Senior Project Manager (m/f/d)

Role description As Senior Project Manager, you will join our central Project Management team in Reinbek, which leads the company's large and complex cross-functional projects and sets the standards for how projects are run across all of arethia's global locations. Join us during a pivotal growth phase and help create the foundations of a team that will drive meaningful transformation across the organisation.

You will independently lead complex projects with senior stakeholders across departments, and you will be the person we turn to when a project has drifted off course and needs to be brought back on track.

This is a delivery role first, and it is also a chance to shape how project management works in a growing, international company: you will contribute to our standards and methods, support colleagues who run their own projects and help build a project management community across our sites. As the team grows, so does the scope of what you can take on.

• Your Mission
• •Project Leadership – Lead large, cross-functional projects independently from initiation to closure, including planning, governance, steering committees and stakeholder management.
• •Problem Solving - Facilitate and actively participate in problem-solving sessions to drive project success
• •Project Recovery – 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.
• •Stakeholder Management – Navigate demanding situations with senior leadership and across departments and prepare well-founded decisions for steering committees.
• •Quality and Coaching – Support department-led projects as quality assurance and sparring partner and coach project managers on their deliverables.
• •Standards and Methods – Contribute to our project management standards, templates and training formats, and turn project experience into reusable methods.

• Minimum Qualifications
• •Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• •Several years of experience independently leading complex, cross-functional projects with full ownership from initiation to closure.
• •Experience working with senior stakeholders and navigating conflicting interests across departments.
• •Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• •Experience taking over or stabilising projects already in progress.
• •Ability to work independently, propose solutions and make decisions within your remit.
• •Business-level communication skills in German and English (C1).
• •Experience in applying common project management tools, e.g. for task and milestone tracking.

• Preferred Qualifications
• •Experience with an ERP or comparable large-scale system implementation.
• •IPMA Level C or equivalent. A higher level is a plus.
• •Experience in a manufacturing or regulated production environment.
• •Experience developing project management standards, templates or training formats.
• •Experience with Jira and Confluence.
• •Experience working in an international, multi-site organisation.

• Why you'll love working here
• •Exciting tasks in an internationally operating, growing family business with flat hierarchies
• •Flexible working hours and a hybrid working model
• •4 weeks remote work from other EU countries
• •30 days paid vacation per year
• •Salary bands for a fair corporate culture
• •Monthly allowance of €50 for your BAV
• •Annual 360° feedback loops with clear promotion criteria and an individual career path
• •Responsibility from day one in a company that encourages personal responsibility and growth
• •Relocation costs can be reimbursed on a pro rata basis
• •Regular company events such as summer party, Christmas party
• •Paid team dinners or activities for each team twice a year
• •Free parking right outside the door
• •Perks and benefits: JobRad, subsidized lunch, subsidy for the Deutschlandticket, free language courses and discounted memberships at several gyms and for the Wellpass
• •Fresh fruit, free drinks and snacks in the office

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