Senior/Middle Project Manager

ELEKS; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ELEKS Project Management Office seeks a Senior/Middle Project Manager for Europe (Poland/Croatia or similar) with business‑fluent German. You will lead complex digital/web/CMS projects, coordinate cross‑functional teams, and ensure delivery across agile, traditional, and hybrid models.

Expect on-site client meetings in Magdeburg and CET-hour alignment. The role emphasizes stakeholder communication, risk management, and continuous improvement within a multinational client context.

Qualifications

• At least 4–5 years of experience as a Project Manager in complex digital, web, portal, or CMS projects.
• At least three years as a 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 agile methods.

Responsibilities

• Oversee operational project management and coordinate all involved teams.
• Serve as central point of contact for the customer/client.
• Create and maintain project, milestone, and communication plans.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, quality, resources, and dependencies.

Skills

Project management

Agile/Scrum

Change management

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Distributed teams

Jira

Confluence

MS Project

German language

On-site coordination

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft Project

Job description

ELEKS Project Management Office is looking for a Senior/Middle Project Manager in Poland, Croatia, or other European countries, with business‑fluent German language skills.

ABOUT CLIENT

ELEKS is starting a new collaboration with University Medicine in Germany. The project focuses on the digital transformation of the 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 4-5 years of proven professional experience as a 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)
• 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

WHAT YOU WILL GET WITH ELEKS

• Close cooperation with a customer
• Challenging tasks
• Ability to influence project technologies
• Team of professionals
• Dynamic environment with low level of bureaucracy

ELEKS is a custom software development company. We deliver value to our clients, thanks to our expertise and experience gained from working as a software innovation partner since 1991.

Our 2000+ professionals located in the Delivery Centers across Eastern Europe and sales offices in Europe and North America, provide our clients with a full range of software engineering services. These include product development, QA, R&D, design, technology consulting and dedicated teams.