Principal Project Manager

Celonis as a Principal Project Manager, where you will lead end-to-end implementations of our technology across our largest and most strategic customers. You will collaborate with Sales, Partners, and Value Engineering to establish Celonis' Services Value proposition and create statements of work with customers during the pre-sales phase.

Fluency in German is required, along with extensive experience in project management disciplines and client-facing project management experience in enterprise software implementations.

Responsibilities

• You will also manage multiple projects concurrently, ensuring they are delivered on time and meet customer requirements.
• Lead complex transformational customer programs, shape and define the project outcome and then steer towards it.
• Planning, scheduling, and management of project timelines and activities from project kick-off through to training, ensuring each project is delivered on time and meets the customers' requirements.
• Collaboration with senior executives, process owners and technical teams within each customer to understand their goals, objectives and requirements and to ensure their successful implementation.

Requirements

Fluency in German language is required

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or other related field
• Ability and willingness to be certified in Celonis products
• Experience in people managing consulting teams both onshore and offshore
• Extensive experience in project management disciplines, including documenting and maintaining project plans, risk/issue/action logs, and driving problem resolution in partnership with customers and Celonis executives
• A history of working with an ecosystem of partners and managed co-delivery
• Strong communication skills and a background in consulting with a proven ability to manage stakeholders and project timelines
• Experience in positioning Services, writing proposals and “statement of works” within a complete ecosystem (customers and partners)

Ability to effectively set and manage customer expectations

• Client-facing Project Management experience in enterprise software implementations, managing multiple projects concurrently
• Strong analytical skills, especially in applying technology solutions to core business problems

Preferred

• Project management certifications (PMP, Prince2, or Safe/Agile)