[Hiring] Project Manager @DEKRA SERVICES INC

Role Description

As a Project Manager – Strategic Consulting at DEKRA, you'll serve as the central point of coordination for multiple client-facing engagements that help organizations improve safety, performance, and operational excellence. You will play a key role on each engagement’s leadership team. You will translate project objectives into clear plans, facilitate discussions that remove roadblocks, monitor scope, schedule, and budget, and ensure deliverables meet DEKRA's high standards of quality.

Along the way, you'll collaborate closely with consultants, subject matter experts, and client leaders, providing clear communication and actionable insights that help keep projects on track and clients successful.

What You’ll Do:

• Contribute to a safe and healthy work environment by actively participating, taking responsibility, and following established procedures and policies.
• Project manage multiple client engagements simultaneously.
• Translate signed proposals into actionable work breakdown structures.
• Lead project kickoff meetings in collaboration with project leadership.
• Build detailed project plans and dashboards to keep internal and client stakeholders aligned and informed.
• Identify and manage risks to ensure engagements stay on track and within budget.
• Lead strategic project reviews with top levels of client leadership.
• Facilitate project cadences that drive execution and accountability across project teams.
• Present program insights, impact metrics, and strategic recommendations to clients and internal leadership.
• Collaborate on internal initiatives to build out new PMO capabilities, processes, and tools.
• Ensure all deliverables meet DEKRA’s quality standards and exceed client expectations.
• Be proactive in managing your projects and demonstrate a continuous learner mindset.
• Collaborate with executive sponsors and sales to identify commercial opportunities and manage scope changes.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in business administration or related field preferred.
• 3-5 years of project management experience required, including managing multiple concurrent projects (PM experience in client-facing, professional services engagements strongly preferred).
• Demonstrated ability to independently drive multiple projects to successful completion with minimal oversight, while maintaining high levels of client satisfaction.
• Proven track record of managing both internal and client stakeholders, including developing relationships, managing expectations, and navigating through organizational challenges.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and apply structured problem-solving to project challenges.
• Experience using one or more project management applications (MS Project, Smartsheet, Planview, etc.) required.
• Experience establishing project governance, decision-making processes, and stakeholder accountability frameworks.
• Management consulting experience preferred.
• Familiarity with organizational change and transformation initiatives preferred.
• Knowledge of workplace safety principles and experience working with clients in industrial or high-risk industries (e.g., oil & gas, manufacturing, pulp & paper, mining, chemicals, utilities) preferred.

Requirements

• Project management certifications (e.g., PMP) preferred.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience in project management applications.
• Experienced leveraging AI-enabled tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot).

Benefits

• Health care benefits: medical & prescription, dental, vision (including Domestic Partners).
• Critical Illness & Hospital Indemnity supplemental insurance.
• Company Health Savings Account contribution.
• Flexible Spending Account for eligible health care and dependent care expenses.
• Paid time off such as vacation, sick leave, and floating holidays.
• Mental and emotional support resources through our Employee Assistance Program.
• Wellness Program to increase activity and health habits, with ability to earn participation rewards.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Travel Assist (Domestic/International).
• 401(k) plan, with an employer match.
• Company paid Short- & Long-Term Disability benefits.
• Group term life insurance with options to buy-up for self and others.
• Working Advantage – DEKRA’s official corporate discount program.
• Education Assistance Program.
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance.
• Internal training and development resources to grow your career.
• LEAD Forward Leadership Development Program.
• Annual Career Goal Setting and Performance Review cycle participation.