IT Project Manager

Are you passionate about business transformation and project management, motivated by responsibility, variety, and direct business involvement. Do you have expertise in SAP, strong communication skills, and the ability to engage the right people at the right time? Do you want to grow your career as a Project Manager in a globally leading technology company like GEA?

The Service Delivery Project Management team offers a challenging role with impact and great colleagues.

Responsibilities / Tasks

As IT Project Manager work in a structured manner, drive projects toward agreed milestones, and tackle challenges with a positive attitude, whether theoretical or hands-on. Experience with Agile methodology is a plus, and you support others in understanding and applying it.

• Effective execution, coordination, and organization of multiple IT projects

• Develop, refine, and manage project plans to ensure on time and on budget delivery

• Arrange and manage the right resources required for the project within GEA IT organization and, depending on the project, also resources from external IT service providers

• Proper reporting of project status to the project boards, service delivery management, to the service owner(s) and to other stakeholders

• Identify and manage risks to ensure successful delivery

• Keep track on pending issues and escalate where necessary

• Change management activities that are related to the project deliverables

• Excellent, timely and effective communication about the project to all stakeholders.

Your Profile / Qualifications

We expect you to have proven experiences (at least 10 years) in IT project management

The following educational background, knowledge, skills, and competencies are relevant for this role:

• Masters’s degree or relevant experience

• Experience with large SAP projects

• Experience with project management frameworks, particularly Prince 2 (certification preferred)

• Experience with agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban (certification preferred)

• Ability to understand business processes, interdependencies and complexity

• Result driven – focused on targets and project plans

• Strong stakeholder management

• Experience as program manager / multi project manager desirable

• Proven ability to manage an international team of experts

• As this role is in an international environment, English language skills are a must. Both verbally as in writing. German language skills would be very welcome. When you master any other languages that is considered a plus.

• In addition, being a strong communicator, you will preferably regard yourself as a passionate person who is always willing to cooperate not thinking about problems but about their solutions.

• The main project location being Duesseldorf, presence in Duesseldorf office is expected on a frequent basis.

Our offer to you:

• Competitive salary + 8% holiday allowance.

• Company car or Travel allowance.

• 27 holidays + 13 ADV days based on full-time.

• Participation in pension fund (PME).

• Home working allowance if applicable.

• Possibility of collective health insurance.

• Contribution to your sports subscription.

What happens once your  application is submitted?

You will receive an email when your application has been processed.

One of our TA Partners will review and verify if the application meets the qualifications of the role.

If your application has been successfully verified, you will be invited to a first interview either virtually or face-to-face.

Usually after the second/third interview round we will make a decision.
Please do not hesitate to reach out to our team at any stage of your application.

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