IT Project Manager (all genders)

About the job

With us, AI expertise, engineering excellence, and profound industry understanding come together – driven by people who want to make a difference together. This creates future-proof solutions that truly make a difference in our customers' daily lives. This is achieved by people who take responsibility, recognise opportunities, and turn technological possibilities into tangible results. To this end, we create an environment characterised by mutual support: space for professional development, open communities where knowledge is gladly shared, peer groups, and training offers tailored to you. Trust, appreciation, and jointly celebrated successes shape our collaboration and make development something that simply belongs with us.

WHAT YOU CAN ACHIEVE

• Manage consulting and software development projects: You take on the negotiation, planning, execution, and control of IT consulting and software development projects. It is not about managing the project business and the employees in the project, but actively and purposefully developing and efficiently controlling it.
• Take responsibility: Responsibility for effort calculation and adherence to schedule and budget plans is part of your duties.
• Lead project teams: Lead large project teams and ensure optimal team utilisation.
• Quality and test management: You ensure compliance with quality standards by applying efficient quality and test management.
• Be the interface: You take care of interface management with customers, which means building and maintaining partnership-based customer relationships with the aim of high customer satisfaction and long-term customer loyalty.
• Customer development, sales, and presales: Strategic customer development and the technical and professional support of sales activities as well as presales activities are also part of your responsibilities.

HOW TO SUCCEED

• Qualification: You have a degree in economics with a minor in computer science, (business) informatics, or a comparable qualification.
• IT project management and leadership experience: You have already gained diverse experience in (multi-)project management and know the business of an IT service company. Additionally, you have at least 5 years of experience leading project teams with several employees and the necessary skills to motivate employees in all phases of a project.
• Certifications: Ideally, you hold recognised certifications in classical and agile project management, in the areas of HERMES, SAFe, Scrum, and/or IPMA.
• Early warning system experience: You have experience with early warning systems in large software projects and project controlling.
• Quality and test management experience: In project-critical situations, you demonstrate a solution-oriented, structured approach.
• Extensive experience in quality and test management of software development projects. Presales experience: You show confidence in dealing with decision-makers and extensive experience in presales activities.
• Desirable industry knowledge: Experience in public transport (e.g., with transport companies, consultancies, suppliers, or authorities).
• AI competence: You confidently use AI tools in your field, critically evaluate the results, and support customers and adessi in utilising AI potentials.
• Language skills: Very good German and good English skills. French is an advantage.
• Flexibility: You are willing to travel for projects.

OPPORTUNITY PROVIDER - WHAT MAKES ADESSO SPECIAL

Our promise: You will feel comfortable with us! Collegial, communal, and on equal footing – we live exchange, team spirit, and respectful interaction. Diversity and different perspectives are valued just as much as you as a person. That and much more stands for our very special sense of community. For which there is even a word: adessi.

• Learn and grow with us: With over 400 training offers and our digital learning platform, we support your continuous development.
• Experience true team spirit: Joint events (e.g., sports weekend and the annual eduCamp training trip), welcome days, company runs strengthen our cohesion and make you part of the team from the start.
• Engagement that is rewarded: Your commitment pays off – with bonuses for referrals, presentations, supervision of theses, as well as attractive discounts via our corporate benefits portal.

Our culture and collaboration are characterised by mutual appreciation, recognition, and support. This connects us – even in the home office. Part-time work is possible by arrangement (80-100%). We have been repeatedly recognised as one of the best employers in Switzerland! Our extensive training offer and a transparent career level model for all ensure that your development with us does not stand still. Because growing together and being an opportunity provider is programmed in our DNA.