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
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 4-5 years of proven professional experience as a 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)
- 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
WHAT YOU WILL GET WITH ELEKS
- Close cooperation with a customer
- Challenging tasks
- Competence development
- Ability to influence project technologies
- Team of professionals
- Dynamic environment with low level of bureaucracy
ELEKS is a custom software development company. We deliver value to our clients, thanks to our expertise and experience gained from working as a software innovation partner since 1991.
Our 2000+ professionals located in the Delivery Centers across Eastern Europe and sales offices in Europe and North America, provide our clients with a full range of software engineering services. These include product development, QA, R&D, design, technology consulting and dedicated teams.