The IT Business Development Team mainly supports +40 Development Teams at ABOUT YOU Tech in structuring and optimizing their projects and processes. To achieve this they closely work with the top management and the Tech & Product Leads of the company. The team’s projects vary a lot e.g. external software selection and migrations, cost center planning topics, IT investment cases, cost saving, process implementation, and change projects.

In the role of IT Project Manager, you will oversee a wide range of cross-functional IT projects and spearhead change management initiatives. Your role will be diverse and impactful.

Do you enjoy facing new challenges, and are eager to learn and pick up a wide range of different topics, processes, and projects that involve state-of-the-art technology? Do you like to continuously increase output, realize learnings, and don’t have a problem with quick topic switches? Then you are the perfect match for this Team!

What you will do

- Lead multiple tech projects with a wide variety and a duration between 4 weeks and 6 months, while maintaining and improving a very high project management standard within the company.

- Gain invaluable insights into a wide array of projects across the ABOUT YOU group, working with the latest technologies and tools to support our 40+ Tech Teams.

- Improving our tech organization e.g. by lean process optimization, enable automations, improving/reviewing our software tool landscape, IT service supplier contract management and negotiation, optimizing our cost structure, and other projects that are often sponsored by upper management.

- Collaborate with tech leads and top management to discuss, align, and report project status regularly, ensuring transparency and accountability.

- Be a problem-solver and change agent, finding efficient & pragmatic solutions to blockers and helping establish agile processes within our teams.

- We value continuous learning, reflecting, knowledge sharing, and being the go-to team for blockers and impediments, to then enable our tech teams to help themselves.

- Based on agile/scrum working way we ensure continuous improvements within the teams e.g. moderating regular retrospectives to improve the status quo and helping with change management.

Who you are

- For a Mid-Level IT Project Manager Role: At least 2 years of experience in agile IT project management

- For a Senior IT Project Manager Position: At least 4 years of experience in agile IT project management

- Proficient in managing IT projects using agile methodologies e.g. external software implementation, projects related to cost optimization, or process implementations

- Capable of effectively communicating and managing stakeholders at all levels, including C-level executives

- Strong on-point communication skills in English and German

- Analytical, structured, and efficient task management approach while keeping the focus on the set goals

- IT knowledge e.g. experience with APIs, SQL, managing IT tools, or IT infrastructure projects(e.g., AWS) would be helpful

- Proficiency in MS Office, particularly Excel

YOU ARE THE CORE OF ABOUT YOU.
We take responsibility for creating an inclusive and exceptional environment where all genders, nationalities and ethnicities feel welcomed and accepted exactly as they are. We believe that a diverse workforce essentially contributes to the ABOUT YOU culture. In order to maintain talent and diversity, we emphasize the care for physical health, mental health and overall well-being. Our values and work ethics essentially contribute to our brand mission: empower acceptance and shape an inclusive, fair and circular fashion culture.

We are looking forward to receiving your application – preferably via our online application portal! Thus, we can ensure a faster process and for you it is very easy to upload your application documents.