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At Zeiss Digital Partners (ZDP), we have a clear goal: Enabling and accelerating the digital transformation of ZEISS @speed and @scale. We develop digital solutions jointly with the ZEISS business units and accelerating innovation that delivers a future value for our customers and our company. Digital Business Innovation within ZDP is a cross-functional team building digital solutions and business models as well as driving strategic digital programs. We apply customer-centric methodologies like Design Thinking and Voice of the Customer and combine those with our business and strategy acumen.

Join us as a Project Manager to shape and contribute towards the success of the digital transformation at ZEISS.

Your role

• Manage the topic of change management across different cross-ZEISS digital transformation programs

• Shape, structure and further develop the change management strategy and approach within our program organization  

• Consult and coach project teams with change management demand and support/enable project leads to integrate actionable change deliverables into their project plans

• Conduct impact analyses, assess change readiness, and identify key change management activities for stakeholders and target groups

• Develop our change management toolbox for our digital transformational projects and identify further change management measures to support the adoption of the required changes

• Collaborate with cross-functional project teams – e.g., from our Business, Design, Data Analytics and Tech colleagues at ZEISS Digital Partners

Your profile

• Excellent University degree, preferably in business, informatics or psychology

• 3-4 years of experience, preferably in change consulting with focus on digital transformation or with change management on digital transformation projects in a B2B industry (i.e. implementation of Target Operating Models)

• Track record of successfully leading projects using change methodology in digital transformation projects

• Strong drive to demonstrate the impact of change management

• Sound understanding of change management mechanics and tools for digital transformation, preferably in IT or engineering environments

• Very strong communication skills and the empathy to productively collaborate with people from diverse backgrounds

• Business fluent German and English language skills

The contract for this role is limited until 30.11.2025