Senior Project Manager (French-Speaking)

Giesecke+Devrient; Sant Joan Despí; Presencial; EUR 70.000 - 100.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Giesecke+Devrient is seeking a Senior Project Manager (French-speaking) to join our Professional Services team in Barcelona. You will lead end-to-end IT projects for central banks and other regulated environments, coordinating cross-functional teams across regions and languages.

You will ensure objectives are met within scope, time, budget, and quality, while providing governance and proactive risk management.

Formación

• Eight+ years of experience managing complex IT projects for customers.
• Resilient, decisive leadership under pressure.
• Translate requirements into reliable effort estimates and plans.
• Strong French and English communication with stakeholders.
• Multicultural awareness and respectful collaboration.
• Excellent analytical skills and quick grasp of complex topics.
• Ability to moderate and steer discussions with limited information.
• Maintain control and deliver in challenging conditions.

Responsabilidades

• End-to-end management of complex customer projects in our CBDC ecosystem, including backend apps, mobile apps, digital wallets, and integration components.
• Control the project team over the entire cycle from requirements to handover.
• Proactively manage project risks and change requests across short-term to multi-year programs.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders across hierarchical levels in an international environment.
• Establish and execute effective project governance including status reporting and escalation management.
• Facilitate customer communication and follow-ups in French and English.
• Ensure subcontractors are well-managed in terms of scope, quality, dependencies and timelines.
• Process intricate tenders and proposals with business development and technical teams.

Conocimientos

IT project leadership

Stakeholder management

French & English

Multicultural awareness

Analytical skills

Decision making

Risk & governance

Descripción del empleo

G+D makes the lives of billions of people around the world more secure. We create trust in the digital age with integrated security technologies in three business areas: 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 co-operation within G+D.

At Payment Technology, our mission is to be at the start of every transaction and to make it secure and simple. We also create contemporary payment and banking solutions for our digital age. As a one-stop shop, we produce and personalise hundreds of millions of payment cards every year and store their "digital twins" - mobile and digital. Would you like 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 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.