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In this role, you develop IT roadmaps, manage complex digital projects, and coordinate interfaces and external service providers from planning to implementation. You ensure clear communication channels and effective risk management.
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Your role in the team
- As an IT Project Manager, you work alongside the business lead to ensure that strategic initiatives are translated into realistic plans and tangible results.
- You bring the IT perspective in early, connect the right people, and drive implementation across teams, systems, and external partners.
- You lead complex IT projects and programs for digital investor and advisor solutions—from setup and planning through to go-live and handover.
- Together with the business project lead, you translate business objectives into a realistic IT roadmap with clear initiatives, milestones, responsibilities, and decision requirements.
- You bring together architecture, development, operations, data protection, information security, and other stakeholders.
- You make system impacts, interfaces, data flows, and dependencies visible and manageable at an early stage.
- You are responsible for IT project governance, including budgeting, forecasting, resource management, risk management, and project controlling.
- You present progress, deviations, and necessary decisions clearly to management and committees.
- You manage internal teams and external service providers from planning and commissioning through delivery and acceptance.
- Depending on the project, you will also support the implementation of digital and AI-powered applications.
Our expectations of you
Education
- A completed degree in computer science, business informatics, or business administration/economics with an additional IT-related qualification—or an equivalent qualification.
Qualifications
- You communicate confidently in German (at least B2–C1).
- A good understanding of IT systems, interfaces, data, and operations.
- You can assess technical dependencies together with experts and translate business objectives into realistic implementation steps.
- Proficiency in Microsoft 365 and knowledge of Jira and Confluence are an advantage.
- A way of working characterized by collaboration, appreciation, enthusiasm, and team spirit.
Experience
- Several years of experience independently leading complex IT projects or programs—ideally including budget, resource, risk, and dependency management.
- Experience managing external service providers; knowledge of selection, commissioning, and acceptance is a plus.
- Experience in implementing or managing AI-based applications is desirable.
What we offer
- Remote work is a natural part of how we work, as is spending most of your time on-site in our modern offices in Frankfurt am Main.
- We also welcome a wide range of educational backgrounds and work experience.
- We’re open to candidates whose CV may not seem to match all the requirements in our job posting at first glance.
- We provide the right conditions for you to fully realize your individual potential.
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About your employer
Union Investment ist der Experte für Fondsvermögensverwaltung in der Genossenschaftlichen FinanzGruppe und einer der größten deutschen Anbieter von Investmentfonds. Unser Anspruch ist, privaten wie institutionellen Anlegern die bestmöglichen Lösungen zu bieten.
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- Onsite, Hybrid
- Banking, Finance, Insurance
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