Lenovo

Lenovo is the Number 1 Supercomputing provider in the world measured by Top 500 entries, and we keep going. Our Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) team is dedicated to fostering an environment that encourages entrepreneurism and ownership - a workplace where your talents can be challenged, and your efforts recognized and rewarded.

We are looking for a seasoned Technical Project Manager based in Germany to join its Global HPC Professional Services team.

This position represents a rewarding opportunity to use your experience and skills in a dynamic, complex organization and to deliver across our major customer sites.

This is a remote position that can be based anywhere in Germany.

Responsibilities:

You will be assigned one or more projects concurrently, and will be responsible to manage the schedule, budget, and resources within the Project.  Typical projects last 3 months to several years and may involve 3rd party resources as part of project. Primary customer base is in Germany, but you will be joining a global team, and will manage projects globally as needed. English and German speaking skills are required.

You will use basic to advance project management fundamentals to plan, monitor, and close the project.

Activities include:

• Identifying dependencies for project
• Creating WBS and monitoring status versus baseline
• Monitoring budget of project versus original costing
• Forming and executing risk-management strategies
• Communicating project status
• Some travel to client sites required (25% to 40% travel expected in Germany and globally)

Skills and Qualifications Required:

• 3+ years technical project management experience, gained in a technical environment, ideally in the information technology and high performance computing services industry
• Excellent inter-personal skills and strong relationship building
• Superior organizational skills
• Project Management Certification in (e.g., PMBoK, PRINCE2, PMI, PMP etc.)
• Experience of working with Agile or Scrum methodologies
• Ability to coordinate and leading activities of a small to large team and interface constructively with our HPC services stakeholders, including 3rd party suppliers
• Professional writing, intended for status reports and project communications
• English and German communication (written, spoken) required 
• Strong experience of using MS Project and MS Office
• Experience of developing technical specifications from user requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

• Project management certification
• Training or experience in negotiation
• Training or experience in project accounting

An ideal candidate is innovative and creative while taking high degree or project ownership.

Additionally, you should have proficient customer interaction skills and the capacity to make informed technical decisions, collaborate during projects with several organization verticals, partners, and customers, develop training and knowledge base documentation for technical project management skills throughout career.

What We Will Offer You:

• Employee Share Purchase Plan  
• Employee Assistance Program, e.g., for health, legal & financial consultancy  
• Pension Plan  
• Meal Allowance / Lunch Vouchers 
• Internal E-learning Development Platform Available for Employees  
• Specialized Development Trainings (based on nomination process) 
• Employees Groups (LGBT+, WILL, etc.) 
• Opportunity to Join/Create Employees Groups (inclusivity, well-being, sports, volunteering, charity, etc.) 
• Job Rad (Bike Leasing)