Senior Project Manager

Company Description

Merkle, a dentsu company, powers the experience economy. For more than 35 years, the company has put people at the heart of its approach to digital business transformation. As the only integrated experience consultancy in the world with a heritage in data science and business performance, Merkle delivers holistic, end-to-end experiences that drive growth, engagement, and loyalty. Merkle's expertise has earned recognition as a "Leader" by top industry analyst firms, in categories such as digital transformation and commerce, experience design, engineering and technology integration, digital marketing, data science, CRM and loyalty, and customer data management. With more than 16,000 employees, Merkle operates in 30+ countries throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. For more information, visit www.merkle.com.

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to join us! If you're passionate about technology, and ready to contribute to exciting projects, we'd love to have you on our team. You will be reporting to one of the Delivery Management Team Leads.

Job Description

You will:

• Handle customer projects regarding scheduling, financial and content aspects.
• Have full control of project planning, risk and scope management, project team leadership
• Acknowledge and validate contractual details of the projects.
• Accomplish daily project management activities.
• Provide regular internal and external reporting of project status to different levels of stakeholders.
• Obtain client acceptance for partial and complete delivery.
• Deliver and lead medium to large sized projects or subprojects in a large program.
• Deliver projects within the contracted time, quality and budget and to the company defined profitability level.
• Manage local and remote team members and external suppliers.
• Guide client and 3rd party team members towards project success.
• Comply with our project management standards and processes.
• Identify and unlock further business opportunities.
• Provide consulting services.
• Create concepts and specifications.
• Communicate well with clients.
• Support the acquisition process, and create offers.
• Develop Merkle project management skills.
• Be involved in mentoring for other Merkle project leads.

Qualifications

• 5 or more years of experience in Project Management
• Fluent English, written and spoken
• Sales and business mindset
• Relevant university degree or other higher educational background
• Team spirit – able to work in a regional and international team
• Role model in your acting and performance
• Relationship management – create relationships on all levels
• Experience with full lifecycle of project management discipline, know-how of modern project methodologies (e.g. kanban, agile)
• Experience managing software development and digital delivery projects (e.g. ecommerce, CRM, ERP, and CMS)
• As an advantage: Certified in Project Management (Prince 2 practitioner, PMP, Agile PM Practitioner or other equal, Scrum Master, IPMA), German language

Additional Information

Our benefits:

⛺ 5 weeks of vacation + 3 wellness days

❤️ 2 Volunteering days to share the kindness of your heart with others

⏰ Flexible working hours and home office

🎯 Fully covered certifications in Salesforce, Adobe, Microsoft, etc.

🎓 Full access to LinkedIn Learning, on-site learning sessions, soft skills and language courses

🐶 Pet friendly offices

💌 Meal contribution and cafeteria points from Edenred

🍹 Team events: company parties, breakfasts, and pub quizzes

🥪 Snacks and drinks at the office, and a dedicated office chef!

💸 Referral bonus program

💻 Laptop + equipment

📞 Mobile phone subscription with unlimited texts and calls, and a generous data package + O2 Family

Merkle do not discriminate against job applicants on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Experience stipulated in this job description serves as a guide only and all applications will be considered on their merits, irrespective of experience.

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