Senior Project Manager (German speaking, JR808)

About the Position

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 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.

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.

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.

We Offer

• Opportunity to work with a leading hospital in Germany on a digital transformation project.
• Remote work options.
• Professional growth and development opportunities.

About the Company

ELEKS is a leading software engineering company with a strong focus on delivering high-quality software solutions to clients worldwide. We are committed to innovation, excellence, and customer satisfaction.