Senior Project Manager (German speaking, JR808)

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 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 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.