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.
Skills Required
- At least five years of 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.
- Experience in change management and organizational transformation initiatives.
- Experience managing agile, traditional, and hybrid project delivery models.
- Practical knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, or comparable agile methodologies.
- Experience with sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, backlog management, and agile reporting.
- Experience managing schedules, budgets, quality, risks, dependencies, and escalations.
- Experience leading and coordinating interdisciplinary and geographically distributed teams.
- Strong communication skills with executives, project leaders, business stakeholders, IT, data protection, information security, and external providers.
- Hands-on experience with Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project or similar planning tools, and Miro.
- Business-fluent German language skills at minimum C1 level.
- Very good English language skills for international project collaboration.
- Reliable availability during agreed CET/CEST core working hours.
- Willingness and confirmed availability for approximately ten on-site client meetings in Magdeburg.
ELEKS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ELEKS and has not been reviewed or approved by ELEKS.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Well-being support is positioned as a meaningful part of the package, including mental-health/psychological support and wellness offerings in some locations. Flexible work options (remote-friendly/hybrid and flexible hours) also add day-to-day lifestyle value beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off coverage is described as broad, with paid vacation and sick leave plus additional paid days for life events and the option for unpaid days. Sabbatical-like options are also referenced, suggesting additional flexibility for extended leave in some circumstances.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Long-term rewards include opportunities to buy company shares or convert a yearly bonus into shares. This provides an additional wealth-building path beyond salary for eligible employees.
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What We Do
ELEKS is the partner of choice for many of the world's leading enterprises, SMEs and technology challengers. We help businesses elevate their value through custom software development, product design, QA and consultancy services. We deliver high tech innovations to Fortune 500 companies, big enterprises and technology challengers, improving the ways they work and boosting the value they create for the modern world. Our 2000+ professionals located in the Delivery Centers across Eastern Europe and sales offices in Europe, the US and UK, provide our clients with a full range of software services. These include dedicated teams, product development, R&D and technology consulting. For more information, please visit: eleks.com
