(Senior) Project Manager (m/f/x)

Our vision - your future

Cofinity-X is a joint venture founded in 2023 by BASF, BMW Group, Henkel, Mercedes-Benz, SAP, Schaeffler, Siemens, T-Systems, Volkswagen, and ZF. Established by industry experts, our company is primed for growth and is intended to be further led by professionals like yourself. Your mission

• Take end-to-end responsibility for our portfolio of large-scale, publicly funded European AI research projects, from kick-off to final reporting
• Steer all work packages across multiple projects: plan scope, milestones and deliverables, track progress and resolve dependencies between partners
• Manage multi-partner consortia of industrial companies, research institutions and associations across several EU member states

• Act as the primary contact for funding bodies and project management agencies, owning interim and final reports, change requests and proof of use
• Own project financials in close alignment with Finance, including budget planning, cost tracking, personnel planning and eligibility of costs
• Ensure compliance with national and European funding and state aid requirements, including documentation, dissemination and open-source obligations
• Work closely with our Machine Learning team to translate project objectives into technical work plans and make sure deliverables land on time and in quality
• Coordinate dissemination activities such as publications, open-source releases and events across the dataspace ecosystem (e.g. Catena-X)

• Identify project risks early, escalate where needed and drive mitigation

Your profile

• 5+ years of project management experience, including at least 3 years in publicly funded R&D projects with multi-partner consortia (e.g. IPCEI)

• Ideally, you have already acted as consortium coordinator and bring experience with dataspaces and a project management certification (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2)

• Solid knowledge of German and European funding frameworks and their financial rules (e.g. AGVO)

• Strong technical affinity: you can discuss AI, machine learning and data architectures with engineers at eye level, without writing code yourself

• Proven ability to run several complex workstreams in parallel with a high level of structure and reliability

• Excellent stakeholder management skills and comfort working with senior representatives from industry, research and public authorities

• Fluent German and English, written and spoken

Why us?

• Hybrid working model 
• Balanced work-life balance with flexible working hours 
• Annual training budget for continuous professional and personal development (1.500 EUR) 
• Free choice of hardware 
• Monthly lunch subsidy (up to 115 EUR) 
• Deutschland Ticket and Job Bike for environmentally friendly mobility options 
• Workation to work remotely from different locations within the EU 
• We offer every employee a pensions scheme (bAV) with company sponsorship 
• Regular team events to strengthen cohesion and foster a positive working atmosphere 
• A modern office with an impressive view of the Cologne Cathedral 

About us

Cofinity-X GmbH is based in Cologne and was founded in 2023. It is a joint venture of BASF, BMW Group, Henkel, Mercedes-Benz, SAP, Schaeffler, Siemens, T-Systems, Volkswagen and ZF. The vision of Cofinity-X is to run an open marketplace for the provision of own and third-party business applications and further services that enable secured and standardized data transfer along the automotive value chain in accordance with the Gaia-X and Catena-X principles with initial focus on the European market.