Project Manager

[Company name], an SMB in [industry] based in [city], [X] employees, [X] M€ revenue, is looking for a Project Manager to steer [1-3] key projects with a focus on [regulated waterfall projects / agile tech projects / cross-functional multi-team rollouts].

Your role

As Project Manager you carry the delivery responsibility for [1-3] key projects with a budget between [100 k€ and 1 M€] per project, with teams of [5-15] people across the functions [engineering, sales, finance, HR]. You report to [management / the programme lead / the function leads] and work in close partnership with the workstream leads and function leads.

Key responsibilities

• Frame new projects with sponsors and function leads: goals, scope, budget, risks, success indicators and governance.
• Steer the running projects with a weekly cadence in the team, a fortnightly review with function leads and a monthly steering committee with sponsors.
• Actively lead the risk register: identification, assessment, clear owners, mitigation plan, a weekly review and proactive escalation of the top-3 risks to sponsors.
• Written status reports before every steering committee with an explicit status (green, amber, red) per workstream and clear decision requests.
• Multi-team orchestration across the functions involved with a documented dependency map and proactive interface steering.
• Maintain the escalation path: early notice of sensitive topics to sponsors and to the disciplinary managers of the team members when engagement is lacking.
• Structure the closure phase of each project: acceptance with sponsors, a hypercare phase after go-live, a lessons-learned document and the transition into the run responsibility of the functions.

Profile

• Essential: 3-7 years of experience in project management in an SMB, scale-up or consulting context with internal delivery responsibility; a demonstrated ability to lead at least 2-4 projects between 100 k€ and 1 M€ budget fully; command of at least one steering tool stack (Jira, Asana, Linear, Monday or Notion) and the associated reporting practice.
• Desired: a recognized certification (PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum Master, SAFe) depending on the project typology; experience in a regulated sector (banking, insurance, healthcare, industry) if relevant; prior experience in operational consulting (Goetzpartners, Capgemini Invent or comparable), followed by at least 2 years of internal delivery experience.
• Disqualifying: no internal delivery responsibility (a 100 percent consulting profile with no escalation experience); a pure Scrum Master profile with no multi-team orchestration; a tendency to mask problems instead of escalating early; instability (several 12-month stints in a row with no clear handovers).

What we offer

• Gross annual compensation: fixed [50-80] k€ depending on experience and project scope. No structural variable share; a possible annual bonus of 5-10 % on achieved project milestones per company practice.
• Model: [full-time, hybrid 2-3 days / week on-site, based in [city]].
• Benefits: [a company pension, a job ticket or bike leasing, a meal subsidy, vacation days, a home-office policy, a training budget incl. PMP or PRINCE2 certification].
• Stack: [Jira, Confluence, Notion, Slack, and where applicable sector-specific tools].