Project Director, PMO

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🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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NAPA

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51 - 200 employees

🚀 Aerospace

Aerospace

NAPA is an independent software house that has been providing high-end software solutions for ship design and operation for over 30 years. The company specializes in naval architecture and offers services that include software development and data analysis specifically tailored for the marine industry. Known for its innovative 3D product modelling technologies, NAPA aims to create genuine added value for its clients by closely collaborating with them to meet their needs and incorporate practical experience into its offerings.

📋 Description

• Own the project management practice for NAPA Safety Solutions • Define, introduce and embed a common way of running projects • Establish standards, coaching, transparency and progressively agreed governance • Lead selected complex projects or programs directly • Work across all Safety Solutions teams involved in project delivery and with account teams • Support and coach project managers and build a project management community of practice • Provide portfolio-level visibility and resource-load transparency to leadership • Own the end-to-end project management process, including stage gates, decision rights, roles, responsibilities and expectations • Improve information flow across sales and account teams, project execution, service and support • Establish the client communication and expectation-management model across project stages • Develop the project delivery toolset, templates and standards • Lead change management, adoption, lessons learned and continuous improvement • Develop project management capability and career paths based on the IPMA training program • Create and implement a documented project management process with clear steps, stage gates, responsibilities and expectations • Define functioning handovers from account team to delivery and from delivery to service and support • Build templates for charters, plans, status, handover and closure, plus portfolio and resource-load visibility • Run pilot projects, coaching, a project manager community and a lessons-learned loop

🎯 Requirements

• Master's degree in engineering, technology, business or an equivalent field, or equivalent experience • At least 10 years of experience leading large, complex, multi-stakeholder projects or programs, with clear personal accountability for outcomes • Experience designing and documenting a project management process, including stage gates, decision rights and responsibility models, and implementing it in an organization • Experience owning the full project lifecycle from pre-sales and scoping through delivery and handover into service and support • Track record with programs involving repeated deliveries to the same customer across multiple sites, units or vessels • Experience leading projects delivered through several internal teams and subcontractors without line authority • Fluency in scope, schedule, cost, risk, quality, resource and dependency management • Experience in change management and adoption, including coaching project managers, building a community of practice and measuring adoption • Ability to lead without direct authority; credibility with senior technical experts; experience with distributed, multicultural teams • Customer-facing and stakeholder skills at project and steering group level • Comfortable using English daily, in writing and conversation • Located and eligible to work in Germany • Recognized senior-level project management certification such as IPMA Level B or A or PMP is advantageous • Experience in company transition from small and hands-on to larger and more structured is a strong advantage • Commercial and contractual competence, including scope change, variation handling, acceptance criteria and penalties, is advantageous • Project recovery experience is advantageous • Working knowledge of IPMA, PMI and ITIL and familiarity with P3M3 or IPMA Delta is advantageous • Experience with project and portfolio planning, resource planning and reporting tools such as Power BI or equivalent is advantageous • Comfort working in a Microsoft 365 environment is advantageous • Change management certification such as Prosci, or process improvement credentials such as Lean or Six Sigma, is advantageous • Hybrid delivery experience is a plus • Jira and Confluence workflow-design-level skills are a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time, permanent position • Meaningful work contributing to safer and greener vessels and a sustainable maritime industry • Close, long-lasting relationships with customers • Trust-based co-leadership philosophy • Learning from and respecting colleagues in a healthy and pleasant working environment • Diverse, global team with opportunities to meet people from many different cultures