Job Description

For our Digital Transformation Projects

Are you ready for new challenges in an international and innovation-driven environment where you can make a difference? Apply and join our team, be curious, learn, grow, and develop your career together with us. We promise: you are in for a special ride!

The location of the role is in: Contagem

About the job

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager for our Digital Transformation department to lead the successful delivery of strategic transformation initiatives across the South America. You will be responsible for managing a small team of project managers and driving a complex cross-functional program involving multiple business functions, countries, as well as internal and external stakeholders.

In this role, you will manage complex dependencies, navigate ambiguity, proactively mitigate risks, and drive decision-making in a fast-paced environment. You will work closely with business leaders, project teams, external partners, and executive stakeholders to deliver sustainable business outcomes and value realization across the organization.

You will be working in a diverse, dynamic and performance-driven team with a strong team spirit and humour.

In addition, your tasks will include

• Lead and develop a small team of regional Project Managers.
• Establish effective governance, performance tracking, and escalation mechanisms.
• Proactively identify risks, remove obstacles, and drive recovery actions when required.
• Foster a culture of ownership, resilience, pragmatism, and continuous improvement.
• Track delivery against scope, timeline, cost, benefits, and quality using clear, practical KPIs.

• Ensure the process has: Clear acceptance criteria, Named actions owners, validators and approvers, Defined evidence expectations and tracking
• Maintain a clean flow from executed → validated → signed off → closed, calling out risks immediately when this breaks.
• Track cross-system and business dependencies (finance close, payroll, inventory, critical operations).
• Lead defect and issue triage sessions; drive owners to resolution and retest.
• Engage senior stakeholders directly to unblock decisions, not just inform them.
• Stay close to data readiness topics that threaten execution.

About You

You are an experienced transformation leader who thrives in complex and demanding environments. You combine strategic thinking with a hands-on execution mindset and are able to move seamlessly between executive discussions and operational problem-solving.

You are resilient, pragmatic and results-oriented, with the ability to maintain momentum and focus under pressure. You create clarity in ambiguity, proactively challenge the status quo, and drive teams towards ambitious goals.

With your strong leadership and communication skills, you build trust across functions and organizational levels. You are not afraid to take difficult decisions, escalate issues when required and hold stakeholders accountable for commitments. You understand how to balance competing priorities while keeping sight of the overall transformation objectives and business value.

What we expect from you in terms of

Education

• A Master’s degree in business management/administration, IT, finance or similar
• Proficiency in Microsoft applications (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)

Languages

• English – Proficient/Fluent
• Any other language is considered as an asset

Work Experience

• Demonstrated ability to operate in the detail while keeping the big picture.
• Strong hands-on experience working with IT teams, different suppliers and system integrators.

Why you should work for RHI Magnesita

You will perform in a customer focused environment. We live innovation and appreciate an open and pragmatic way of working. From our leaders we expect to drive our further transformation, to engage our people and to give direction. RHI Magnesita is a company where you can be yourself and where not only your resume and experience, but also your personality counts. We aim for global consistency in compensation policies, but also consider local common practices. RHI Magnesita is committed to support its employees through various means to enable the best possible performance.

We offer

Salary and benefits are aligned with market trends for companies of our size and industry, including health insurance, bonus, and meal card. Our benefits package also focuses on well-being and work–life balance, such as extended maternity and paternity leave, emotional support programs, Wellhub, among others.

Sounds like you?

At RHI Magnesita everyone is welcome and encouraged to apply. We evaluate applications based on required qualifications and regardless of gender identity, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation, marital or partnership status. At RHI Magnesita we appreciate the value of diverse teams.

About RHI Magnesita

We are the acknowledged technology leader in the refractory industry. Our company is defined by people. We are committed to diversity and know that multiple approaches, perspectives and backgrounds fuel creativity and innovation. It is our aspiration to build a workplace culture where everyone feels valued, engages, and can enjoy a truly inclusive environment and the diverse voices of our employees are heard. We foster a collaborative culture that cherishes ideas and determination to add value for our customers. Our leadership style encourages open-mindedness, reliability, pragmatism, and innovation.

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RHI Magnesita | The driving force of the refractory industry

RHI Magnesita is the global leader in high-grade refractory products, systems, and services for the steel, cement, glass, and non-ferrous metals industries.