Strategic Project & Escalation Manager (f/m/d)

Siemens Energy; Berlin; Hybride; EUR 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Company pension

Shareholder opportunity

Flexible working and remote options

Learning and development programs

Family-friendly offers

Résumé du poste

Siemens Energy is seeking a Strategic Project & Escalation Manager (f/m/d) to lead cross‑functional, high‑impact GIS and AIS projects across Europe. You will link project execution with business leadership, manage escalations, and drive transparent decision‑making in a fast‑paced environment.

Join a diverse Grid Technologies team in Berlin, contributing to delivery performance, customer success, and the energy transition.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Business Engineering, SCM, or a comparable discipline.
• Extensive experience in complex project management, program management, order execution, or related environment.
• Experience in project governance, stakeholder management, and executive communications.
• Fluency in German and English, written and spoken.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking in industrial/energy contexts.

Responsabilités

• Lead strategic cross-functional projects and support business transformation initiatives across Order Management Switchgears Europe.
• Coordinate the resolution of critical project escalations and drive actions to mitigate schedule, delivery, and execution risks.
• Establish transparency regarding project risks, opportunities, constraints, and priorities to support informed decision-making and a proactive escalation culture.
• Collaborate with Project Managers, Regional Leaders, and Senior Management to align project priorities, resource allocation, and business decisions.
• Analyze customer contracts and commercial commitments, and prepare decision materials, business cases, status reports, and management presentations.
• Facilitate alignment and solution development across Order Management, AIS, GIS, Logistics, Procurement, Planning, Manufacturing, and Customer Center organizations.

Connaissances

Communication skills

German & English fluency

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Formation

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering/Industrial Engineering/Business Engineering/SCM

Description du poste

A Snapshot of Your Day

As Strategic Project & Escalation Manager (f/m/d), you play a pivotal role in ensuring the successful execution of Siemens Energy's most critical GIS (gas insulated switchgear) and AIS (air insulated switchgear) customer projects across Europe. You act as the connecting link between project execution, business leadership, and operational functions, ensuring that risks, priorities, and escalations are addressed proactively and transparently.

A Snapshot of Your Day

As Strategic Project & Escalation Manager (f/m/d), you play a pivotal role in ensuring the successful execution of Siemens Energy's most critical GIS (gas insulated switchgear) and AIS (air insulated switchgear) customer projects across Europe. You act as the connecting link between project execution, business leadership, and operational functions, ensuring that risks, priorities, and escalations are addressed proactively and transparently. You work closely with Project Managers, Regional Leaders, Business Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Procurement, Logistics, Customer Centers, and Order Management teams to resolve complex challenges and enable informed decision-making. Your work directly contributes to delivery performance, customer satisfaction, and the sustainable growth of our Grid Technologies business. No two days are alike. Depending on the situation, you may lead strategic initiatives, manage high-impact escalations, assess contractual implications, prepare executive decision papers, facilitate cross-functional workshops, or support leadership teams in defining priorities across a dynamic project portfolio.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Lead strategic cross-functional projects and support business transformation initiatives across Order Management Switchgears Europe
• Coordinate the resolution of critical project escalations and drive actions to mitigate schedule, delivery, and execution risks
• Establish transparency regarding project risks, opportunities, constraints, and priorities to support effective decision-making and with that, contribute to a proactive escalation culture focused on transparency, accountability, and customer success
• Collaborate with Project Managers, Regional Leaders, and Senior Management to align project priorities, resource allocation, and business decisions
• Analyze customer contracts and commercial commitments, and prepare decision materials, business cases, status reports, and management presentations
• Facilitate alignment and solution development across Order Management, AIS, GIS, Logistics, Procurement, Planning, Manufacturing, and Customer Center organizations

What You Bring

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Business Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or a comparable discipline
• Many years of experience in complex project management, program management, order execution, or a related business environment, including cross-functional initiatives and escalation management involving multiple stakeholders and organizational interfaces
• Strong understanding of customer projects within an industrial, infrastructure, energy, manufacturing, or engineering environment
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills and the ability to navigate technical, commercial, contractual, and operational topics while balancing strategic decisions with hands‑on problem solving
• Experience in project governance, stakeholder management, executive communications, and managing competing priorities in a fast‑paced environment
• Outstanding communication, presentation, negotiation, and collaboration skills, and you are fluent in German and English, both written and spoken

About The Team

Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100.000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer-financed company pension scheme
• We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder
• We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity
• The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self-determined way, various attractive programmes and learning materials are available for this purpose
• In relation to the "compatibility of family and work", we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part‑time work or even a sabbatical

We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.

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