Senior Project Manager (German speaking, JR808) at ELEKS · Berlin

ELEKS Project Management Office is looking for a Senior Project Manager in Poland, Croatia, or Germany.

ABOUT PROJECT

ELEKS is starting a new collaboration with a leading hospital in Germany. The project focuses on the digital transformation of the hospital’s public website and intranet, including the introduction of a new content management system, migration of existing content, and transition into ongoing service operations.

REQUIREMENTS

• At least five years of proven professional experience as a Senior Project Manager in complex digital, web, portal, or CMS projects.
  • At least three years of practical experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach.
  • Proven experience in change management and supporting organizational transformation initiatives.
  • Experience managing agile, traditional, and hybrid project delivery models.
  • Solid practical knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, or comparable agile methodologies.
  • Experience with sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, backlog management, and agile reporting formats.
  • Experience in schedule, budget, quality, risk, dependency, and escalation management.
  • Experience leading and coordinating interdisciplinary and geographically distributed teams.
  • Strong communication skills with executive management, project leadership, business stakeholders, IT, data protection, information security, and external service providers.
  • Hands-on experience with Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project (or similar planning tools), and Miro.
  • Business-fluent German language skills, minimum C1 level.
  • Very good English language skills for collaboration with international project teams.
  • Reliable availability during the agreed CET/CEST core working hours.
  • Willingness and confirmed availability for approximately ten on-site meetings with the client in Magdeburg during the project duration.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Overall responsibility for operational project management and coordination of all involved project teams.
  • Central point of contact for the customer/client.
  • Creation and maintenance of the project management plan, milestone plan, and communication plan.
  • Management of scope, schedule, budget, quality, resources, and dependencies.
  • Establishment and continuous maintenance of the RAID log (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies).
  • Coordination of collaboration between the client, business departments, UX/UI, business analysis, development, quality assurance, DevOps, and other stakeholders.
  • Preparation and facilitation of sprint planning sessions, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other agile ceremonies.
  • Ensuring transparent and iterative project progress.
  • Conducting daily internal status alignment meetings.
  • Preparation of a weekly written status report.
  • Preparation and facilitation of status meetings, steering committee meetings, and escalation meetings.
  • Stakeholder, risk, change, issue, and escalation management.
  • Management of requirements, decision-making, acceptance, and release processes.
  • Coordination of quality assurance, user acceptance testing (UAT), approvals, go-live, and hypercare activities.
  • Supporting the organization in introducing new processes, systems, and ways of working.
  • Ensuring compliance with contractual, regulatory, data protection, and security requirements.
  • Participation in required on-site meetings in Magdeburg.