Project Manager (F/M/D)

North; Kiel; Hybrid; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Hybrid Working

Extended Holidays

Pet-friendly Office

Equipment you actually want to work

€60,000–€80,000 gross per year

Zusammenfassung

North in Kiel seeks an experienced Project Manager (F/M/D) to take ownership of a customer project from handover to acceptance and carry it through to operations. You will plan, steer, and serve as the customer’s main contact, coordinating a multidisciplinary team across software, hardware, and services in a hybrid work setting with required customer visits.

Fluency in German and English is essential, as is experience managing external customers.

Qualifikationen

• You have carried responsibility for projects with external customers — not supported them, carried them.
• You can build a project plan that survives contact with a real project and keep it current against resistance.
• You see the commercial consequences: what a delay costs, what a scope increase costs, who pays for it.
• You write clearly. A decision that is not documented did not happen.
• German and English, both fluent; our team works in English, many customers do not.

Aufgaben

• Takeover a customer project at handover from Sales and run it through to final acceptance and transition into operations.
• Build a project plan that reflects reality—schedule, resources, budget—and keep it current as reality changes.
• Lead your project team professionally; there is no disciplinary reporting line into this role.
• Prepare and run the decision points of your project: handover, release, acceptance; deliver both documents.
• Manage change orders; additional work arises on the basis of an order, not goodwill.
• Escalate early; a risk you report three weeks before it lands is the same risk on the day it lands.
• Keep project data accurate—status, effort, forecast; this data feeds weekly and monthly leadership reports.
• Be the operational counterpart for your customer’s project management, including conversations nobody enjoys.
• Feed learnings back into our delivery process where it works and where it does not.

Kenntnisse

Project management

Client management

Project planning

German and English

Written communication

Tools

Asana

Jobbeschreibung

Your mission

north.iobuildsandoperatesthe Ocean DataPlatform(ODP) and the Ocean Data Processing Engine (ODPE) —togetheran Ocean Data Warehousethatletsmaritime,defenceandpublic-sectororganisationsmanage andprocessgeospatialandsensordataatscale.

Theprojectsthatdeliverthesesystemstocustomersaregettinglarger. Software,hardwareandcustomeroperationsarrivein the same plan, andthatplanhasto hold.WearebuildingupourPMO androllingoutonedeliveryprocessacrossallcustomerprojects—definedphases,defineddecisionpoints,definedartefacts.

AsProject Manager (F/M/D)youtakeonecustomerprojectathandoverand carry it toacceptance.Youplan it,yousteerit, andyouarethepersonthecustomercallswhensomethingmoves.

Reportingline:Youreportto the Chief Project Management Officer (CPMO).

Location:Kiel. Hybridworking,withcustomervisitsas theprojectrequires.

KeyResponsibilities

• TakeoveracustomerprojectathandoverfromSales andrunitthroughto finalacceptanceandtransitionintooperations.
• Buildaprojectplanthatreflectsreality—schedule,resources, budget — andkeepitcurrentwhenrealitychanges.
• Leadyourprojectteamprofessionally.Thereisnodisciplinaryreportinglineintothisrole.
• Prepareandrunthedecisionpointsofyourproject:handover, release,acceptance.Eachoneneedsadecisionand adocument.Youdeliverboth.
• Manage changeorders. Additionalworkhappenson thebasisof anorder, not ongoodwill.
• Escalateearly. Ariskyoureportthreeweeksbeforeitlandsisadecision; the sameriskon thedayitlandsisdamage.
• Keepprojectdataaccurate—status,effort,forecast. Thisdatafeedsourweeklydeliveryreportingand themonthlyreportto theleadershipteam.Ifitiswrong,westeerwrong.
• Be the operationalcounterpartforyourcustomer'sprojectmanagement,includingin theconversationsnobodyenjoys.
• Feedwhatyoulearnin theprojectbackintoourdeliveryprocess—whereitworksandwhereitdoesnot.

Your profile

Weshapetherolearoundtheperson.Threeyearsofprojectexperienceortendecideswhichprojectsyouget, notwhetherwetalk.

Qualifications& Experience

• Youhavecarriedresponsibilityforprojectswithexternalcustomers— notsupportedthem,carriedthem.

• Youcanbuildaprojectplanthatsurvivescontactwitha realproject, andyoukeepitcurrentagainstresistance.
• Youseethecommercialconsequence:whatadelaycosts,whatascopeincreasecosts, whopaysfor it.
• Youwriteclearly. Adecisionthatisnotdocumenteddidnot happen.
• German and English,bothfluent.Ourteamworksin English; a largepartofourcustomersdo not.
• A security clearance (Sicherheitsüberprüfung nach SÜG) may be required for this position and therefore your eligibility is a key criteria.

DesiredCompetencies

• Experience inprojectsthatcombinesoftwareandhardware.
• Workingknowledgeof Asanaorcomparabletooling.
• Familiaritywithgeospatial,hydrographicoroceanographicdataisoptional.

Whatthisroleisnot

• Not aprocessrole. Thedeliveryprocessisownedby the PMO.Youworkinsideit andlearnit on theproject—youarenot theoneintroducingit.
• Not areportingjob.Ifyoulikebuildingstatusslidesbutavoidtheconversationbehindthem,thiswill notwork.

Why us?

• Hybrid Working—homeofficeorourKieloffice,yourcall.
• Extended Holidays— 30daysof annualleave.
• Pet-friendlyOffice.
• Equipmentyouactuallywanttoworkwith.
• Salary: €60,000–80,000grossperyear,dependingonexperienceand theprojectsyoutakeon.
• Thestabilityof anestablishedpioneeringeospatialandoceandatamanagementcombinedwiththeenergyanddriveof astart-upculture.
• Shortpathsto theleadershipteam. Anescalationheredoesnottakethreeweeks.