Senior Projektleiter

About the role

The Senior Project Manager oversees large client accounts involving multiple parallel IT and software development projects. This role is responsible for managing timelines, budgets, resources, quality, and risks while providing professional leadership to project teams. Acting as a central interface between clients and delivery management, the role ensures complex accounts are steered successfully and critical projects are stabilized.

Responsibilities

• Manage large client accounts with multiple parallel IT and software development projects while maintaining oversight of timelines, budgets, quality, and risks.
• Lead and support project teams, fostering their professional development within ongoing projects.
• Implement effective risk management to ensure risks, dependencies, and escalations are identified, evaluated, and addressed early.
• Create transparency through metrics, forecasts, status reports, and reliable decision-making foundations.
• Manage communication with clients at the management level and moderate steering committees and critical meetings.
• Coordinate resources and competencies across projects and set clear priorities.
• Intervene in at-risk projects to stabilize management before transitioning operational responsibility back to the project manager.
• Oversee the transition of new projects from sales to delivery, refining scope, expectations, and calculations.

Required skills

• Projektleitung
• Risikomanagement
• IT-Projektmanagement
• Budgetsteuerung
• Projektcontrolling
• Softwareentwicklung
• IT-Architektur

Nice to have

• Jira
• Azure DevOps
• Confluence
• Plane
• Moco

Qualifications

• Experience in managing complex IT projects, programs, or large client accounts with multiple parallel projects
• Experience in professional leadership and development of project managers and interdisciplinary teams
• Experience in managing demanding clients and interacting with management and decision-making levels
• German language proficiency (C1 level or higher)

Certifications

• IPMA
• PMP
• PRINCE2
• Scrum

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Remote work options
• Professional development and training budget
• Flat hierarchies
• Company events
• Occupational pension scheme
• Health insurance
• Work-life balance support via voiio
• Urban Sports Club subsidy or BVG ticket
• Corporate Benefits discounts