We are currently looking for a skilled & passionate Head of Technical Project Management (m/f/d) to lead our Strategy Projects Tech & Core Enabling Team at ABOUT YOU!

Our Strategy Projects Tech Team is responsible for steering our most important strategic initiatives across our full system landscape. Doing so they ensure efficient and smooth cross-system solutions to enable our commerce business (all our About You shops in the different countries in which we operate).

What you will do

• You will steer the key strategic initiatives across our system landscape in close collaboration with the application teams
• You will manage a team of 3 project managers, with plans to expand the team as project demands grow, and collaborate closely with various business stakeholders to drive projects from the business side
• You will report directly to our VP level and prepare MD decisions
• Challenge business requirements to minimize technical complexity while maintaining business value
• Plan the right time and capacity for our projects and resolve blockers and dependencies
• Lots of space for your own ideas and creations, flat hierarchies, and very short decision-making process

Who you are

• Completed studies in business informatics or a comparable course of study
• Minimum 3-5 years of practical experience in tech project management
• Deep understanding of business and tech processes
• Experience in project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, and quality, along with risk and critical path management
• practical experience of working directly with engineering teams
• You have an analytical, data-driven, and efficiency-focused approach
• You like to work hands-on with high attention to details and have a get-things-done mentality
• Very good written and spoken English skills

Nice to have

• first leadership experience
• experienced with MySQL 
• experienced in designing process flows

Additional Information

**Working model:

Due to the upcoming tasks and responsibilities for this position, it is required to work onsite at our headquarters in Hamburg on a weekly basis. Therefore we’ve implemented a hybrid working model that allows us to work remotely on Mondays and Fridays and to work onsite from Tuesday to Thursday.

YOU ARE THE CORE OF ABOUT YOU. 

We take responsibility for creating an inclusive and exceptional environment where all genders, nationalities and ethnicities feel welcomed and accepted exactly as they are. We believe that a diverse workforce essentially contributes to the ABOUT YOU culture. In order to maintain talent and diversity, we emphasize the care for physical health, mental health and overall well-being. Our values and work ethics essentially contribute to our brand mission: empower acceptance and shape an inclusive, fair and circular fashion culture.

We are looking forward to receiving your application – preferably via our online application portal! Thus we can ensure a faster process and for you it is very easy to upload your application documents. :-)