Senior Project Manager (German speaking, JR808)

Job description

ELEKS [Project Management Office](https://careers.eleks.com/about/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.