Strategy & Transformation Project Manager
MANN+HUMMEL
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Ludwigsburg • Germany
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About the role
- Translate strategic corporate goals into impactful, operational project plans and ensure that results fully reflect the company’s strategic direction
- Lead, empower, and coach interdisciplinary project teams to foster a productive and motivating team environment
- Plan tasks, organize regular team meetings, and ensure clear and purpose‑driven communication
- Provide transparent status reporting, actively manage risks, and steer corrective actions to ensure project success
- Take responsibility for project budgeting, resource planning and allocation, and economic assessments in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders
- Support organizational change initiatives in cooperation with additional experts
- Derive “lessons learned” to support the long-term improvement of our project landscape
- Coach and support other project managers in business units, Operations, and central functions in planning and executing strategic initiatives
Requirements
- Successfully completed university degree in Business Administration, (Industrial) Engineering, Management, or a comparable field
- At least 10 years of experience managing complex projects in an international environment
- Strong knowledge of project management methodologies, agile frameworks, and modern project tools
- Solid understanding of change management and hands-on experience in transformation processes
- Business‑fluent English skills
- Strong analytical skills and a highly solution-oriented mindset
- Confident in handling complex and dynamic environments
- Excellent presentation and communication abilities
- Strategic, results-oriented working style and strong self-motivation
- Proactive, team-oriented personality with a confident and professional presence toward stakeholders
- Genuine enthusiasm for driving change and actively engaging across all levels of the organization
Benefits
- You work with a high degree of autonomy and decision-making freedom
- Performance-based compensation and comprehensive social benefits
- Flexible working hours/trust-based working time, plus 30 days of vacation
- Hybrid working option for employees with children under 12 years: 3 days in Ludwigsburg, 2 days remote; otherwise, 5 days in Ludwigsburg
- Everyone has Talent: Our talent management process supports your professional development
- In-house company restaurant
- Reserved places in a private daycare center nearby (for both under-3 and over-3 children)
- A modern company pension plan to complement your statutory pension insurance
- Additional private health insurance (e.g., dental insurance)
- A wide range of discounts through our Corporate Benefits Portal (e.g., on vacations, fashion, insurance, etc.)
- Mobility benefits: subsidy for the Germany Ticket, JobRad leasing, and e-charging stations in the free company parking garage with a company charging rate
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
project managementagile frameworkschange managementbudgetingresource planningeconomic assessmentsanalytical skillstransformation processesstrategic planningproject tools
Soft skills
leadershipcoachingcommunicationteam-orientedproblem-solvingpresentation skillsself-motivationproactiveinterpersonal skillsenthusiasm for change