Project Manager Strategic Projects Digital Solutions (m/w/x)

Trust something new, grow beyond itself and redefine the boundaries of the feasible. That is exactly what our employees can and should live daily. To set the pace with our innovations and make it great. Because there are a lot of fascinating people behind every successful company. ZEISS employees work in an open and modern environment with numerous development and further training opportunities. Our culture is characterized by expert knowledge and team spirit. All this is supported by the special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl-Zeiss Foundation: to advance science and society together.

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Diversity is part of ZEISS. We look forward to your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, world view, disability, age as well as sexual orientation and identity.

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Enabler for smaller, more powerful and more energy-efficient microchips.

Work where the morning arises.

What can't be missing from a smartphone? Exactly, the microchip – the heart of any electronically controlled system. About 80 percent of all microchips worldwide are manufactured using ZEISS technologies. ZEISS is a technology leader in semiconductor manufacturing equipment. With high-precision lithography optics, photomask systems and solutions for process control, ZEISS enables the production of increasingly smaller, more powerful and more energy-efficient microchips – and thus decisively shapes the age of microelectronics and nanoelectronics with its innovations.

The heart of digitalization beats here!

Trust something new, grow beyond itself and redefine the boundaries of the feasible. This is what we live at ZEISS. As a technology leader, ZEISS SMT develops and produces the world's most modern optical systems for key processes in the semiconductor industry. Thanks to our technologies, chips are becoming smaller, more powerful, more energy-efficient and cheaper. This gives us an important contribution to digitalization, which is already changing the whole world today. Our colleagues bundle unique know-how in IT, development and production and are the driving force for our success as a high-tech company. Innovation also has a tradition with us. About 30 percent of our employees work in research and development.

Do you want to drive the digital transformation with us? Then, as project manager “Strategic Projects” (m/w/x) in full-time (hybrid) in the field of Digital Processes & Solutions, support the development of diverse software solutions for the operating and measuring devices of our production.

They lead strategic projects in the field of digital solutions within research and development (R&D) with the aim of establishing new business processes or optimizing existing processes

They are responsible for the project budget (~10mi€) and lead the project teams to a common strategy taking into account time costs and scope

formulate and calculate the business case for each work package and track the return on investment of the project

They perform an interdisciplinary project team, coach the team members, coordinate, coordinate and moderate problems during the project process

They identify project risks, communicate actively and develop risk mitigation strategies

They support the design of processes and develop key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure process performance

They identify, categorize and bind stakeholders continuously and strategically

They regularly and professionally report on project status in the Steering Committee (DTO, higher management level)

Together with executives, you work on developing and implementing strategies throughout the organization

academic qualification: They have a master's degree or diploma degree in natural sciences or engineering, technology, business informatics or computer science. MBA is advantageous

Professional experience: at least 10 years of professional experience in the field of project management/direction of larger strategic projects (> 15 employees, ideally in organisational and digitization projects)

Project Management competencies: Comprehensive skills in project management, including agile methods with certification according to PMP/IPMA standard.

personal characteristics: safe occurrence, high communication and enforcement ability to successfully convey changes and convince stakeholders

Empathy and conflict resolution: Empathically and humanly focused, able to resolve conflicts, promote readiness to change and support a positive corporate culture

Expertise: Understanding ALM (Application Lifecycle Management), Enterprise Architecture Management and IT Process Frameworks such as ITIL

Operation: Target-oriented, independent, structured and proactive

Change Management: Methodology competence in the field of change management and organisational development is advantageous

Language knowledge: Very good knowledge of German and English in word and writing (C1-C2)

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