opportunities related to the team’s agenda, although integration is not in scope.

You may also support lobbying and external stakeholder coordination by organizing inputs, tracking priorities and ensuring alignment with internal project needs.

These dimensions are secondary to the core focus of the role: sustainable development, circularity and industrial transformation.

What success looks like

Success in this role means that BIC’s Sustainable Development and circularity portfolio is clearly structured, actively governed and moving forward with discipline, energy and business relevance.

In the first months, success will mean creating clarity: understanding what has been built through the Lighter roadmap, identifying what can be adapted to other categories, mapping stakeholders, structuring governance, clarifying risks and dependencies, and building a realistic transformation roadmap.

Over time, success will mean helping BIC move from pilots and concepts to scalable, category-specific circularity models that are industrially feasible, financially credible and aligned with the company’s long-term transformation agenda.

The role should enable teams to work more effectively, make decisions faster, anticipate blockers, stay engaged and avoid losing time through fragmented coordination.

Profile we are looking for

We are looking for a senior transformation PMO / program leader with strong industrial understanding and the ability to drive complex, cross-functional programs in a matrix organization.

You are likely to bring around 15 years of experience in project management, program management, transformation, industrial operations, manufacturing excellence, portfolio management, operations strategy or a related field.

You have worked in complex international environments and are comfortable managing multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, long-term timelines and technically complex topics.

You do not need to be a pure sustainability expert. What matters most is your ability to structure complex industrial transformation, learn quickly, bring ideas, engage stakeholders and turn ambition into execution. Experience or strong interest in sustainable development, circularity, decarbonization or new business models would be a strong advantage.

Key requirements

• Strong experience in transformation, PMO, program management or portfolio management within an industrial, manufacturing or operations environment.
• Real understanding of plant realities, manufacturing constraints, quality requirements and operational trade-offs.
• Ability to influence without direct authority across functions, categories, plants and geographies.
• Strong project management discipline, including governance, planning, risk management, dependency tracking, budget follow-up and decision preparation.
• Ability to structure complex problems and translate ambiguity into clear, actionable plans.
• Hands-on, pragmatic and comfortable going into detail.
• Ability to bring new ideas, challenge constructively and propose better ways of working.
• Strong communication, stakeholder animation and facilitation skills.
• Curiosity, learning agility and genuine interest in sustainable development and circularity.
• Ability to work autonomously, take ownership and come back with clear options and recommendations.
• Fluency in French and English.

Nice to have

• Experience in circularity, sustainable development, decarbonization or ESG transformation.
• Experience in recycling, materials, product end-of-life, industrial innovation or alternative business models.
• Exposure to Lean, Six Sigma, Black Belt, PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent methodologies.
• Experience with PMO tools such as MS Project, ServiceNow SPM, Power BI or similar.
• Experience in IT, digital transformation or industrial systems would be valuable.
• Exposure to M&A opportunity screening or lobbying / public affairs coordination.
• Portuguese or Spanish language skills.

Behaviours that will make the difference

You will succeed in this role if you are structured but not bureaucratic, ambitious but pragmatic, challenging but collaborative, and able to keep people engaged over a long transformation journey.

You will need to be comfortable with complexity, curious enough to learn new technical topics, and proactive enough to take problems in hand rather than waiting for direction.

This is a role for someone who enjoys solving difficult problems, connecting people, building structure where none exists, and helping an organization move from ambition to real operational impact.

The ideal candidate will bring energy, ideas and discipline.

BIC World is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly commit to hiring people with different backgrounds and experiences to help us build better products, make better decisions, and better serve our customers. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status, or similar characteristics. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.

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