[Hiring] Freelance Project Manager @Cuculus GmbH

Role Description

As Project Manager LATAM (m/f/d), you lead our smart metering projects across Latin America, from kick-off to go-live. You keep scope, timelines and margin on track, and you spot new customer needs early.

Your Mission & Impact:

• Project delivery: You plan and steer smart metering projects end-to-end. You track milestones, report on project status and manage delays before they become problems.
• Scope & change management: You protect the agreed scope. You handle customer objections professionally, manage change requests and make clear when additional modules or licences are needed, while keeping the customer on board.
• Stakeholder management: You connect utility stakeholders, local partners, our international project team and internal tech teams, ensuring clear and transparent communication on all sides.
• Technical coordination: You drive deliverables and technical clarifications together with our engineering and delivery teams.
• Customer presence: You present to customers, run project meetings and represent Cuculus on site.
• Business development: You spot new needs and opportunities outside the current project scope and hand them over to our Sales team for LATAM.
• Travel: You travel regularly to customer sites in the region (approx. 1 week per month).

Qualifications

• 8+ years of project management experience, including complex customer projects you have led independently.
• You have handled scope disputes, change requests and demanding customers yourself, and you know how to protect the project budget without damaging the relationship.
• Experience in IT, software, telecom, smart metering or AMI environments, so you quickly find your way around our technical setup.
• Hands-on experience with project management tools, ideally MS Project.
• Business-fluent in Spanish and English (B2-C1).
• You present confidently to customers and stay calm and convincing in difficult conversations.
• You work independently and can reliably overlap with European business hours.
• Willingness to travel approx. 1 week per month within Latin America.

Requirements

• Commercial mindset: Experience in technical sales or presales, or a natural sense for business opportunities.
• Utilities: Experience managing projects for utilities or energy companies.
• Portuguese: Helpful for future projects in Brazil.
• Smart metering expertise: Familiarity with AMI systems, MDMS, or protocols such as DLMS/COSEM and RF Mesh.
• Regional know-how: Knowledge of utility standards and regulations in Latin America (e.g., Peru).

Benefits

• A freelance engagement until the end of 2027, with the clear intention to continue beyond that.
• You are part of our Project Management team and work hand in hand with our Sales Head for LATAM, our engineering teams and local partners.
• Work from your home country with flexible hours across European and Latin American time zones.
• You will be at the centre of our expansion in Latin America from the start.
• Short decision-making paths, open feedback culture and genuine trust.
• A structured onboarding to get you started quickly.
• Meaningful work, with software that shapes the energy market of tomorrow.