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

Why you should work with us?

• We are cooperating with an all types and sizes of clients from all around the world which allows us to provide a very diverse portfolio of projects and technologies to choose from to our people.
• You will be part of a startup-minded branch of a company with a very strong and stable background.
• Your contributions will have a distinct impact on our clients

With us, you will become part of: 

• An international team, where you can gain new/relevant experience.
• A dynamic environment where you will never happen to fall into a routine work.
• Career path growth astounding – client grows, our team grow, you grow!
• Start-up agile atmosphere.
• Friendly international team of creative minds

And we offer even more!

🏥 Premium package private health insurance (for you, your spouse and children), insured sum of 100.000 EUR/year.

⏰ Flexible working hours and hybrid way of working (work from home and/or work from office)

👩‍⚕️100% paid sick leaves for a period not exceeding 30 calendar days

🎯 Fully covered certifications for technical roles in Salesforce, Adobe, Microsoft etc

🎓 Full access to Dentsu Academy, LinkedIn Learning, on-site learning sessions

🏝  25 days of vacation + 3 wellness days + 2 volunteer days

🎁 House of Benefit allowance

🍹 Team events: company parties, after hours gatherings, board games and team buildings

🥪 Snacks, fruits, and sweets in the office

🏀Fit Pass special offer for you and your partner/children

☀Rooftop lounge with an amazing view on whole Belgrade

🌇Office in the heart of Belgrade city centre

🏓Table tennis top, video games, karaoke set

💸 Referral bonus program

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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