Senior Project Manager (German speaking, JR808)

OpenKrill; United States; On-site; USD 101,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

ELEKS Project Management Office seeks a Senior Project Manager for a Germany-based digital transformation for a hospital. You will lead cross-functional teams, manage scope, schedule, and stakeholders, and ensure iterative progress with agile ceremonies.

Requirements include 5+ years as PM, 3+ years as Scrum Master/Agile Coach, and strong German (C1) plus English skills. On-site presence in Magdeburg for ~ten client meetings is expected.

Qualifications

• Five+ years as Senior Project Manager in digital, web, portal, or CMS projects.
• Three+ years as Scrum Master or Agile Coach.
• Experience with change management and organizational transformation.
• Experience delivering agile, traditional, and hybrid projects.
• Solid knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, or similar methods.
• Experience with sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, backlog, and agile reporting.
• Experience managing scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and dependencies.
• Lead and coordinate interdisciplinary, geographically distributed teams.
• Strong communication with executives, stakeholders, IT, security, and vendors.
• Hands-on with Jira, Confluence, MS Project, and Miro.

Responsibilities

• Own operational project management and coordination of all teams.
• Serve as central point of contact for the customer.
• Create and maintain project management, milestone, and communication plans.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, quality, resources, and dependencies.
• Maintain RAID log and manage risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
• Coordinate across client, business, UX/UI, BA, development, QA, DevOps, and others.
• Facilitate sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and agile ceremonies.
• Ensure transparent and iterative project progress.
• Lead weekly status reports and required status/escalation meetings.
• Ensure compliance with contractual, regulatory, and data-security requirements.
• Support adoption of new processes, systems, and ways of working.
• Participate in on-site meetings in Magdeburg as required.

Skills

Senior Project Manager experience

Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Change management

Agile delivery models

Scrum/Kanban knowledge

Sprint planning

Budget/Risk/Quality management

Cross-functional leadership

Communication with stakeholders

Distributed / international teams

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft Project

Miro

Job description

ELEKS Project Management Office is looking for a Senior Project Manager in Poland, Croatia, or Germany.

ABOUT PROJECT

ELEKS is starting a new collaboration with a leading hospital in Germany. The project focuses on the digital transformation of the hospital's 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 five years of proven professional experience as a Senior 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), and Miro.
• Business-fluent German language skills, minimum C1 level.
• 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.