As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead and govern large-scale HR IT transformation and migration initiatives, ensuring strategic alignment, disciplined delivery, stakeholder engagement, and successful implementation of complex, cross-functional programs. The role requires proven major project management experience, German language capability, and exposure to SAP migration or SAP-enabled transformation projects.

1. Major Project & Program Leadership

·        Lead large, complex, multi-year HR IT transformation and migration projects across countries, functions, and delivery partners

·        Translate strategic objectives into delivery plans, milestones, governance routines, and measurable outcomes

·        Drive end-to-end project execution with strong focus on scope, timeline, budget, risks, dependencies, and benefits realization

2.Governance & Delivery Management

Manage a portfolio of major initiatives, including SAP migration or SAP-enabled HR transformation projects

·        Coordinate project streams such as business readiness, process alignment, data migration, testing, cutover, hypercare, and integration dependencies

·        Ensure structured governance, transparent reporting, decision tracking, and escalation management

·        Apply hybrid project management methodologies (Agile / Waterfall) pragmatically according to project context

3. IT provider Relationship Management

·        Coordinate vendor and delivery-partner management together with DT IT, project teams, and implementation partners within ongoing HR IT programs

·        Facilitate decision-making with senior leadership on roadmap, prioritization, resources, budgets, and delivery trade-offs

·        Ensure strong stakeholder engagement at executive level, including steering committee preparation and board-level reporting where required

4. SAP Migration Exposure & Solution Coordination

·        Work effectively with SAP functional and technical experts to understand migration impacts, dependencies, and implementation risks

·        Coordinate solution feasibility discussions, integration dependencies, testing readiness, and cutover planning without requiring deep SAP configuration ownership

5. Risk, Compliance & Change Management

·        Own program-level risk, issue, dependency, compliance, and data-protection tracking for HR IT and SAP-related initiatives

Ensure delivery decisions are documented, compliant, scalable, and aligned with enterprise standards while avoiding unnecessary complexity

Experience and Skills required

·        Minimum 5 years of experience managing large-scale, complex transformation or major IT projects, ideally in HR IT or enterprise environments

·        Proven exposure to SAP migration, SAP implementation, or SAP-enabled transformation projects; deep SAP configuration expertise is not required

·        Strong experience leading cross-country, multi-stakeholder initiatives with significant business, IT, vendor, and change-management complexity

·        Experience with hybrid project management methodologies; strong planning, analytical, problem-solving, and delivery-management skills

·        Excellent communication, negotiation, stakeholder management, and executive reporting skills

-Fluent in English and German; ability to operate confidently in German-speaking business and project environments.