Transformation Project Manager

Company Description
**We Dream. We Do. We Deliver.**

As a **full-service, data-driven customer experience transformation agency**, we partner with Top 500 companies in the DACH region and in Eastern Europe. Originally from Japan, Dentsu DACH has two strong operations for media and CXM Consumer Experience Management.

Our **3000+ advertising experts and digital enthusiasts** are innovating the way brands are built, through providing expertise in Digital Transformation strategy, MarTech platforms, Creativity, UX, CRM, Data, Commerce, Mobile, Social Media, Intranet and CMS. We are part of the global Merkle brand, the largest brand within the dentsu group, who shares with us a network of over 66,000 passionate individuals in 146 countries.

**Job Description**:
We are seeking an experienced Manager for the Business Transformation Consulting Team at Dentsu’s Manager/Principal career level. The role reports to the DACH Head of Business Transformation Consulting and will work closely with colleagues from aligned business functions including Business Intelligence, HR and Finance.

Key Responsibilities:

- Being an excellent Project Manager with a mindset that is critical on Status quo, proactive on solution definition and meticulous on results.
- Overlooking all Change Initiatives in DACH
- Valued sparring partner for inhouse clients, Units and other stakeholders on a senior level.
- Build based on well-founded knowledge of methods a transformation roadmap.
- Understand internal clients' financial and business processes, and provide recommendations on how D365 can be used to support and improve these processes.
- Collaborate with project teams and stakeholders to define project scope, requirements, and deliverables.
- Perform data analysis and mapping, and design and execute test plans to ensure system functionality and data accuracy.
- Thinking in the end-to-end process, understand how data flows withing the landscape
- Create needed stories to get decisions from senior stakeholders, lead escalations and come up with mitigation approaches.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest D365 developments and technologies, and proactively recommend enhancements and best practices to clients.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience working within Operations, Functions or Consultancy.
- Strong understanding of financial and business processes.
- Experience with configuring, customizing, and developing solutions requirements.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with project teams and stakeholders.
- Experience with data analysis and mapping, and designing and executing test plans.

**We do not sponsor work visa.**

For those who don’t have **Portuguese documents **(NIF and NISS), we suggest you to search for more information at local country Social Security entities, as well as on SEF (Serviços Estrangeiros e Fronteiras), for possible roles in Merkle Portugal.

Additional Information
**Benefits & Perks**:

- Cutting-edge technology & latest IT tools
- Software-house environment
- Career path (training and mentoring)
- Agile and flexible working hours
- Awesome location and great accesses to the city center
- Team & Company events
- Beers (after 6pm), foosball, and ping-pong #workhardplayhard
- Free breakfast every second Monday of the month
- Football and Running Clubs
- Volunteering experiences

**Inclusion & Diversity**
- We value the strength diversity brings to our business and are working hard to build a more inclusive workplace through partnerships with Stonewall, Business Disability Forum and Business in the Community’s race and gender equality campaigns. We are happy to discuss all flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles - we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly._
- If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with the recruiter who contacts you._