Job Description
Ready to boost your personal development in our fast-growing Digital practice? Interested in having an impact on big-name companies and hidden champions? Then this is the right place for you! Become a pioneer of the digital transformation and support us as a product manager.
Simon-Kucher is a global consultancy with more than 2,000 employees in 30+ countries.
Our sole focus is on unlocking better growth that drives measurable revenue and profit for our clients. We achieve this by optimizing every lever of their commercial strategy – product, price, innovation, marketing, and sales – based on deep insights into what customers want and value. With 40 years of experience in monetization topics of all kinds, we are regarded as the world's leading pricing and growth specialist.
We believe in building a culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion, creating an environment in which our people feel valued, are able to be themselves and feel their contribution matters. If we get that right, remarkable things will happen; people will grow faster, innovate, feel valued, and create better outcomes for everyone – our people, our clients and, of course, our business.
- Take over the end-to-end responsibility for custom software solutions from proposal stage, over requirements engineering, solution design and development until rollout and transition into software lifecycle.
- Use your unique vision to inspire clients and realize their business processes and strategies in apps and software.
- Be involved from the start by drafting business proposals, determining project scopes and conceptualized solutions for our clients.
- Team up with clients, consultants, UX designer and technical experts to lead the development of innovative concepts.
- Take the lead on implementing your software vision with internal and external development teams and ensure timely delivery as well as meet cost and quality expectations.
- You have a bachelor's or master's degree (business, computer science or a related field) and one to three years of professional experience in IT consulting, software development or product management.
- You have knowledge of and are enthusiastic about technology trends and digital topics, including cloud technologies, app development, and AI concepts.
- You have proven record of first-hand experience as a (technical) project manager.
- You have first-hand experience with customer- and consumer-facing applications ideally in the field of digital pricing, digital transformation, or digital sales.
- You are familiar with software development concepts (e.g., microservices vs. monolith), methodologies (e.g., Scrum, test driven development, etc.), and ideally have experience writing code.
- You have refined problem-solving skills to creatively translate business needs into digital solutions.
- You have strong interpersonal and communication skills and proactively, reliably, and enthusiastically work with clients, consultants, and developers.
- You are fluent in English (proficiency in additional languages, especially German, is a major advantage).
- Ideally you have a good understanding or even hands-on experience with some of the following topics: CI/CD, relational databases, data integrations, programming, devops and Cloud infrastructure.
- Advance your career with exciting professional opportunities in our thriving company with a startup feel
- Add to your experience with our projects that focus on growth, have a positive impact, and truly matter
- Voice your unique ideas in a corporate culture defined by our entrepreneurial spirit, openness, and integrity
- Feel at home working with our helpful, enthusiastic colleagues who have great team spirit
- Broaden your perspective with our extensive training curriculum and learning programs (e.g. LinkedIn Learning)
- Speak your mind in our holistic feedback and development processes (e.g. 360-degree feedback)
- Satisfy your need for adventure with our opportunities to live and work abroad in one of our many international offices
- Enjoy our benefits, such as daycare allowance, corporate discounts, and wellbeing support (e.g. Headspace)
- Unwind in our break areas where you can help yourself to the healthy snacks and beverages provided
- See another side of your coworkers at our frequent employee events and highly anticipated World Meeting and Holiday Party