Project Management

News update at Cicor: Project Management at Cicor Group!

Dear Colleagues

Project Management (IPMA Accreditation)

In 2024, Cicor launched a key strategic initiative with the introduction of a group-wide project management programme based on IPMA standards. The programme is available to participants across the organisation at both foundation and advanced levels, offering practical content to support the development of project management skills. In its first year, 36 colleagues took part – a promising start. For 2025, around 40 registrations have already been received. This is an encouraging sign that interest continues to grow and that project management is gaining increasing importance within Cicor.

This is a significant programme for the Company with participants from all regions, across multiple entities, with the objective to define a common language for managing individual projects and develop and train people in the most important processes and workflows. This is already happening with some participants now involved in applying their studies to real-life projects on site or cross-site activities.

In May the latest cohort were captured with Clemens Drilling, our external advisor leading the programmes. Tracy Squires, VP HR joined on behalf of the Cicor Leadership Team to share the strategic importance of the programme and to celebrate that this is already a success story with participants involved in projects on their own sites or multiple-site activity! Note: all participants volunteered for this to be taken 😊.

If you are interested in joining the PM programme, please don’t hesitate to contact alina.osterwalder@cicor.com or jana.schawalder@cicor.com for more information. If you have already registered, congratulations, and enjoy your PM journey!

Project Management Core Group

Let’s also mention, importantly, those colleagues who already hold PM roles within the Cicor Group or have PM as a wider responsibility and are now supporting this programme. Whatever your start, or status in Project Management, it’s great to see this community at Cicor growing!

It is also great that we have many of you, involved before the launch of the PM programme, involved in strategic projects. This shows the progress being made and the strategic importance of managing strategic activities across the Cicor Group in a more consistent way. This journey continues and we are excited to see the further development of new ways of working – the continued growth of the PM community – and to share where your experience and knowledge is being applied with great success!

What are the next steps?

We would like to take this opportunity to thank colleagues who are participating in both the PM Programme and PM Core Group. These are, and will continue to be, a strategic priority for the Company; to project manage in a consistent way with a new, Global community of PM practitioners.

These are exciting, new initiatives and, with the collaboration and engagement of colleagues from the various fields, we look forward to continuing to share progress and celebrate successes!