Project Manager

The Company

Star is a global consultancy that connects strategic endgames, strategy, design and engineering services to help companies accelerate product innovation and achieve their business goals. With over a decade of constant compound annual growth, we are rapidly expanding our consulting services, geographic footprint, and industry expertise.

Star works for businesses in a variety of industries, including Automotive & Mobility, Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Financial Services globally. Our clients include BMW Group, SAIC, Lufthansa, Denso, NIO, Panasonic, AppyWay, Zeisås, Walmart and Dolby, Daimler Truck, Hyundai Motor Europe, amongst many others.

We support our clients in every step of their digital journey. Through co-creation, we guide them from ideation and concept crafting to full-stack development. We always remain focused on supporting our clients, whether enterprise customers, investors or start-ups, to win the hearts and minds of their (end) customers.

At Star, we blend strategy, insights, design and engineering into a seamless workflow devised to support our clients - no matter how long or complex their journey. We anchor everything we do in clear and compelling endgames, which in turn enable our multidisciplinary teams to create superior solutions and support impressive commercial returns for our clients.

Star is truly global in its footprint and its outlook. That is why we are the first major consulting company with no single headquarters. Instead, clients have many routes to Star, spanning Silicon Valley, Tokyo, Beijing, London, Frankfurt, Munich, Copenhagen, Kyiv, Wroclaw, and other vibrant design, technology and creative nuclei of the world. Our spirited and growing 700+ strong Star Crew takes great pride in working side by side with their trailblazing counterparts at some of the largest enterprise clients and global brands, with highly profitable mid-market players, as well as the world's most disruptive "unicorn" startups.

Our passion is to make every great person, every great idea and every great company shine. That's why we're called Star.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for an empathetic and result-oriented Project Manager to join our Project Delivery team. This is a highly visible role that spans multiple global touch-points, including Client Relationship, Process Excellence, and Project Management.

The project is focused on the design and delivery of the platform solution for one of the world’s leading creative advertising brands. The concept of the platform can be described as a cross-organizational “operating system,” a centralized hub for distributed innovation. The platform will become an entry point for different target audiences keen on using their own and third-party digital products while contributing to the development of new applications.

Qualifications

Must have :

• 3+ years of process management experience as a PMO, Project Manager, Change Manager, etc.;
• Servant Leadership and team motivation experience;
• Critical thinking and decision-making abilities, such as the ability to proactive solutionizing in order to tackle existing process challenges, incl. problem research, context elicitation, stakeholder engagement, etc.;
• Hands-on experience in stakeholder management and client relationship building in complex environments;
• Consulting skills, incl. problem research, context elicitation, stakeholder engagement, etc.;
• Hands-on experience in documenting processes and Agile development methodologies;
• An ability to guide others through complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty;
• Exemplary execution discipline/culture;
• Consulting skills, such as the ability to elaborate ideas and explain technical concepts in a simple way, and convey technical visions to business people;
• Advanced English;
• International expertise and perspective.
  
  

Nice to have:

• Technical experience or background.
• Agile Facilitator role in a complex process environment
  
  

Responsibilities:

• PMO coordination and project management of scrum teams within a large account;
• Manage customer expectations, hold internal contributors accountable for their commitments & deliverables, and proactively follow up with process participants;
• Ensure the quality of the process and deliverables;
• Remove bottlenecks, escalate and resolve issues;
• People management.
  
  

What You’ll Get

We offer a rewarding compensation and benefits package, an intellectually and creatively stimulating environment, professional flexibility, and unique international travel opportunities.

Star is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that equity, diversity, and inclusion are key to our ability to provide our clients and crew members with unique business and career outcomes. Your race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, and disability have no effect on our hiring decisions. If you have a special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.