Delivery and Release Manager

JENOPTIK AG

Job

In this role, you will define delivery plans, manage governance meetings, handle scope changes, coordinate releases, and monitor commercial risks to ensure successful project execution.

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Your role in the team

  • Responsibility for the delivery schedule: defining and maintaining milestones, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and go-live dates, as well as ensuring a consistent "Single Source of Truth" internally and with the customer.
  • Translation of commercial specifications from contracts, SOWs, and SLAs into delivery commitments and early identification as well as escalation of unreasonably achievable commitments.
  • Management of the governance rhythm through conducting kickoffs, steering meetings, status reporting, as well as leading risk and issue logs and change control processes.
  • Scope Change Management: assessment of the impact of changes, securing prioritization by product management, effort estimation by the engineering department, obtaining customer approval, and comprehensive documentation.
  • Coordination of release readiness: aligning with platform teams regarding communication, cutover planning, training, and hypercare, while being responsible for the organizational aspects but not the technical execution of the release.
  • Management of the support transition: ensuring customer sign-off, maintaining the known issues list, defining the support model, and adhering to hypercare exit criteria.
  • Feedback Management: Collection of customer feedback and adoption signals post-delivery, as well as prioritized and evidence-based forwarding to product management.
  • Early escalation: Proactive and early reporting of schedule risks to enable countermeasures.
  • Management of commercial risks: Monitoring and controlling contractual impacts such as penalties, credits, and revenue recognition triggers depending on milestones.

Our expectations of you

Education

  • Completed university degree (Master/Diploma or Bachelor's) in (Business) Informatics, Business Administration, or a similar field.

Qualifications

  • Methodological competence in SCRUM, Kanban, project management, ITIL, and DevOps.
  • Strong social skills: transparent communication, stakeholder management, moderation, conflict resolution, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Fluent language skills in German and English.
  • International mobility (up to 5% scope).

Experience

  • 3 to 5 years of professional experience as a Delivery Manager or IT Project Manager.

What we offer

  • In the Strategic Business Unit (SBU) Smart Mobility Solutions, Jenoptik offers photonics-based, innovative, and sustainable technologies for traffic safety and public security, including related services.
  • As a provider of complete solutions, we support our clients with the provision of hardware, software, and a broad range of services, including integration, installation, maintenance, financing options, and full-service operation of our solutions.
  • Our strong global presence with a broad installed base is supported by a long-standing partner network.
  • With over 90 years of experience and 40 years of expertise in AKLS (Automatic License Plate Recognition Systems), Jenoptik is one of the world's leading providers of systems and services for traffic safety and civil security, making our roads and communities safer worldwide and better protecting our environment.

Benefits

Topics you will work on

Job locations

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  • Location Monheim
    86653 Bayern, Germany

About your employer

As a global technology company, we primarily focus on optical technologies and provide our products and services to the photonics market. Our key target markets include the semiconductor industry, medical technology, automotive and machinery engineering, robotics, as well as traffic safety and security. We are also active in the aerospace, defense, and security sectors.

Company size
250+ Employees
Company type
Established Company
Work model
Hybrid, Onsite
Industry
Industry, Production
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Delivery and Release Manager

JENOPTIK AG