Project Manager Customer Projects
Rolls-Royce
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Project Manager Customer Projects at Rolls-Royce
At Rolls-Royce, we offer exciting opportunities to lead complex and extensive customer projects with significant revenue targets throughout their complete lifecycle, from order acceptance to customer handover. You will be instrumental in applying the Deming Cycle principles to manage deadlines, costs, and performance delivery.
Responsibilities – What to expect:
- Leadership of extensive, complex customer projects with high revenue targets throughout the complete life cycle from order acceptance to customer acceptance.
- Application of the Deming Cycle with regard to deadlines, costs, and performance delivery.
- This includes:
- Definition of project structures and design of the structural plan.
- Definition and agreement of work packages, e.g., definition of scope of delivery, demarcation of deliveries, determination of target costs and deadlines, definition and determination of conditions.
- Creation and coordination of the schedule and determination of contractual key points.
- Review of interim results in the project process based on milestones.
- Initiation of corrective measures and coordination with the regional sales organization, customers, contractual partners, suppliers, and internal departments.
- Subsequent adjustment of the project status and process.
- Ensuring project controlling to achieve economic targets.
- Management of contractual partners regarding interfaces, deadlines, and services.
- Contribution to the continuous improvement of project tools and methods.
- Leading an (potentially international) project team.
Qualifications – What we're looking for:
- Successfully completed engineering degree or comparable qualification.
- Several years of experience in project management, ideally a certified project manager according to IPMA.
- Competence in leading interdisciplinary teams.
- Experience in government business.
- Experience in dealing with other cultures.
- Very good German and English language skills, both written and spoken; additional languages are a plus.
- Cross-divisional networked thinking and assertiveness.
- Independent, structured, and goal-oriented way of working, as well as organizational talent.
- Willingness to travel.
Why Rolls-Royce Power Systems – What we offer:
- Healthy and fair working conditions through collective bargaining agreements (Metal and Electrical Industry).
- Company health insurance BKK MTU for our employees and family members.
- Extensive company health management, including a corporate fitness program (EGYM Wellpass).
- Attractive company pension scheme – Save for retirement with us!
- Occupational disability insurance – Protection for all eventualities!
- Mobility support in everyday life – JobTicket and Jobrad.
- Corporate Benefits Program – Attractive employee discounts on numerous strong brands.
We are an employer committed to equal opportunities. We are committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people with different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we will be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Key skills/competency
- Project Management
- Deming Cycle
- Stakeholder Management
- Team Leadership
- Contract Management
- Project Controlling
- Intercultural Communication
- Negotiation Skills
- German Language
- English Language
How to Get Hired at Rolls-Royce
- Research Rolls-Royce's culture: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
- Tailor your resume: Customize your resume to highlight extensive project management experience, team leadership, and cross-cultural communication skills relevant to Rolls-Royce's projects.
- Showcase your impact: Quantify your achievements in past project management roles, emphasizing successful project delivery, cost savings, and adherence to timelines using the Deming Cycle.
- Prepare for technical and behavioral questions: Be ready to discuss your experience with complex project lifecycles, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and leading diverse, interdisciplinary teams at Rolls-Royce.
- Demonstrate language proficiency: Emphasize your very good German and English skills, as well as any other relevant language or intercultural experiences crucial for Rolls-Royce's international customer projects.
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