In this role, you connect commercial customer requirements with operational capabilities and transparent financial project management. Working closely with Sales, Operations, and other key functions, you establish the structures and standards required for successful project execution across the group.
Organization & Leadership
- You build a group-wide project management organization with consistent standards, clear responsibilities, and defined decision-making and escalation processes.
- At the same time, you lead and further develop the international project management team.
- You take responsibility for the integrated management of strategic and complex customer projects – from acquisition through production and delivery to technical and commercial project completion.
- Already during the bidding phase, you work closely with Sales, support complex tenders, and assess feasibility, capacities, timelines, costs, and risks before contract award.
- In addition, you ensure a structured handover from Sales to Operations, including clearly defined contractual and project data, delivery schedules, responsibilities, and financial targets.
- In close coordination with customers and Operations, you coordinate and monitor construction schedules, production plans, and delivery schedules.
- You identify capacity constraints and scheduling conflicts at an early stage and actively drive their resolution.
- You manage project margins, cost forecasts, cash flow, and working capital, ensuring continuous transparency on the financial performance of projects.
- Together with Sales and Finance, you establish a structured change and claims management process.
- As a key interface, you coordinate collaboration across Sales, Customer Service, Engineering, Procurement, Production, Logistics, and Finance.
- You ensure that deviations are consistently addressed, escalated where necessary, and systematically followed up.
- You establish a group-wide project portfolio with transparent reporting on timelines, capacities, risks, and financial performance.
- In addition, you ensure structured project completion and the consistent application of lessons learned.
