Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- Project
- Employment Type
- Part Time/Full Time
- Contract Type
- Freelancer
- Location
- Trier
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you oversee 20-40 parallel projects, lead a team of 7-10 members, optimize workflows in ClickUp, and ensure deliverables' quality through regular updates and status meetings.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- We focus on one thing—and do it right: digital marketing exclusively for the automotive industry in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. For over 10 years. With clear structures, proven processes, and measurable results—for more than 300 dealerships and as a partner of BMW AG.
- As the first agency in Germany, we are simultaneously a Google Partner and a Google Vehicle Feed Service Provider – a certification held by only around 60 companies worldwide. In 2025, we were awarded the German Agency Award in four categories.
- Over 500,000 generated leads and more than €10 million in managed advertising budget demonstrate the effectiveness of our Pole-Position Performance Method®. Our team works in a hybrid setup from our locations in Trier and Frankfurt—with strict quality standards, short decision-making processes, and the commitment to set industry benchmarks in everything we do.
- You steer. You decide. You bear the responsibility.
- While the management focuses on strategy, sales, and marketing, you keep everything together internally: projects, team, quality, deadlines. With genuine leadership responsibility – not just coordinating, but also having technical authority.
- Maintain, organize, and keep ClickUp up to date - daily.
- Oversee, prioritize, and assign 20-40 parallel projects and tasks to the team.
- Monitor deadlines, identify bottlenecks early, and resolve them proactively.
- Optimize project workflows and automations in ClickUp.
- Lead 7-10 team members professionally: Account Manager, Graphic Designer, Online Marketing, Junior Project Manager, Freelancer.
- Lead weekly team meetings: status, prioritization, resolving blockers.
- Manage team workload and address capacity bottlenecks proactively.
- Manage spontaneous reprioritization 1-2 times a week when there's an urgent issue - make quick decisions.
- Onboard new team members operationally (structure, working methods, processes).
- Create briefings for campaigns, landing pages, and advertising materials, and distribute them to the team.
- Coordinate customer onboarding: Ensure all steps from contract initiation to ongoing support.
- Conduct client agreements via email, phone, or video call until clarity of the order is achieved.
- Check deliverables before delivery: Is the agency quality maintained? (No micro-design decisions - but the overall standard must be correct).
- Status updates to management: what's progressing, what's stalled, where support is needed.
- Escalate problems early – not when there's a fire, but when it starts to smoke.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- A specific qualification - your track record counts.
Qualifications
- Basic understanding of online marketing - you don't need to run campaigns yourself, but you should understand what your team is doing.
- German at native level (C2) - you communicate with the team, with clients, and with management.
- ClickUp Power-User (Automations, Custom Fields, Dashboards).
- Overview of complexity: 20-40 parallel tasks, 7-10 people, different projects - and you still always know where things stand.
- Assertiveness: You tell the team "this is now Priority 1, everything else waits" - and you are respected. Technical authority is not a title, but an attitude.
- Proactive approach: You work independently. Solve problems yourself before anyone else notices. Escalate only if necessary.
- Quality consciousness: Deliverables are only released when the quality is right. Not before. No "good enough".
- Hands-on mentality: You don't just manage — when it gets tight, you roll up your sleeves and pitch in.
- Reliability: Towards the team, clients, and management. What you promise, you deliver.
- Online marketing expertise - you don't have to be able to do it yourself, just to categorize it.
Experience
- Experience with project management tools - ClickUp ideal, Asana/Monday/Jira also acceptable.
- Leadership experience - you have already managed a team, not just coordinated.
- Agency experience - you are familiar with multi-client environments, parallel projects, and agency pace.
- QA / Quality Management experience (inspection processes, checklists, standards).
- Experience in the automotive or car dealership environment (we train internally - but an advantage doesn't hurt).
- Automotive experience - industry knowledge is trained internally.
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What we offer
- Real leadership responsibility - technically authorized to direct 7-10 team members. Not a "coordinating role" on paper that cannot make decisions in reality.
- Maximum trust from management - independent work without micro-management. You escalate when necessary, not for every task.
- Clear role delineation - 100% Operations and Fulfillment. No HR, Office, or Sales tasks on the side.
- Proven structures - ClickUp as a single source of truth, established processes, checklists, templates. You take over a functioning system and continue to develop it - no rebuild from scratch.
- Direct collaboration with the management board - at eye level. Short decision paths, clear communication, genuine sparring.
- Hybrid work model - 3 days in the office in Trier, 2 days remote. Full-time or part-time possible.
- Award-winning team - German Agency Award 2025 in 4 categories. Over 10 years in the market. 300+ clients. Direct partner of BMW AG.
- Professional equipment - Apple MacBook, two monitors, iPhone, high-quality headset, and height-adjustable desk. Professional tools for professional work.
- +25 vacation days - 25 days + company holidays from December 24th to January 2nd are gifted to you on top. No vacation day will be affected.
- Accurate time tracking - core hours from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., digital time recording via RFID, and 1:1 overtime compensation. Every minute counts - including yours.
- Health & Fitness - Personal Training at LUXFIT Private Gym (up to €600/year subsidy) + Access to over 300 health services as an excellent top employer.
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Agentur Kühnen
The Kühnen Agency, based in Trier, is a full-service agency that has focused on digital marketing for the automotive industry for over a decade. It serves more than 300 car dealerships in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, offering services such as Google Ads, SEO, and social media management. As the first German agency, it has achieved Google Partner status and is TÜV certified in sales psychology.
Description
- Company Type
- Digital Agency
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Advertising, Marketing, PR
Senior Project Manager, Team Lead Fulfillment
- Location
- Trier
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
