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