Freelance Project Manager – LATAM

🔥 12 hours ago

🌐 Colombia, Brazil, +3 more countries – Remote

🇨🇴 Colombia – Remote 🇧🇷 Brazil – Remote 🇨🇱 Chile – Remote 🇨🇷 Costa Rica – Remote 🇵🇪 Peru – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👷‍♀️ Project Manager

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Cuculus GmbH

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2007

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

💰 Venture Round on 2021-01

Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

Cuculus GmbH is a company based in Ilmenau, Germany, specializing in providing innovative software solutions tailored for the utility sector. The company is focused on making energy and water more affordable and accessible through its cutting-edge technology, addressing utility challenges today and in the future. Cuculus is renowned for its ZONOS IoT Platform, which manages large amounts of metering devices and processes billions of data sets, facilitating smart metering and smart grid solutions. The platform is designed to be flexible, adaptable, and sustainable, catering to the varying needs of utility providers. With a global team that understands diverse market challenges, Cuculus collaborates with partners to develop progressive solutions for the energy industry, promoting sustainability and efficiency in resource management.

📋 Description

• Plan and steer smart metering projects end-to-end across Latin America • Track milestones, report project status, and manage delays • Protect agreed project scope and manage customer change requests • Identify when additional modules or licences are needed • Manage utility stakeholders, local partners, international project teams, and internal technical teams • Drive deliverables and technical clarifications with engineering and delivery teams • Present to customers, run project meetings, and represent Cuculus on site • Identify new needs and opportunities beyond project scope and hand them to the LATAM Sales team • Travel regularly to customer sites, approximately 1 week per month

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of project management experience • Experience independently leading complex customer projects • Experience handling scope disputes, change requests, demanding customers, and project budgets • Experience in IT, software, telecom, smart metering, or AMI environments • Hands-on experience with project management tools, ideally MS Project • Business-fluent Spanish and English (B2-C1) • Confident customer presentation skills and ability to handle difficult conversations • Ability to work independently and reliably overlap with European business hours • Willingness to travel approximately 1 week per month within Latin America • Experience in technical sales or presales is a nice-to-have • Experience managing projects for utilities or energy companies is a nice-to-have • Portuguese is helpful for future Brazil projects • Familiarity with AMI systems, MDMS, DLMS/COSEM, or RF Mesh is a nice-to-have • Knowledge of utility standards and regulations in Latin America is a nice-to-have

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time 40-hour engagement • Freelance engagement until the end of 2027, with intention to continue beyond that • Remote and flexible work from the home country • Flexible hours across European and Latin American time zones • Travel costs covered • Short decision-making paths • Open feedback culture and genuine trust • Structured onboarding • Meaningful work with software shaping the energy market