Project Manager

Giesecke+Devrient; Sant Joan Despí; Híbrido; EUR 85.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) seeks a Senior Project Manager (French-speaking) to join our Professional Services team in Barcelona. You will lead end-to-end IT/technology projects in highly regulated environments, coordinating multi-disciplinary teams and stakeholders across France, Europe, and globally.

Based in Sant Joan Despí, Barcelona, you will ensure objectives are met on time and within budget, while maintaining governance and risk controls.

Formación

• At least eight years of experience managing complex IT projects for customers.
• Resilience and decisive leadership under pressure.
• Ability to translate requirements into reliable project effort estimates and realistic implementation plans.
• Fluent in French and English for internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong multicultural awareness and respect for international teams.
• Excellent analytical skills to grasp complex topics quickly.
• Ability to moderate and steer discussions, even without expert subject matter knowledge.
• Ability to keep projects on track and deliver successful outcomes.

Responsabilidades

• Independent end-to-end management of complex customer projects within our CBDC ecosystem, including backend apps, mobile apps, digital wallets, smart cards, and integration components.
• Control of project team over the full cycle from requirements analysis to handover.
• Proactive management of risks and change requests with governance and escalation across multi-year programs.
• Collaboration with internal and external stakeholders at all levels in an international environment.
• Establish and execute effective project governance including status reporting and steering meetings.
• Facilitate customer communication in French and English with stakeholders.
• Manage subcontractors in scope, quality, dependencies, and timelines.
• Contribute to tenders and proposals with business and technical teams.

Conocimientos

Eight years experience

Resilience

Project estimation

French and English

Multicultural awareness

Analytical skills

Stakeholder facilitation

Decision making under pressure

Descripción del empleo

G+D makes the lives of billions of people around the world more secure. We shape trust in the digital age with built-in security tech in three segments: Digital Security, Financial Platforms and Currency Technology. We have been a reliable partner for our customers for over 170 years with our innovative solutions for SecurityTech! We are an international technology group and traditional family business with over 14,000 employees in 40 countries. Creating Confidence is our path to success. Trust is the basis of our collaboration within G+D.

We are the reliable partner for all challenges resulting from the Internet of Things. We offer a complete connectivity portfolio for mobile network operators, automotive manufacturers, technology companies such as chip and module manufacturers as well as transport and logistics providers. Our portfolio includes highly secure solutions in the area of connectivity & IoT, from classic SIM, eSIM and iSIM, to the associated embedded operating systems and life cycle management, through to services for global connectivity and IoT solutions. Do you want to actively shape the digital transformation with us?

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager (French-speaking) (m/f/d) to join our Professional Services team in Barcelona.

Overall Goals:

• To manage complex IT / technology implementation projects end-to-end, in highly regulated environments, from initiation to successful closure.
• To act as the business delivery lead, ensuring that customer’s objectives are met within the agreed scope, timeline, quality, and budget.
• To provide structured project governance, stakeholder coordination, and risk control across internal teams, customers, partners, and subcontractors, with a strong focus on effective communication in French and English.

Responsibilities:

• Independent end-to-end management of complex customer projects within our CBDC ecosystem, which includes backend applications, mobile apps, digital wallets, smart cards, and integration components. Our customers are typically Central Banks.
• Confident control of projects and management of the project team over the entire project cycle from requirements analysis to handover.
• Proactive management of project risks and change requests, ensuring effective control and continuity across projects ranging from short-term initiatives to complex multi-year programs.
• Collaboration with internal and external stakeholders on different hierarchical levels in an international environment.
• Establish and execute effective project governance including status reporting, steering meetings, escalation management, and decision tracking.
• Facilitating customer communication, alignments, and follow-ups in French and English.
• Ensuring subcontractors, where applicable, are well-managed in terms of scope, quality, dependencies and timelines.
• Processing of intricate tenders and proposals, together with our business development and technical teams.

Skills:

• You have at least eight years of experience in managing complex IT projects for customers. Project teams respect you and you take good care of them.
• You demonstrate resilience and decisive leadership under pressure, maintaining strategic focus and guiding projects through complex challenges to successful outcomes.
• You can translate requirements into reliable project effort estimates and realistic implementation plans, that support effective decision-making and delivery control.
• You communicate convincingly in French and English, both with internal and external stakeholders at all hierarchical levels.
• You have strong multicultural awareness and a respectful approach towards working with people from diverse international backgrounds.
• You have excellent analytical skills and can quickly grasp new, complex topics.
• You are able to effectively moderate and steer business or technical discussions, even if you are not an expert in the topic being discussed. When needed, you make decisions based on limited information.
• You keep track of things even in troubled waters and steer projects to success in a targeted and effective manner.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with economics, central banks, digital currencies, or payment infrastructure projects
• Experience with projects in the area of payments or with solutions that place high demands on IT security
• PMP, PRINCE2, or similar certification
• Additional languages such as Arabic, Spanish or German

Organizational:

• In your role you will be an integral part of the Professional Services team, whose main responsibility is to successfully deliver customer projects.
• The position is intended to be based in our Sant Joan Despí, Barcelona office.
• Willingness and flexibility to travel to meet customers on an regular basis is required.
• You should be comfortable operating in a confidential, high-governance, customer-facing environment.
• You should bring a strong sense of ownership, follow-through, and professionalism when dealing with dignitaries, senior stakeholders, and sensitive information.

What's great about working with us:

• Culture and diversity: Join a people-oriented environment with different nationalities and a great team spirit, flat hierarchies (everyone speaks to everyone). Equal Opportunity Employer and LGBT+ friendly.
• Team: An opportunity to shape our engineering culture and work with a passionate, mission-driven team. Collaboration with a diverse and very international team of outstanding people.
• Global Collaboration: Work collaboratively with stakeholders around the globe.
• Impactful Work: You will have the opportunity to participate in and shape high-impact technology initiatives in a complex and evolving environment.
• Career Development: Benefit from continuous training, coaching, and talent development programs.
• Own canteen: Take a break with our breakfast and lunch service: choose between a wide range of menus, salad desk, and sandwiches service. Nicely priced!
• Work-Life Balance: Flexible working hours with the option for remote work (Mon-Thu 8:30 - 17:30 and Fri 8:30 - 15:30).
• Location: Sant Joan Despí, Barcelona. Easily accessible by public transport.

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