Senior Project Manager - Product Development Temp until 31.08.2027 (m/f/d)

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*We actively encourage individuals with disabilities to apply and will provide reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.

PURPOSE

This is a key in-house strategy position for an organized, passionate and goal-oriented future leader who understands what projects have in common, and their strategic role in how organizations succeed, learn and change.

• Drive key strategic initiatives across functions
• Manage (senior) stakeholder’s relationship and secure buy-ins to project deliverables
• Coach and groom future junior talents
• Furthering project management capabilities and knowledge management of the team
• Uphold and enhance the brand of Project Management Office with (senior) stakeholders

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead overall program, project and work streams deliverables (e.g. project planning, milestones execution and monitoring) in alignment with strategic direction
• Identify business opportunities through development of new capabilities, and align and balance cross-divisions’ interest
• Manage effective and timely communication on project progress and results to sponsors and senior management
• Lead interpretation of program, project results and translate into insights to steer the project successfully
• Effectively deploy project management toolkit across work streams to ensure high quality and consistency of deliverables
• Coach and Manage activities of (assistant) project managers and business analysts
• Manage activities within the team (e.g. knowledge sharing)
• Drive project activities and connect with other stakeholders to share activities across work streams
• Initiate and drive discussions with x-functional stakeholders to collect and consolidate feedback, prepare and align solutions
• Proactively manage stakeholders, build relationships and manage communication

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Soft skills

• End-to-end mindset, big picture view of problems on hand
• Engaging, open and react to feedbacks and improve
• Highly self-motivated individuals
• Independently manage portfolio of tasks and handle upward communication proactively
• Change management skills of influencing network of stakeholders
• Coaching experience

Hard skills

• Proven track records on wide areas of tools (e.g. Project planning, process mapping, enterprise solutions, Excel analytics, etc.)
• Solid presentation and storytelling skills
• Discipline in planning time management and organization skills
• Project management, lean six-sigma certification
• Other HR toolboxes (e.g. Campus and self-learning modules)

People management skills

• Manage project teams
• Coach junior team members through providing feedbacks to support the development and performance of the team
• Drive and manage onboarding
• Support recruiting
• Foster a team culture that encourages trust, open and constructive discussion of important issues

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 5-6 years of relevant work experience in MNC environment (e.g. top tier consulting, project management, apparel/fashion, or supply chain management, background)
• Within which 1-2 years of relevant project leadership, team management experiences
• University degree, PMP and lean sigma certification preferred