Senior Project Manager

Role Description

Pragmatike is recruiting on behalf of a fast-growing industrial technology company developing AI-powered software that helps manufacturers optimize production processes, improve operational efficiency, reduce energy consumption, and accelerate digital transformation across complex industrial environments. We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead customer-facing software implementation and industrial digitalization projects from planning through successful delivery.

This role is ideal for someone with experience managing complex implementation projects, coordinating multidisciplinary teams, and working closely with engineering, operations, and customer stakeholders. You'll play a key role in delivering innovative technology solutions that enable industrial organizations to improve plant performance through data-driven optimization and digital transformation.

What You'll Do

• Lead end-to-end implementation of industrial software and digital transformation projects for manufacturing customers.
• Develop project plans, timelines, resource allocation, budgets, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams across engineering, product, operations, and customer organizations.
• Manage multiple concurrent customer implementations while ensuring projects are delivered on time and within scope.
• Build trusted relationships with customer stakeholders and serve as the primary point of contact throughout project delivery.
• Translate customer operational requirements into structured implementation plans.
• Identify project risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks, implementing mitigation strategies where necessary.
• Facilitate project meetings, workshops, status updates, and executive reporting.
• Ensure successful deployment, adoption, and handover of software solutions.
• Support change management and customer adoption throughout implementation.
• Monitor project KPIs, timelines, budgets, and overall delivery performance.
• Contribute to improving project delivery methodologies and operational excellence across the organization.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading software implementation, industrial digitalization, or technical delivery projects.
• Experience working with manufacturing, industrial, or process industry customers.
• Strong project management experience coordinating multidisciplinary and cross-functional teams.
• Experience managing customer-facing projects and executive stakeholders.
• Excellent planning, communication, organization, and leadership skills.
• Ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive, ownership-driven mindset.
• Comfortable working independently within a fully remote international team.

Nice to Have

• Experience with industrial software, manufacturing systems, or process optimization platforms.
• Familiarity with Industry 4.0 technologies, Industrial IoT, MES, SCADA, DCS, or historian systems.
• Experience delivering projects within industries such as cement, mining, metals, chemicals, pulp & paper, or manufacturing.
• PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum, or equivalent project management certifications.
• Experience leading digital transformation initiatives within industrial environments.
• Exposure to Lean Manufacturing or Continuous Improvement methodologies.

Why Join?

Our client develops AI-powered industrial software that helps some of the world's leading manufacturers optimize production, improve efficiency, reduce operational costs, and make smarter decisions through real-time process intelligence. You'll join an international, collaborative team delivering impactful technology projects across global industrial organizations while working in a high-ownership environment that values innovation, customer success, and continuous improvement.