Senior IT Project Manager - Public Healthcare Digital Transformation

Role Overview

We seek a Senior IT Project Manager to lead a significant digital transformation initiative in Germany's public healthcare sector, focusing on acute and emergency care services. The programme encompasses the digitalisation of cross-sector care, telemedicine, emergency assessment systems like SmED, eAppointment scheduling, and the integration of emergency control centres.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage several sub-projects concurrently within the acute and emergency care digitalisation programme.
• Develop or adjust a resilient, adaptable, and integrated IT service infrastructure that supports updated business processes, meeting explicit objectives for cost-effectiveness, user adoption, scalability, and compliance with data protection and information security standards.
• Oversee tendering and procurement procedures, including managing third-party vendors.
• Maintain continuous coordination with business stakeholders, programme management teams, and external collaborators.
• Establish conditions for the ongoing operation and support of IT services, including training internal IT personnel and end users.

Essential Qualifications

• Fluency in German at a native or professional level is mandatory, as all project communications and interviews are conducted in German.
• At least five years of experience managing complex IT projects involving extensive integration and collaboration between business and IT stakeholders.
• Between two and five years of professional experience within the German public healthcare system, such as involvement with physicians' associations, emergency care organizations, statutory health insurance entities, telematics, emergency dispatch services, or related institutions.
• Residency in Bavaria or neighboring regions, able to work onsite in Munich one day weekly with travel expenses reimbursed.
• Work must be executed within the European Union; delivery from outside the EU is not permitted.
• Availability starting 1 October 2026.
• Willingness to provide a recent (within six weeks of signing) German certificate of conduct (Führungszeugnis) free of any entries.

Working Details

• Start date: 1 October 2026.
• Initial contract duration: 3 months with automatic renewal options.
• Work location: Hybrid mode, predominantly remote with one mandatory onsite day each week in Munich.
• Working hours: Monday through Friday, from 08:00 to 18:00.
• Remote work allowed exclusively from within EU countries.