Senior Project Manager (German speaking, JR808)

Eleks; Berlin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Eleks seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead a cross-functional digital transformation for a German hospital project. You will own PMO operations, manage scope, milestones, risks, and budget, and coordinate distributed teams across IT, UX/UI, and business units.

Requirements include 5+ years as Senior PM in digital/web/CMS projects, 3+ years as Scrum Master/Agile Coach, strong German (C1) and English, and hands-on Jira/Confluence/MS Project/Miro experience. Expect ~10 on-site Magdeburg meetings.

Qualifications

• Five+ years as Senior Project Manager in complex digital/web/CMS projects.
• Three+ years as Scrum Master or Agile Coach.
• Experience with change management and organizational transformation initiatives.
• Experience delivering agile, traditional, and hybrid projects.
• Solid knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, or similar methodologies.
• Experience in sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, backlog management, and agile reporting.
• Experience in schedule, budget, quality, risk, dependency, and escalation management.
• Experience leading interdisciplinary, distributed teams.
• Strong communication with execs, stakeholders, IT, and vendors.
• Hands-on with Jira, Confluence, MS Project, and Miro.
• Business-fluent German (C1) and very good English.
• Reliable availability during CET/CEST core hours.
• Willingness for ~10 on-site client meetings in Magdeburg.

Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for PMO operations and coordination of project teams.
• Single point of contact for the customer.
• Create and maintain project, milestone, and communication plans.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, quality, resources, and dependencies.
• Maintain RAID log and ensure proactive risk management.
• Coordinate collaboration across client, business, UX/UI, BA, Dev, QA, DevOps, and others.
• Facilitate sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Ensure transparent, iterative project progress.
• Lead daily status meetings and weekly status reports.
• Coordinate status and escalation meetings with stakeholders.
• Oversee requirements, decisions, acceptance, and releases.
• Support adoption of new processes and systems.
• Ensure compliance with contractual, regulatory, data protection, and security rules.
• Participate in on-site meetings in Magdeburg.

Skills

Senior PM experience

Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Change management

Hybrid/project delivery

Scrum/Kanban

Agile ceremonies

Risk/Dependencies

Cross-functional teams

Executive stakeholder comms

Jira/Confluence

MS Project

Miro

German (C1)

English (fluent)

On-site meetings availability

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft Project

Miro

Job description

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

ABOUT PROJECT

the company 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.

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