Scientific Project Manager (m/f/d)

As a Project Manager for our strategic and commercial research projects you will be working closely with both developers and researchers across engineering, chemistry or pharma affairs, and with our commercial team, customers and external partners. Your goal will be to ensure that some of our most important projects deliver as planned while maintaining a smooth process for internal and external stakeholders.

We are looking for an experienced Project Manager with a scientific or engineering background and customer-facing experience who can translate between strategic objectives and day-to-day deliverables, managing a variety of complex projects in a fast moving environment.

Your responsibilities will include the following:

• Lead cross-functional project teams to deliver research, development and commercial projects, working internally with all of our research and engineering teams as well as externally with partners in biomedical research, patient care and related fields

• Plan, coordinate, monitor and manage assigned projects to safeguard their quality and progress within time and budget from initiation through delivery

• Take over project member / work package owner role, when required e.g. create commercial deliverables such as business plans

• Support the evaluation of new projects and collaborations as well as the definition of project scope and goals in alignment with key stakeholders to bring the benefits of our technology to researchers and patients alike

• Forward-looking identification and assessment of project risks and definition of mitigation strategies in alignment with our company priorities and strategy

• Drive collaboration, effective communication and transparency within the project teams as well as across the company and with external collaborators, evaluators and funding agencies

• Act as single point of contact for external partners and foster sustainable relationships

• Academic degree (e.g. MSc, MD, PhD) in biomedical sciences, chemistry, physics, engineering or comparable

• > 3 years experience in project management, ideally in health research/ care

• Ability to drive multiple competing priorities, escalate risks and facilitate decision making

• Strong written and oral communication skills, ability to influence and manage internal and external stakeholders and experience in reporting on both complex technical and commercial topics

• Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills

• Fluent English and German skills

• Comfortable with a range of project management methodologies (classical / sequential/ waterfall, agile etc.)

• Solid understanding of collaborative and funded (publicly / privately) research projects is a plus

• Project Management certifications are a plus

• Competitive compensation, based on base salary and company shares
• Flexible working hours and a hybrid work model (no relocation to Ulm needed)
• Annual health budget (Allianz bKV)
• Unique industry opportunity to perform cutting-edge research and publish high-impact publications
• Key role in a highly advanced and fast-growing startup company
• Ample opportunity for personal initiatives, openness to new ideas and room for considerable personal impact
• Impactful product promoting better understanding and treatment of disease
• International and dynamic team, from over 15 different nationalities
• Enjoyable work atmosphere with an open-door and open communication mentality
• Permanent employment contract, providing stability and long-term career growth opportunities
• 30 vacation days