Senior IT Project Manager

About the Position

We are looking for a Senior IT Project Manager to join our Global IT team at Ottobock SE & Co. KGaA in Berlin, Germany. As a key partner to Ottobock’s business units, you will provide the entire portfolio of infrastructure and applications. Your role will be crucial in driving our strategic and tactical IT projects and supporting the company’s strong growth with scalable IT solutions.

Responsibilities

• Management of Complex Transformation Projects: Overseeing multiple cross-functional IT and business transformation projects from the initial demand phase through successful implementation and stabilization.
• End-to-End Project Responsibility: Responsibility for scope, timeline, budget, quality, risks, dependencies, KPIs, and business outcomes.
• Structuring & Implementation: Translating business requirements into clearly structured projects with a roadmap, governance, delivery model, and defined decision-making processes.
• Global Rollouts & Dependencies: Managing international rollouts and parallel workstreams across regions, functions, business processes, and applications.
• Business Solutions & Business Partnership: Leading projects in an integrated SAP and business solutions environment, as well as actively advising and constructively challenging the business to develop sustainable solutions.
• Stakeholder Management & Hands-on Execution: Orchestrating internal and external teams, creating transparency, and actively resolving critical project situations-from root cause analysis through recovery scenarios to implementation.

Requirements

• A successfully completed degree in (Business) Computer Science, Business Administration, a natural science, or a comparable field.
• At least 5 years of experience leading complex, international IT and business transformation projects, ideally in a global manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrable experience with global rollouts and parallel workstreams, as well as managing complex organizational, technical, and regional dependencies.
• A strong understanding of integrated end-to-end business processes in areas such as finance, HR, sales, service, manufacturing, supply chain, and logistics, as well as experience in SAP or a comparable enterprise application environment.
• Solid project management and implementation skills: from project setup, roadmap, and governance through budget, KPI, risk, and dependency management to successful implementation and stabilization.
• Strong business partner and stakeholder skills: understanding and constructively challenging business requirements, reconciling differing interests, and interacting confidently.
• Communicating professionally with management, international stakeholders, IT teams, and external partners.
• Strong analytical and hands-on implementation skills: structuring complex situations, driving decisions forward, resolving obstacles, and consistently leading even challenging projects to success.
• Excellent German and English language skills at the C1 level.

We Offer

• Competitive compensation, including bonus and 30 days of vacation.
• Flexible and family-friendly work schedules (including the option to work remotely).
• Personalized professional development through our wide range of training opportunities.
• An open corporate culture with regular team events and an exciting international work environment.
• Corporate benefits, EGYM Wellpass, health management programs, and many more perks that await you at Ottobock.

About the Company

Ottobock’s products and services combine over 100 years of tradition with outstanding innovation in the fields of prosthetics, neuro-orthotics, and exoskeletons. Ottobock develops innovative fitting solutions for people with limited mobility and is driving the digitalization of the industry. Founded in Berlin in 1919, the company has business activities in 45 countries with nearly 9,300 employees worldwide and operates the largest international patient care network with around 400 patient care clinics. Ottobock’s mission of improving freedom of movement, quality of life, and independence is deeply rooted in the company's DNA, as is its social commitment: Ottobock has been a partner and supporter of the Paralympics since 1988.

Apply now! Your ideas and commitment will inspire your colleagues and staff, and will further the interests of Ottobock. Be part of a dynamic, growing company with flat hierarchies. We offer a richly diverse field of work, individual development opportunities, and extensive qualification programs in our Ottobock Academy.

Please only apply via our online job portal at jobs.ottobock.com. Please quote the Job-ID for the position in question, and also state your earliest starting date and salary requirements. We look forward to receiving your application!