Project Management Officer – Transformation & Strategy M/F

Founded in 2003, Novae Restauration SA is a key player in the concession catering sector in Switzerland. With 35,000 meals cooked and served daily across more than 85 sites, the company counts among its clients large corporations, renowned institutions, as well as schools and medico-social establishments.

Advocates of taste, its 800 employees offer a unique culinary experience thanks to quality products. Proximity, passion, commitment and excellence are the core values upheld for our clients and our employees.

Recognised for its nutritional expertise, its commitment to sustainable development and its purchasing policy favouring short supply chains and partnerships with local producers, Novae has developed a virtuous, responsible and committed ecosystem, and a strong corporate culture.

A subsidiary of the Sodexo Group, Novae benefits from management autonomy in Switzerland while having access to a wide network of expertise, innovations and digital solutions.

To strengthen our competitiveness, we are consolidating our organisation with the creation of a central role, an expert in managing strategic projects, capable of supporting the evolution of the Novae model from vision to deployment in our restaurants and with our clients. We are looking for a

PMO Transformation & Strategy M/F

Your mission: You will lead structuring projects, support teams through change, contribute to the modernisation of our tools and practices, and support our competitiveness in the Swiss market.

Your responsibilities:

You will transform a vision into reality — in our restaurants, with our clients, and at the heart of our teams.

Reporting to general management, you will perform your role transversally with all departments, our restaurants, our clients and the Sodexo teams.

• Transformation of Novae processes

Drive and embody the vision for the evolution of the Novae model to strengthen our competitiveness in the Swiss market. Evolve our practices, tools and ways of working to modernise our operations, digitalise our processes, enhance our culinary excellence, improve the client and employee experience, and support growth and competitiveness.

Adapt solutions to the realities of collective catering in Switzerland, taking into account regional specificities, client expectations and operational constraints.

Preserve the Novae DNA: Culinary excellence, proximity, personalisation, quality, sustainability, autonomy

• Strategic management

Structure and maintain the strategic roadmap
Prioritise projects, manage risks, resources and dependencies
Prepare steering committees and ensure clear reporting to General Management

• Change management

Support field teams and clients through transformations
Develop adoption, communication and training plans
Ensure coherence between Romandy and German-speaking Switzerland

• Digital & AI transformation, business tools

Identify and deploy digital solutions adapted to collective catering
Work closely with IT and Sodexo teams
Contribute to the integration of AI in our tools and processes

• Commercial support & innovation

Participate in tender presentations
Structure differentiating value propositions
Bring an innovation / digital / process vision
Be an Ambassador of Novae’s values and services.
Stay informed through continuous monitoring of market developments and our main competitors

We offer you:

Do you want to play a key role in the transformation of a Swiss company recognised for its culinary excellence, customisation, proximity and sustainability? Do you wish to grow within an agile, human-sized structure while benefiting from the strength of an international group? Then this position is for you.

Also:

• a strategic role as a member of management, autonomous with direct impact on the ground and with our clients.
• a stimulating, innovative and evolving environment within a caring workplace based on our 3 values: Commitment, Proximity and Passion
• a collaborative, friendly work environment valuing human and professional skills
• the opportunity to contribute to the development of CSR commitments
• an incentive salary and attractive benefits, including mobility solutions covered

Based at our headquarters in Gland with high mobility to our subsidiary in Zürich and across all our establishments.

Your skills and talents:

A transversal leader, solution-oriented, experienced in strategic projects for over 5 years, with a strong digital & AI appetite, comfortable with IT.

At ease both in strategy and operations, you are able to unite, influence and carry complex projects through to adoption.

Business vision (P&L, performance, trade-offs)

Higher education (HEC, HES, engineer, business, management, digital or equivalent).

Knowledge of the Swiss market, you speak French and English (spoken/written), German (Swiss-German) would be an asset.

Passionate about catering, epicurean, adaptable and curious about the entire food sector and convinced by sustainable development.

Strong interpersonal and commercial skills (client meetings, commercial presentations, transversal management, etc.)