IT Project Manager (m/w/d)

About the Position

We are seeking an IT Project Manager (m/w/d) for a full-time position to oversee complex IT projects in the aerospace sector, ensuring quality, time, and budget adherence.

Responsibilities

• Project Steering: Oversee the management of complex IT projects in the aerospace environment and support the establishment of a new European organization, ensuring successful implementation in terms of quality, time, and budget.
• Migration Coordination: Plan and coordinate the migration of applications, IT infrastructures, data, and user environments into an independent IT landscape, always keeping dependencies, risks, and operational stability in mind.
• Stakeholder Coordination: As the central contact person, coordinate between departments, IT service providers, international partners, and other stakeholders. Ensure smooth collaboration and actively drive decisions forward.
• Project Management and Governance: Establish suitable project management and governance structures, create status reports, and present project results to management and steering committees.
• Support and Training: Accompany tests, user training, and the handover of solutions to operational use, ensuring sustainable knowledge transfer.
• Additional Projects: Participate in other projects in the aerospace industry, supporting initiatives in IT infrastructure, enterprise applications, and PLM/PDM environments.

Requirements

• Experience: Several years of experience in managing complex, cross-departmental IT projects, ideally with successful experience in transformation, migration, or carve-out projects.
• Skills: Solid knowledge in project planning, budget control, resource and risk management, and dependency management, always keeping quality, deadlines, and costs in mind.
• Technical Knowledge: Good understanding of enterprise IT landscapes and experience in IT infrastructure, applications, cloud services, identity & access management, as well as IT migrations and separations.
• Industry Knowledge: Ideally, knowledge of the aerospace industry requirements and confidence in complex, international, and regulated project environments.
• Additional Knowledge: Familiarity with IT service management according to ITIL and a basic understanding of information security, data protection, and compliance requirements.
• Languages: Excellent communication and coordination skills, very good German and English skills. French skills are a plus.

We Offer

• Training and Development: A tailored, modular training plan and opportunities to apply and expand your skills in challenging practical assignments.
• Team and Culture: An international team with a feel-good atmosphere, company-wide (online) team events, office celebrations at our locations, flat hierarchies, team spirit, open doors, and a diverse work environment.
• Continuous Learning: Ongoing training based on your personal development path.
• Work-Life Balance: Mobile work and flexible working hours.
• Benefits: Subsidies for public transport, business bike program, and other benefits.
• Mental Health and Well-being: Diverse offers in the Mental Health Program, Work-Life Service, and a wide range of training and coaching opportunities through our partnership with the Fürstenberg Institute.
• Retirement and Insurance: Employer-sponsored occupational pension plan, group accident insurance also for private use.

About the Company

Who We Are – CIMPA GmbH

As a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Sopra Steria Group with more than 45,000 employees in over 20 countries, CIMPA offers innovative services for digital transformation, product lifecycle management (PLM), and system lifecycle management (SLCM). CIMPA provides one of the most comprehensive portfolios of high-quality PLM and SLCM consulting and services on the market in the aerospace, automotive, transport, defense, and energy sectors.

With our system lifecycle management (SLCM) approach, we focus on the full lifecycle and associated lifecycle costs (LCC) of our customers' systems at all times, helping to holistically consider and optimize their systems with a view to the entire lifecycle.

Using our holistic approach based on the principles of Integrated Lifecycle Support (ILS), we help our customers control their costs not only for development, production, and distribution but also to ensure longer operational times for their systems, thereby achieving concrete and measurable improvements for their systems.

Our Environment:

• We act as an expert team in the environment of national and international clients and legal areas.
• We serve clients from various industries, e.g., aerospace.
• We design flexible systems and processes in international companies.
• We offer simple, sustainable solutions in a volatile environment.
• We handle various projects within the framework of export control / trade compliance.
• We emphasize regular professional training, e.g., national and international export control regulations DE/FR/EU/UK/US/IN/etc., developments in technology transfer, basic customs law, international and contract law, development of new technologies and their international classification, etc.
• We meet a wide range of requirements to fulfill our tasks and support you in the continuous development of your skills, e.g., organizational, information & knowledge management, IT, change management, project management, etc.
• We work in international teams and with people at all organizational levels.

At CIMPA PLM Services, we value diversity and inclusion and promote a work environment where everyone is welcome and respected.