Project Manager German Speaking

Previse Systems, established in 2019, set out to bring fresh thinking and modern technology to the world of energy trading and risk management (ETRM).

What started as a bold vision by a group of industry experts has grown into a success story — trusted by leading energy companies and recognised for innovation, reliability, and impact.

Our cloud-based SaaS ETRM software combines modern architecture, scalability, and flexibility to help our customers manage their trading operations more efficiently and intelligently.We continue to challenge the status quo, think differently, and have fun doing it.

Tasks

About the Role

In this role, you will be working with Previse, Partners, and Client resources to ensure the successful delivery of our software to various clients simultaneously across varying sizes of projects from small agile implementations up to and including large multiyear projects and programmes of work.

You will lead and be responsible for Previse project deliverables, working alongside client Project Managers and other various 3rd party suppliers and System Integrators, to ensure successful, on budget, on time, and to a high-quality standard, deliverables for our clients. You will also be expected to work with our internal development teams and Product Managers to ensure core software developments required for successful project deliveries are also achieved on time to meet the client's requirements. This is an exciting and challenging role, working with highly motivated clients and 3rd parties, and you will be expected to build up know-how not only in the software and the Previse offerings, but also in the implementation life cycle, as well as developing your knowledge in the European Power, Gas, LNG, and Emissions trading & operational landscapes.

The successful candidate will have 3 to 10 years of IT implementation experience, with at least 4 years of IT Project Management experience, and an interest in the Energy Trading Industry. Any software development experience is a plus, but not mandatory.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading Previse Implementation projects successfully for our clients.
• Sub-Contractor management to ensure successful delivery from our 3rd party suppliers to fulfill Previse client needs.
• Contract and Commercial negotiations with clients.
• Stakeholder engagement and management across both internal and external resources.
• Leading and developing Previse Professional Services consultants.
• Work with internal teams and Subject Matter Experts to analyse complex requirements and solution definition.

Requirements

About You

You have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in business, Finance, Economics, Information Technology or a closely related area.

You will have at least 3 to 10 years of hands-on IT implementations with at least 4 years of IT Project Management experience across both T&M and Fixed Price implementations. You will also have demonstrable experience of sub-contractor management and experience of leading remote teams. You are a team player who works well under pressure and who likes to challenge yourself working with highly experienced and talented individuals. You are communicative and able to establish and maintain effective relationships with internal and external customers. You feel comfortable with multiple responsibilities and being exposed to challenging problems and their solution definition.

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Benefits

Work Environment

We offer a friendly, driven, multi-cultural and multi-lingual environment in a classical professional office. We have a very open culture and provide a very high degree of freedom, provided the individual is delivering the expected results.

Position Type

The right candidate will have the right personality to fit into our organisation and the professional culture we aim to build. We will ensure that you get the right support from the other team members to be successful in your role.

This position typically operates during regular business hours during the week, but our intent is to provide a high degree of freedom for the right candidate. Occasional after-hours work for special projects will be required.

Travel

We have limited travel requirements at this stage, but since our customers and partners are located all over Europe, some travel will be necessary.

We practice an open culture and aim to structure the roles and positions so that they fit with our employees’ profiles and preferences.

We favour competence and passion over formal titles and egos.

We offer a highly performant SaaS solution for European electricity, natural gas and certificates trading – combining modern software architecture with the latest available tools and technology.

As a conceptual innovation, we build on the notion of “community”, with an infrastructure for energy companies to leverage synergies through collaboration in the IT domain. We create software without any legacy burden. Our data structure follows accepted market standards, which drives easy and fast data migrations, and is also a core factor of strong system performance.

We develop software that is both optimised for today’s energy trading, and ready for the changes anticipated in the markets in the coming years.