Strategic Project Manager (ERP Automation)

Location: Hybrid, full-time based in Munich or Cologne, Germany, with regular in-person collaboration at regional hubs and the Zurich HQ; minimum one month of onboarding in Zurich and occasional customer visits across the DACH region.

Company

SaaS scale-up providing an agentic platform that automates finance and operations processes for enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Run customer implementations end to end, from kick-off and scope definition through planning, configuration, testing, go-live, and handover.
• Manage several customer engagements in parallel while maintaining delivery dates and budgets.
• Coordinate Integrations Engineers, Technical Project Managers, AI Automation Specialists, consultants, and customer stakeholders.
• Protect scope, identify process assumptions and change requests early, and escalate delivery risks with proposed solutions.
• For strategic programs, lead multi-country and multi-entity rollouts across multiple ERPs, drive first go-live and subsequent waves, and run steering committees.
• Lead delivery teams, coach Project Managers, and create recovery plans for programs that are off track.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience delivering complex projects in management consulting, enterprise software implementation, or large-scale transformation delivery.
• Proven experience running multi-country or multi-entity programs with senior client stakeholders and steering committees that include client executives.
• Experience leading a delivery team, not only managing a project plan.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, including translating business needs into actionable technical requirements.
• Fluent German and English, spoken and written.
• Ability to manage scope, take ownership, escalate early with proposals, maintain client confidence, and stay structured under pressure.

Nice to have

• ERP implementation experience.
• Experience with finance or supply chain processes.
• Experience with AI-driven SaaS.

Culture & Benefits

• High-ownership environment with structured career progression and opportunities to move into Consulting or Customer Success Engineering.
• Cross-functional work with engineers, data scientists, and business leaders on automation for global enterprises.
• Majority employee-owned company with a stock option program.
• Paid visits and stays at the Zurich HQ, including team days, all-hands, and offsites.
• Continuous learning opportunities and exposure to AI technology.