Project Manager/Lead

PwC; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Upskilling and trainings

Medical and wellbeing program

Benefits package customization

Volunteer time off

Birthday day off

Job summary

PwC Kraków is seeking a Project Manager/Lead to enable efficient collaboration across five Working Groups and support SMEs in delivering agreed end products. The role focuses on structured coordination, planning, and ensuring timely progress, with an emphasis on coordinating international teams and driving governance reviews.

The ideal candidate has strong project and stakeholder management skills, fluency in English, and the ability to manage multiple dependencies while maintaining transparency

Qualifications

• Project management and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional and international teams.
• English speaking required.
• Excellent meeting preparation, facilitation, and follow‑up skills.
• Ability to manage multiple dependencies and action items simultaneously.
• Communication and organizational skills.
• Experience with transformation or finance-related programs is beneficial.
• Familiarity with AI-powered tools and automation in daily work.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and facilitate activities within the Working Groups.
• Drive planning, scheduling, and alignment of Working Group meetings and workshops.
• Prepare meeting agendas, materials, and decision papers with Working Group Leads.
• Document outcomes, decisions, actions, risks, and dependencies.
• Ensure follow-up and tracking of actions across workstreams.
• Support SMEs and Working Group members in organizing deliverables.
• Monitor milestones, timelines, and interdependencies between Working Groups.
• Consolidate status updates and prepare management reporting for governance bodies.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional coordination

English speaking

Tools

SAFe/Agile

Job description

Job Description & Summary

Innovative and technological projects are our daily business. We provide customers with the highest quality guided by integrity, objectivity and investment in data, tools, technologies, products and services. We believe that with non‑obvious combinations of skills, experience and technology, we can actively participate in shaping tomorrow.

Our Internal Business Application Centre (IBACentre) team offers you the opportunity to support our core business functions by implementing applications that enable more efficient work and the delivery of top‑notch services. Our team focuses on managing core and global business applications, ensuring their continuous operation, handling customer relationships, and incidents with precision.

We are looking for:

Project Manager/Lead

The primary objective of this role is to enable efficient collaboration within 5 Working Groups, provide structured project coordination, and support subject matter experts (SMEs) in the development of the agreed end products and deliverables. The Project Lead will act as coordination and delivery enabler, ensuring that Working Group activities are effectively planned and executed.

Your future role:

• Coordinate and facilitate activities within the Working Groups,
• Drive planning, scheduling, and alignment of Working Group meetings and workshops,
• Prepare meeting agendas, materials, and decision papers in collaboration with the Working Group Leads,
• Document outcomes, decisions, actions, risks, and dependencies,
• Ensure consistent follow‑up and tracking of actions across workstreams,
• Support SMEs and Working Group members in organizing and progressing deliverables,
• Monitor milestones, timelines, and interdependencies between Working Groups,
• Consolidate status updates and prepare management reporting for governance bodies and SteerCos,
• Identify escalations, bottlenecks, and cross-functional impacts early and drive resolution,
• Maintain overall transparency regarding deliverables, ownership, and progress.

Apply if you have:

• Project management and stakeholder management capabilities,
• Experience coordinating cross-functional and international teams,
• English speaking,
• Excellent meeting preparation, facilitation, and follow‑up skills,
• Ability to manage multiple dependencies and action items simultaneously,
• Communication and organizational skills,
• Experience with transformation or finance‑related programs is beneficial,
• Demonstrated knowledge of new technologies and AI‑powered tools in your daily work (e.g., task automation, information analysis, content creation),
• SAFe/Agile expertise is nice to have.

By joining us you gain:

• Work flexibility - hybrid working model, flexible start of the day, workation, sabbatical leave,
• Development and upskilling - our full support during onboarding process, mentoring from experienced colleagues, training sessions, workshops, certification co/financed by PwC and conversations with native speaker,
• Wide medical and well‑being program - a medical care package (incl. freedom of treatment, physiotherapy, discounts on dental care), coaching, mindfulness sessions, psychological support, education through dedicated webinars and workshops, financial and legal advice,
• Possibility to create your individual benefits package (a.o. lunch pass, insurance packages, concierge, veterinary package for a pet, massages) and access to a cafeteria - vouchers, discounts on IT equipment and car purchase,
• 3 paid hours for volunteering per month,
• Additional paid Birthday Day off.