Lead Project Manager

We're Celonis, the global leader in Process Mining technology and one of the world's fastest-growing SaaS firms. We believe there is a massive opportunity to unlock productivity by placing data and intelligence at the core of business processes - and for that, we need you to join us

 
The Team:
Celonis Services is a strategic services organization that focuses on the technical aspects of our customers' journeys, which includes Consulting Services, Academy and Customer Support. We are thought leaders with deep product, technical and domain expertise and focus on delivering Celonis implementations and driving product adoption for our customers. We achieve this by bringing together our best practices, delivery experience, award-winning enablement, and support expertise.
The Role:
As a Project Manager, you will support end-to-end implementations of Celonis’ technology across our largest and most strategic customers. You will articulate Celonis’ product positioning to customers and collaborate with Sales, Partners and Value Engineering to establish Celonis’ Services Value proposition and create statements of work with customers during the pre-sales phase. 

In this role, you will assist customers in understanding how to build best practice and enduring capabilities, are responsible for identifying further Services needs by the customer whilst engaged and responsible for customer satisfaction throughout a customer's engagement with Celonis. 

The work you’ll do:

• Lead complex transformational customer programs, shape and define the project outcome and then steer towards it.
• Planning, scheduling, and management of project timelines and activities from project kick-off through to training, ensuring each project is delivered on time and meets the customers' requirements. 
• Manage resources, schedule, scope and budget on multiple projects by creating and maintaining detailed project plans that emphasize speed to delivery and maximise the efficient use of resources needed to meet the requirements. 
• Collaboration with senior executives, process owners and technical teams within each customer to understand their goals, objectives and requirements and to ensure their successful implementation. You will be their primary point of contact for product feature requests and escalation of support issues. 
• Regularly communicate project status, covering key discussion items, action items, risks and issues. Keep projects up to date in the Celonis Professional Services Automation System to enable accurate and timely project and portfolio reporting.
• Proactively manage and escalate risks and issues internally to Celonis management and externally to customer project sponsors to minimize impact to project success.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to the implementation team, including partner resources, to ensure Celonis methodology is being followed.
• Use your experience to contribute to the continual improvement of Celonis Services methods as well as the maturing field expertise and best practices. 

The qualifications you need:

• Client-facing Project Management experience in enterprise software implementations, managing multiple projects concurrently.
• Extensive experience in project management disciplines, including documenting and maintaining project plans, risk/issue/action logs, and driving problem resolution in partnership with customers and Celonis executives.
• Strong communication skills and a background in consulting with a proven ability to manage stakeholders and project timelines.
• Experience in people managing consulting teams both onshore and offshore.
• Experience in positioning Services, writing proposals and “statement of works” within a complete ecosystem (customers and partners).
• A history of working with an ecosystem of partners and managed co-delivery.
• Ability to effectively set and manage customer expectations.
• Strong analytical skills, especially in applying technology solutions to core business problems.
• Ability and willingness to be certified in Celonis products.
• Project management certifications (PMP, Prince2, or Safe/Agile).
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or other related field.
• Japanese language fluency level is a MUST

What Celonis Can Offer You:

• The unique opportunity to work with industry-leading process mining technology
• Investment in your personal growth and skill development (clear career paths, internal mobility opportunities, L&D platform, mentorships, and more)
• Great compensation and benefits packages (equity (restricted stock units), life insurance, time off, generous leave for new parents from day one, and more). For intern and working student benefits, click here.
• Physical and mental well-being support (subsidized gym membership, access to counseling, virtual events on well-being topics, and more)
• A global and growing team of Celonauts from diverse backgrounds to learn from and work with
• An open-minded culture with innovative, autonomous teams
• Business Resource Groups to help you feel connected, valued and seen (Black@Celonis, Women@Celonis, Parents@Celonis, Pride@Celonis, Resilience@Celonis, and more)
• A clear set of company values that guide everything we do: Live for Customer Value, The Best Team Wins, We Own It, and Earth Is Our Future

About Us:

Celonis helps some of the world’s largest and most esteemed brands make processes work for people, companies and the planet. With over 5,000 enterprise customer deployments across nearly every industry, the Celonis Process Intelligence Platform uses process mining and AI to give you a living digital twin of your business operation. It’s system-agnostic and without bias, and empowers companies to reduce waste, create value and benefit people across the top, bottom, and green lines. Since 2011, the Celonis platform has enabled its customers to identify more than $18 billion in value. Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and New York City, USA, with more than 20 offices worldwide.

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 Equal Opportunity at Celonis:

Celonis is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment and equal opportunity in all aspects of employment. We will not tolerate any unlawful discrimination or harassment of any kind. We make all employment decisions without regard to race/ethnicity, color, sex, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender status, national origin, citizenship status, religion, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other factor protected by applicable anti-discrimination laws. As a US federal contractor, we are committed to the principles of affirmative action in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Different makes us better. 

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