Manager Global Project Management Office

Körber is the home for passionate people who innovate, collaborate and love what they do. Entrepreneurial spirit is our joint DNA. We develop future technologies and support talents to deploy their skills and reach their full potential. We combine our strong heritage with our understanding for local specifics and a global mindset to bring people together and create valuable solutions for our customers. We aim for being the first to do the right thing at the right time.

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Our team

Our Global Services Organization combines and orchestrates all services to implement Körbers business leading MES software to the pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturing industry. We take care for seamless implementation based on industry standard project management methods and delivery models. Project performance and customer satisfaction are key.

Our aim is to enhance our Project Management capabilities and skills. Therefore, we plan to introduce the role of a Senior Manager for our Global Project management Office (PMO).

Your role in our team

In your role as Manager, you will oversee the following key strategic responsibilities:

- You optimize and accelerate our project and service delivery

- You take ownership on a global governance framework, establishing clear governance structures and policies, risk- as well as change management

- You will work with a cross-functional team and measure success by efficiency increase and quantifiable cost-reduction

- You act as the key interface between executive leadership, and global business functions, ensuring transparency, strategic alignment, and timely decision-making

- You ensure project and service delivery align with the organization’s strategic goals

- You are responsible for global harmonization and standardization of processes, implementing consistent project management methodologies across regions

- You will translate regional requirements into solutions, facilitating effective communication across different time zones and cultures

- You will setup a global, reliable resource management report

You will further support regional adaptation by driving the implementation of process standards and consistent project reporting:

- You will manage, monitor and implement performance metrics, tracking and reporting on project and service performance

- You will implement initiatives of high strategic importance striving for process excellence

- You will organize and teach best practices providing ongoing training and development for project managers

- You will constantly seek ways to improve processes and project / service delivery

- You will collaborate among clients and internal teams for problem resolution

- You will detect, investigate and optimize non-functioning processes

- You will analyze and enhance efficiency, stability and scalability of client systems

Your profile

- You are excited about joining the home for entrepreneurs

- You have excellent communication skills and are at native-speaker level in English, third language preferred

- You work and act with passion, rethink the existing and always strive to find the best solution for our challenges

- You have a proven ability to engage with and influence senior stakeholders across global organizations

- You demonstrate ambition through a dedication to excellence, seeking opportunities to grow, and ongoing self-improvement

- You have a degree in Economics, Information Management, or a related discipline (or equivalent)

- You have experience managing complex, international programs, ideally within the pharmaceutical or life sciences industry

- You have experience in working in a matrix organization, balancing corporate and local priorities

- You have Project management certifications (e.g., PMI, PRINCE2)

- You have strong written and verbal communication skills including technical writing skills

- You have solid analytical skills

Körber Business Area Pharma is the leading provider for MES software to the pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturing industry. Our first in class Werum PAS-X software offering allows our customers to control and record the making of life saving therapies to ensure the best possible business and patient outcomes. We are seeking talented individuals as we look to transform our business and products to meet the constantly shifting demands of the ongoing revolution in factory digitization and automation.

- You will work in a modern work environment with open culture towards improvements and new ideas.

- You are part of a global operating company with a wide customer basis and a growing business.

- You profit from international cooperation within group-expert network to implement corporate wide concepts.

- You will work in a team who is focusing on customer requirements, service excellence and continuous improvement.

We are Körber – an international technology group with around 13,000 employees at over 100 locations worldwide and a common goal: we turn entrepreneurial thinking into customer success and shape technological change. In our Business Areas Pharma, Supply Chain, and Technologies, we deliver products, solutions and services that inspire and create added value for customers. We build ecosystems that solve the challenges of today and tomorrow. Körber AG is the holding company of the Körber Group.

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