Senior Project Manager

About the role

As a Senior Project Manager, you will join the central Project Management team in Reinbek to lead large, complex cross-functional projects and establish project management standards across global locations. You will independently manage projects from initiation to closure, navigate senior stakeholder relationships, and intervene to stabilize projects that have drifted off course. This role offers the opportunity to shape project management methodologies while supporting and coaching colleagues in a growing international environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead large, cross-functional projects independently from initiation to closure, including planning, governance, steering committees and stakeholder management.
• Facilitate and actively participate in problem-solving sessions to drive project success.
• Take over projects that have drifted off course or lost their lead, diagnose what went wrong and re-establish structure as interim or permanent lead.
• Navigate demanding situations with senior leadership and across departments and prepare well-founded decisions for steering committees.
• Support department-led projects as quality assurance and sparring partner and coach project managers on their deliverables.
• Contribute to our project management standards, templates and training formats, and turn project experience into reusable methods.

Required skills

• Project management
• Stakeholder management
• Problem solving
• Analytical skills
• German
• English
• Task tracking
• Milestone tracking

Nice to have

• ERP implementation
• Manufacturing
• Regulated production
• Jira
• Confluence
• International organization

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• Several years of experience independently leading complex, cross-functional projects
• Experience working with senior stakeholders
• Experience taking over or stabilising projects already in progress

Certifications

• IPMA Level C

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• 4 weeks remote work from other EU countries
• 30 days paid vacation
• Monthly allowance of €50 for BAV
• Relocation cost reimbursement
• JobRad
• Subsidized lunch
• Deutschlandticket subsidy
• Free language courses
• Discounted gym memberships

About the Company

Arethia is an internationally operating, growing family business with flat hierarchies that encourages personal responsibility and growth.