🇩🇪 🇬🇧 Agile Project Manager im Bereich Digitalisation & Operational Excellence
The Company
Hertz & Flavors GmbH, located in Reinbek near Hamburg, is a family owned business that has been established in 1954 in Hamburg, Germany. Their focus on good tobacco taste is their passion and motivation. Hertz & Flavors GmbH takes a long term view in all its activities to ensure the sustainability of their business. They believe in long-lasting partnerships, superior quality and first-class customer service. Their core values that have shaped the company during the last decades are the basis for their future, in which they seek to expand their position as a leading supplier of the tobacco industry. Attracting the best people, staying ahead of trends and leading innovation in their sector are prerequisites to achieve this goal and to satisfy their customers’ desires and needs in the future. Based on their framework of excellence in all our business sectors Hertz & Flavors GmbH foster continual improvement to serve their customers needs. Additionally, Hertz & Flavors feels responsible for the sparing use of resources on our planet and for preserving an intact environment – for present and future generations.
Mission
Developing flavors in the tobacco industry in the most sustainable and ethical way possible.
Employees say...
"That you can work independently from day one, but you are never left alone. Due to the constant further development of the company, you have many new and exciting tasks in which you can contribute and implement your own ideas. The collegial cohesion is really great. "
3,9/5 Overall assessment
Brief profile of the position
We are looking for an experienced Agile Project Manager to join our team. This is a great opportunity for an analytical person with great management skills joining a great and highly motivated team in a beautiful area close to Hamburg.
Core Tasks
- Assumption of the role as Scrum Master / Agile Coach in the group and cross-organizational support of the agile project teams as a lateral manager
- Shared responsibility for planning and executing sprints
- Promotion and continuous development of all team members in their personal and agile way of working
- Management of cross-interface large-scale projects according to lean principles; Examples: Digitization of business processes, software implementation, process optimization, business development, etc.
- Conducting situation analyses, market research and solution evaluations to support decision-making for IT, PMO and management
- Coordination of internal stakeholders and external partners, from requirements gathering to go-live
- Interface between technical implementation and key users in the department
- Creation of user training and training of new processes in the departments
- Strengthening of the agile mindset as a "servant leader" through coaching & mentoring, and moderation and active support of the transformation process to increase self-organization, ownership & accountability
- Ownership of agile methods within our organization and optimization of team productivity through their continuous development
- Support of project controlling with prioritization taking into account corporate strategy, goals and KPIs as well as cost-benefit aspects
- Taking on the role of OKR champion and supporting the international implementation of the OKR framework
- Definition, documentation and implementation of new business processes in cooperation with the QMS & PMO team
Key Requirements
- Successfully completed studies with an information technology, technical or business background (e.g. industrial engineering, business informatics)
- Excellent academic performance and strong analytical skills and basic computer science skillsProfessional experience (from project management or management consulting) as well as practical knowledge of project management in environments such as Scrum or Kanban Certifications as Scrum Master and/or Agile Coach (at least 1 year old) an advantageSoftware knowledge in JIRA, Confluence, MS-Teams, etc. is an advantage
- Agile mindset paired with hands-on mentality and entrepreneurial thinking
- Fast acquisition of complex facts and independent and structured way of workingHigh level of organizational skills, initiative, teamwork and communication skills
- Excellent German and English communication skills
Benefits
- A motivated team and exciting tasks with a direct impact
- Flexible working time model and hybrid work
- Work in a friendly and collegial atmosphereAn attractive field of work in an internationally active, growing, medium-sized family company with flat hierarchies
- Smooth onboarding
- A performance-based salary and opportunities for further development
Salary
competitive salary
Application Details
Starting Date: asap
Working Capacity: Full-time
Application Documents: CV
Hiring Process
- 1st Call with HR (Bianca, Mariesa) + Teamleiter (45 minutes, Online)
- 2nd Call Teamleiter + HR + CEO (90 minutes, F2F)
Working Mode
Dresscode: Business, Casual
Working mode: near Hamburg
