About the role
ELEKS Project Management Office is looking for a Senior/Middle Project Manager in Poland, Croatia, or other European countries, with business‑fluent German language skills.
ABOUT CLIENT
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.