Project Manager

If you are looking for a meaningful job where people work and act with passion, rethink the existing and always strive to find the best solution – you have come to the right place. We develop future technologies to conquer supply chain complexity, together.

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Körber is the home for passionate people who innovate, collaborate and love what they do. Customer advocates, number crunchers or tech-pioneers: no matter which profession you contribute, we are looking for people who work and act with passion, rethink the existing and who always strive to find the best solution for our challenges. We develop future technologies and support talent to deploy their skills and reach their full potential. We aim for being the first to do the right thing at the right time.

Körber is a mission critical partner to the supply chain industry, recognized by Gartner and leading analysts.

An exciting opportunity to join a growing team, reporting directly to the Business Unit Manager, working on WMS and WCS projects within Northern Europe. You will lead projects from concept lock through to successful delivery and support handover, ensuring our customers’ expectations and needs are met, and costs and timelines are maintained and controlled.

Your role in our team

• Leading, both professional and technical implementation, of IT-software projects for Körber Supply Chain Software.
• As the responsible person in all project phases, you will create functional specifications together with our customers.
• You will be responsible for the technical management of the project team throughout all project phases (Design, Adaptation, Validation and Deployment).
• Highlight risks and dependencies and lead internal or external teams ensuring that risks are resolved or mitigated.
• As a technical expert, you will support the sales processes of our products and in the estimations process.
• Track progress effectively against the original timeline, cost, quality, and success metrics.
• Manage billing processes, maintaining keys aspects and processes within NetSuite tool.
• Effectively manage and engage with key stakeholders including customers, partners, and suppliers to ensure project cadence, governance and confidence are maintained throughout the project life cycle.
• First line of contact for customer requests and issues.
• Delivering products and services with a focus on customer satisfaction.
• Technical guidance of internal project team members and resource management.
• Leading status, steering and team meetings with regular project status reports.
• Support and development of internal project management processes.

Your Skills

• You have a strong track record of on-time, on-budget, and to-specification delivery of projects.
• Knowledge and/or experience of Supply Chain and Logistics operations and industry.
• Knowledge of a programming language as well as experience in dealing with databases is an advantage.
• Effective influencing skills and ability to manage relationships internally and externally.
• Strong analytical skills with understanding of the business impact of decisions.
• Self-motivated, energetic, and enthusiastic personality, ability to work independently.
• Thorough understanding of the project life cycle.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work with ambiguity and interpret to make sense which is relative.
• Experienced with key Microsoft tools.
• Willingness to travel, mainly within Europe, but may include further.

Desirable

• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Experience managing Agile and/or Non-Agile projects.
• Relevant professional qualification / certification.

Your Benefits

• Unique culture and awesome work environment.
• You will receive a competitive salary including a potential for bonuses.
• You will have a flexible office/work from home schedule.
• You will be working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, with international clients and colleagues.
• Career & development opportunities.

The Körber Business Area Supply Chain is part of the international technology group Körber with about 12,000 employees and more than 100 locations worldwide. We uniquely provide a broad range of proven, end-to-end supply chain solutions fitting any business size, strategy, or appetite for growth. Our customers conquer the complexity of the supply chain thanks to our portfolio that includes software, automation, mail and parcel solutions, voice solutions, robotics, and materials handling – plus the expertise to tie it all together. Körber helps to manage the supply chain as a competitive advantage. Conquer supply chain complexity – with Körber.

Help enable those who move goods to do good by contributing your skills and individual viewpoints in a highly collaborative, caring team environment.

Körber Supply Chain Software better enables those who move goods to do good when we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion. It’s better for our people, better for our business, and better for the world. That’s why at Körber we cultivate and celebrate our colleagues’ experiences and perspectives, whether they look, think, move, believe, or love differently than us. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment and pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply and all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to gender and identity, age, race, religion, ethnicity, ancestry, sexual orientation or expression, disability, or veteran status.