The Project Manager leads cross-functional programs from initiation through successful implementation, ensuring alignment between customer expectations, business objectives, and operational execution. Working across engineering, quality, manufacturing, supply chain, commercial, and customer teams, the role drives project delivery, manages risks and priorities, and enables effective decision-making to achieve schedule, cost, quality, and performance targets.

General Responsibilities
• Meet with clients to take detailed ordering briefs and clarify specific requirements of each project
• Defines project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
• Develops comprehensive project plans and manages all implementation processes including resource allocation, progress tracking, monitoring change control process, testing, documentation, training, and status reports
• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
• Ensure resource availability and allocation
• Track project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short- and long-term goals
• Make adjustments to project constraints based on financial analysis
• Regularly communicates and presents project schedules and statuses
• Report and escalate to management as needed
• Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks

Experience / Qualifications
• A university degree required (i.e. Bachelors degree) or equivalent relevant work experience.
• Must be a team player able to work in a fast-paced environment with demonstrated ability to handle multiple competing tasks and demands
• Strong communication skills; oral, written and presentation
• Strong organization, planning and time management skills to achieve results
• Strong personal and professional ethical values and integrity
• Holds self-accountable to achieving goals and standards
• Proficient in Microsoft Office programs (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)
• Strong interpersonal & collaboration skills to work effectively with all levels of the organization including suppliers and/or external customers

Required

• 5+ years of project, program, product development, or launch management experience within automotive, electronics, industrial manufacturing, mechatronics, or a related engineering environment.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional product development projects from concept through production launch.
• Experience working directly with automotive OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers, or other complex industrial customers.
• Strong understanding of New Product Development (NPD), industrialization, and production launch processes.
• Demonstrated success managing project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, changes, and customer commitments throughout the project lifecycle.
• Experience managing project financial performance, including forecasts, business case impacts, and change approvals.
• Ability to lead project teams without direct reporting authority and drive accountability across engineering, quality, manufacturing, supply chain, and commercial functions.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities in a global environment.
• Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and escalation management skills in technically complex situations.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage technical teams, customers, and senior leadership.

Strongly Preferred

• Experience applying APQP, PPAP, customer milestone reviews, and automotive launch processes.
• Understanding of automotive quality systems, including IATF 16949 and customer-specific requirements.
• Experience with engineering change management, product lifecycle management (PLM), and configuration management processes.
• Experience supporting manufacturing readiness, production launch, and operational handoff activities.
• Experience leading development programs across multiple regions and globally distributed engineering teams.
• Technical background in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline.
• PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project management certification.

Preferred Tools & Methods

• Microsoft Project, Jira, Agile PPM, or equivalent project management tools.
• Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid product development methodologies.
• Project governance frameworks, gate reviews, and launch readiness assessments.
• Requirements management, requirements traceability, and engineering documentation control systems.
• Product lifecycle management (PLM) and engineering change control tools.

Gross Annual Salary Range:

31,700.00 EUR - 43,587.50 EUR

The salary range is published in line with the EU Pay Transparency Directive and relevant country legislation.

Starting Salary

The starting salary offered will be based on objective, gender-neutral criteria , (e.g internal equivalency, relevant skills, experience, qualifications etc.). Applicants will not be asked for salary history.

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