Job
- Level
- Experienced
- Job Field
- Product
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Munich
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will collaborate with leaders to advance the R&D strategy, manage cross-functional programs, oversee KPIs, and prepare management decisions in a structured manner to ensure measurable progress and outcomes.
Your role in the team
- You work closely with the VP of R&D Platform & Application Software and the Senior Leadership Teams, further develop the R&D strategy, and ensure that initiatives are clearly prioritized and linked to measurable business outcomes.
- You manage cross-functional programs and strategic initiatives (e.g., projects such as M&A and fundraising) with high visibility, bring stakeholders together, and ensure progress, alignment, and clear priorities across teams.
- You recognize operational risks early, assess them, and derive proactive measures for risk mitigation and the utilization of potentials.
- You prepare management decisions in a structured manner, monitor their implementation, and ensure that goals and results are measurable.
- You define KPIs and control metrics, build dashboards, and create executive reports as well as ROI analyses for management, from which you derive clear actionable recommendations.
- You represent the interests of the team during alignments between R&D, product management, finance & controlling, HR, and other stakeholders, ensuring that relevant information is transparently available.
- You create concise briefings, presentations, and regular updates for various management and organizational levels, thereby supporting a culture of transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- You demonstrate strong project and program management skills and are capable of managing initiatives in parallel, setting priorities, and reliably bringing topics to completion.
Qualifications
- You possess strong analytical and conceptual skills, work data-driven, and are able to clearly structure and communicate complex issues in a manner that is appropriate for the audience — including at the executive level.
- You maintain an overview even in dynamic, rapidly growing organizations with high complexity, identify problems early, develop pragmatic solutions, and implement them consistently.
- You communicate confidently and convincingly in German and English and work seamlessly with stakeholders at various levels.
Experience
- You have qualified professional experience in roles such as Chief of Staff (m/f/d), R&D Operations, Product Operations, or comparable strategic-operational functions in a technology-driven environment.
- You bring a strong understanding of project and program management, governance and business processes, as well as extensive experience in modern software development within agile organizations.
- You have experience with KPIs, data analysis, dashboards, as well as management reporting, and ideally possess knowledge in budget planning and ROI assessments in the R&D environment.
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What we offer
- Company pension scheme.
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Benefits
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ROHDE & SCHWARZ GmbH & Co. KG
Rohde & Schwarz entwickelt, produziert und vermarktet innovative Produkte der Messtechnik, Broadcast- und Medientechnik, Cybersicherheit, Sichere Kommunikation sowie Monitoring und Network Testing. Vor 85 Jahren gegründet, unterhält das Unternehmen ein Vertriebs- und Servicenetz in mehr als 70 Ländern.
Description
- Company Size
- 250+ Employees
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Industry, Production
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Product Operations Manager R&D Platform & Application Software
- Location
- Munich
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
