Project management in a B2B technology company – Buhler.
You’ll love this episode if you’re interested in sustainability, interacting with people, and like running projects.
This is another amazing technology episode, but in a slightly different sector - the food and mobility sector.
In this episode we talk to Jay, who is a Project Manager at Buhler.
His main mission at Buhler is to reduce carbon emissions make them more sustainable – it’s pretty cool.
Jay comes from a civil engineering background, and we touch upon the different routes in and why he chose tech over engineering.
So who are Buhler? Buhler, are a huge B2B technology company. 2 Billion people ever day are fed by technology which has been created by Buhler, and over 1 billion people are moved by the mobility technology created by them.
Jay’s job within Buhler is a Project Manager (PM).
He runs two projects:
1. Making their technology more sustainable by reducing carbon emissions which he talks about in more depth.
2. Helping an internal movement called Generation B, where Buhler can create an environment where people want to work.
Jay describes his job as a great mix of social and technical too. He’s in a lot of meetings, interacting with people, understanding their perspective, working in a team to drive initiatives forward.
Jay’s best advice:
- Narrow the pool of companies with a great sense of purpose, who are trying to achieve something which is worth doing.
- Look at the companies that invest in people. Check out companies who are part of this;
- One Young World - https://www.oneyoungworld.com/
- World Business Council for Sustainable development (over 200 companies in this) - https://www.wbcsd.org/
- World Economic Forum - https://www.weforum.org/
- If you’re unsure what to do, go to a start-up, build a not-for-profit, you’ll learn so much.
- Think long term and don’t rush, but don’t waste time
Buhler - https://www.buhlergroup.com
Please note
A project manager position is not limited to the tech industry. It can be found in all sorts of industries, and sectors, and a lot of the skills are transferable. Their role is to, quite simply, manage projects within their company, and these can be anything. For Jay, these are sustainability and creating the best working environment.
You could be a project manager in a fashion brand, drinks brand, sports brand, a bank, the list is endless. Just please note that becoming a PM is not limited to tech.
If this is something that sounds interesting to you, you’re probably more suited to a PM role, rather than something more technical. But you can make that decision yourself.
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