Senior Project Manager (m/f/d)
Advantest Böblingen
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Senior Project Manager (m/f/d)
Advantest • Böblingen
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Böblingen
Your duties
As a Senior BPR & DX Project Manager, you operate at a high professional level with end-to-end accountability for major, business‑critical BPR/DX projects.
You are responsible not only for delivery, but also for setting goals and targets at department or management-team level, ensuring that transformation initiatives deliver sustainable business value.
This role works very closely with business owners to understand their pain point, envisioning user journey and business value of required solution. Acts as a key advisor to senior management, challenging business owners on the scale and execution of transformation to increase business value, particularly in high risk situations where errors in judgement would significantly impact the business.
Responsibilities include:
Leadership on project
- Own and govern large-scale, complex and strategic BPR/DX projects with enterprise-wide impact.
- Set clear goals, targets, KPIs, and success criteria for assigned program/project for a department or management domain.
- Ensure alignment of project objectives with value realization, and long-term operating model evolution.
- Take ultimate responsibility for scope, budget, timeline, risk, and value delivery on project
Executive Decision Support
- Provide professional and technical guidance at an expert level, especially in high-risk, high-impact decision contexts.
- Proactively identify trade-offs, dependencies, and systemic risks across process, data, governance, tools, and organization.
Delivery
- Lead end-to-end project phases including: Business case definition (value, benefits, ROI) with Business Process Champion
- Target Operating Model design (process, data, governance, tools/solutions, organization)
- Tool/solution evaluation and implementation
- Change management, communication, and adoption
- Stabilization, benefits realization, and formal sign-off
- Ensure strong collaboration with Business Process Owners, Process Champions, and IT.
- Drive fact-based, timely decision-making by enabling stakeholders to understand end-to-end business value.
INTEGRITY
- Contribute to the continuous development of customer centric BPR/DX methodologies, governance, and best practices.
- Promote diversity, inclusion, and high-performance collaboration across global, cross-business teams.
Your profile
Required
- Extensive experience leading major BPR, DX, or enterprise transformation projects
- Deep expertise in project and program management methodologies (PMBOK, hybrid, agile-at-scale).
- Strong capability in business value definition, operating model design, and change execution.
- Ability to provide expert-level judgment in complex, ambiguous, and high-risk situations.
- Excellent global communication skills in English; Japanese is a plus.
Professional Profile
- Recognized expert in BPR/DX and transformation program leadership, internally and externally.
- Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence without direct authority.
- Strategic mindset combined with execution discipline.
- High level of integrity, accountability, and business acumen.
Additional Skills Preferred (but not required):
- Experience in Change Management, Agile / Scrum, Product Ownership
- Background in Business Architecture
- Lean Six Sigma or similar business/process analysis certification
What we offer
With us, you can stay fit and healthy.
We want you to feel your best. That’s why we offer a wide range of sports and health programs at all our locations, giving you the opportunity to take care of yourself.
With us, you stay flexible.
Life is unpredictable and often full of surprises. To help you respond quickly to unexpected events or plan ahead for different phases of your life, we offer you a range of options to flexibly adapt your working hours to your current situation.
With us, you’re in the best hands.
No one knows what tomorrow will bring. But we can do a lot to make sure you’re well prepared for whatever life throws your way. With a company pension plan, (paid) leaves of absence, and a wide range of insurance options, you can look to the future with confidence.
With us, your development moves forward.
Learning is a lifelong process. Whether you are a school or university student, a graduate, or an experienced professional - you are always growing. That’s why we offer you a variety of opportunities to broaden your horizons and advance your career at Advantest.
With us, your performance is worth it.
At Advantest, you can be sure of an attractive salary that is reviewed on a yearly basis. In addition, we offer you the chance to share in the company’s success, plus a wide range of meaningful financial benefits.
Our pride and joy
Since 2017, we have regularly taken part in a comparison of the best employers in Germany. In 2021, our employees again participated in the anonymous and independent survey. The results confirm: We are a Great Place to Work! We first and foremost owe that great result to the people here at Advantest. Each and every day, they prove their dedication, take ownership, and bring passion to their work. And that makes us very proud.
Reports
Puneetha
Werkstudentin - Business Intelligence
When I compare Advantest to previous employers, there is a very decisive advantage here: the employees count. We are treated like human beings, not numbers. Our wishes, goals, concerns and needs are taken into account. And considerable effort goes into our well-being. Personally, I could already tell during my application process how important it was to Advantest to bring me on board.
Contacts
Ann-Kathrin Rupp
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