PMO Consultant – SAP/Windchill

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Create, sustain, and regularly refine the integrated project plan

• Monitor project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and critical tasks

• Aggregate progress updates from various teams and workstreams

• Recognize schedule discrepancies, delivery risks, and possible delays, and escalate these to project leadership

• Maintain project trackers to ensure clear visibility of overall delivery progress

• Organize and lead project meetings, governance meetings, and workshops

• Prepare meeting agendas in collaboration with project leadership

• Record discussions, decisions, risks, issues, and action items

• Create and distribute meeting minutes while managing action and open-item registers

• Follow up with stakeholders to guarantee timely completion of actions

• Compile weekly and monthly project status reports and management presentations

• Assist with Steering Committee meetings and executive reporting

• Develop executive summaries, KPI dashboards, and decision-support materials

• Consolidate project metrics and status updates across various workstreams

• Maintain reporting on project progress, milestones, risks, issues, and dependencies

• Regularly update the project Risk Register and Issue Log

• Coordinate mitigation efforts with internal Single Points of Contact (SPOCs)

• Track actions until resolution and report overdue or critical items

• Facilitate communication and information flow between SAP, Windchill, Middleware, Business, and Service teams

• Organize cross-functional workshops, alignment sessions, and project meetings

• Keep an overview of interface dependencies, stakeholder responsibilities, and pending topics

• Ensure consistent communication and timely escalation of project updates

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in PMO, project management, or programme management within complex international IT settings

• Demonstrated experience in cross-functional stakeholder coordination and project governance

• Experience in supporting governance boards, Steering Committees, and executive-level reporting

• Strong skills in project planning, progress tracking, meeting facilitation, and reporting

• Experience in managing risks, issues, dependencies, and actions

• Excellent proficiency in written and spoken English

• Working knowledge of German

• Advanced skills in Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, and project planning tools

• Strong organizational, analytical, communication, and problem-solving abilities

• Preferred: Experience in supporting IT programmes, transformation initiatives, or global modernization projects

• Preferred: Familiarity with SAP and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems

• Preferred: Experience with PTC Windchill and SAP/Windchill interface or integration projects

• Preferred: Understanding of enterprise integration, middleware, and interface dependencies

• Preferred: Experience in manufacturing, industrial, or engineering settings

• Preferred: Strong background in project governance and management reporting

🏝️ Benefits

• Engagement as a freelancer or independent contractor

• 12-month contract duration

• 40 hours of work per week