Project Manager - IT Transformation

As part of their Data, Digital & Technology function, you will join a high-impact team responsible for driving complex IT and digital change across multiple business units and geographies. This environment is fast-moving, collaborative, and ideal for an experienced Project Manager who enjoys delivering meaningful, large-scale transformation., Project Delivery & Governance

• Manage and deliver IT/digital projects and workstreams across scope, requirements, time, cost, quality, risk, and benefits.
• Lead mixed teams of internal staff and external suppliers across organisational and geographical boundaries.
• Ensure all team members have sufficient skills, capacity, and clarity to deliver expected outcomes.
• Apply strong change control, proactively managing variances in scope, time, cost, or quality.
• Maintain accurate project documentation, including risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies using tools such as JIRA.
• Monitor and report project status to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Proactively engage key stakeholders including business users, IT specialists, SMEs, architects, and suppliers.
• Facilitate effective decision-making and ensure expectations are aligned across business and technical teams.
• Prepare and support senior management presentations and decision materials.

Collaboration & Planning

• Align project methodologies and collaboration approaches to the needs of the team and business.
• Identify synergies and dependencies across parallel transformation initiatives.
• Monitor supplier performance and project costs versus budget.
• Drive adherence to governance, compliance, and internal standards.
• Facilitate and document workshops, steering groups, and technical alignment sessions.

Technical & Delivery Background

• Strong IT background with demonstrable experience delivering large, complex transformation projects.
• Affinity with one or more of the following:

• Cloud technologies (preferably Azure)
• M365 ecosystem (SharePoint, Teams, Entra ID, etc.)
• Digital platforms and applications
• Infrastructure, data management, and interfaces

• Experience in at least one of the following areas is highly desirable:

• Cloud transformation (e.g., on-prem to Azure)
• Identity, mail, or device migrations
• Fileserver-to-SharePoint migrations
• IT system implementations (e.g., ticketing or service management tools)

Project & People Skills

• Strong project management fundamentals across both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Comfortable managing distributed teams and third-party suppliers.
• Mature stakeholder management style with experience engaging up to C-level.
• Hands-on team leader with a structured, autonomous working style.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation abilities.
• Experience with organisational change and adoption activities is a strong advantage.

Additional Requirements

• Educated to degree level with a continuous learning mindset.
• Native or C1 German language proficiency.
• Fluency in English.
• Experience with ITIL, service management, or consultancy environments is an advantage.