Project Manager Portugal (m/f/d)

Role description:

You don't manage processes – you own results. In this role, you take full responsibility for international development projects, always keeping the product as a whole in focus. You bring solid technical knowledge across hardware, software, and quality – not as a specialist, but as someone who understands how everything connects, can assess what they're being told, and knows exactly when and where to push back. You think in systems: you understand how hardware, embedded software, quality, and production interact – and you immediately spot when one subsystem puts the whole product at risk.

Your responsibilities:

• Full ownership of international development projects, working closely with development teams at our headquarters in Germany and our development site in China
• Leading cross-functional teams across hardware and software development, quality assurance, production, and product management
• System-level view of the overall product: analyzing interactions between development areas, identifying systemic risks, and ensuring all subsystems contribute to a working end product
• Critically evaluating progress reports, quality assessments, and technical dependencies across all project areas – always forming your own informed, independent judgement
• Proactive risk management: identifying project risks early, defining concrete measures, and following through until resolved
• Presenting project status, risks, and decision proposals at top management level – clearly, convincingly, and to the point
• Communicating effectively at every level: from engineers on the floor to the executive board – always with the right tone and the right level of detail
• Close collaboration with internal stakeholders from development, quality, production, and marketing, as well as external partners