Posted 8 weeks ago

Principal Project Manager

Celonis

London, England, United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Onsite
Full Time

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As a Principal Project Manager, you will support end-to-end implementations of Celonis’ technology across our largest and most strategic customers
You will articulate Celonis’ product positioning to customers and collaborate with Sales, Partners and Value Engineering to establish Celonis’ Services Value proposition and create statements of work with customers during the pre-sales phase
In this role, you will assist customers in understanding how to build best practice and enduring capabilities, are responsible for identifying further Services needs by the customer whilst engaged and responsible for customer satisfaction throughout a customer’s engagement with Celonis
Lead complex transformational customer programs, shape and define the project outcome and then steer towards it
Planning, scheduling, and management of project timelines and activities from project kick-off through to training, ensuring each project is delivered on time and meets the customers’ requirements
Manage resources, schedule, scope and budget on multiple projects by creating and maintaining detailed project plans that emphasize speed to delivery and maximise the efficient use of resources needed to meet the requirements
Collaboration with senior executives, process owners and technical teams within each customer to understand their goals, objectives and requirements and to ensure their successful implementation. You will be their primary point of contact for product feature requests and escalation of support issues
Regularly communicate project status, covering key discussion items, action items, risks and issues. Keep projects up to date in the Celonis Professional Services Automation System to enable accurate and timely project and portfolio reporting
Proactively manage and escalate risks and issues internally to Celonis management and externally to customer project sponsors to minimize impact to project success
Provide guidance and mentoring to the implementation team, including partner resources, to ensure Celonis methodology is being followed
Use your experience to contribute to the continual improvement of Celonis Services methods as well as the maturing field expertise and best practices
Fluency in German language is required
Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or other related field
Ability and willingness to be certified in Celonis products
Experience in people managing consulting teams both onshore and offshore
Extensive experience in project management disciplines, including documenting and maintaining project plans, risk/issue/action logs, and driving problem resolution in partnership with customers and Celonis executives
A history of working with an ecosystem of partners and managed co-delivery
Strong communication skills and a background in consulting with a proven ability to manage stakeholders and project timelines
Project management certifications (PMP, Prince2, or Safe/Agile)
Experience in positioning Services, writing proposals and “statement of works” within a complete ecosystem (customers and partners)
Ability to effectively set and manage customer expectations
Client-facing Project Management experience in enterprise software implementations, managing multiple projects concurrently
Strong analytical skills, especially in applying technology solutions to core business problems