To be a Project Manager

When working as a brand manager your job includes being a project manager. In Orkla you have to manage different projects, everything from developing brand new products to creating campaigns within your portfolio of brands.

To run a project is very fun but in the same time rather tricky. You work with different divisions of the organisation and must be able to understand opposite interests and interconnect them. As a leader of a project you cannot understand every part. For example, I am not educated in how a machine creating cartons is built up, how to estimate time needed for washing a huge dough mixer, or which aroma from which supplier that is the most suitable for a specific cookie-recipes. That is why a group of people with different specialities is set up together.

As a project manager you cannot have control over every part of the project. That is quite frustrating in the beginning, not being able to understand and control each element of a project that you are responsible for, but you learn over time. You also get to know the team members better and better (of course) and different ways to work together, which is the funniest part!