Your tasks
- Actively shaping the strategic direction of CIO PUK in a high-performing team, providing proactive impulses, and independently driving measures that improve the Key Area.
- Taking ownership of the successful implementation of strategic programmes for CIO PUK and/or acting as the central CIO PUK contact for those programmes and/or engage in project portfolio steering.
- Providing guidance to others and contributing your own perspectives in discussions with accountable stakeholders.
- Preparing management materials and ensuring consistent, high-quality, and timely delivery.
- Maintaining an end-to-end view across a broad portfolio of topics and applying a high personal standard of quality and performance.
- Spearheading our DTC operations in Sofia, engaging with disciplinary managers in Frankfurt and acting as guide for more junior staff locally.
- Championing teamwork and actively strengthening collaboration across organizational boundaries.
Your Profile
- Successfully completed university degree and very good written and spoken English, complemented by at least good German language skills. Any better German skills will be highly beneficial in your role.
- Experience in project management.
- Confident use of AI tools, such as Microsoft 365 Copilot, and a strong commitment to integrating them purposefully into day-to-day work.
- You identify the need for action, develop pragmatic solutions, and bring topics successfully over the finish line with persistence and execution strength.
- You do not wait for instructions; you act proactively, take ownership, and independently move topics forward.
- You work pragmatically and solution-oriented while retaining a clear overview in complex situations.
- You bring strong self-motivation, learn new topics quickly, and independently develop effective solutions.
- You know how to align diverse stakeholders behind shared objectives and achieve sustainable outcomes.
- You have gained experience in IT (e.g. from working in the IT / our delivery organization) and through that you gained know-how on how IT works and different technologies used.
In return, we offer:
- Good work-life balance, including 25 days annual paid leave (increasing with 1 day per year up to 31 in total), flexible working hours, work-from-home and work from abroad opportunities;
- Luxury package of additional health and dental insurance;
- Food vouchers in the amount of EUR 80 monthly;
- 6 additional annual days off for exceptional circumstances
- Employee assistance program for psychological, financial and legal consultations;
- Multisport card;
- Annual contribution of EUR 153.39 net per child for a summer camp/school/kindergarten for children up to age of 15;
- Possibilities for building career-advancing skills by covering training/certification courses and conferences based on individual learning and development needs, access to an online learning platform;
- Opportunities for long-term professional development in a stable, 150-year-old company while contributing to the vision of a new, just starting Digital Technology Center;
- Friendly and supportive multicultural environment, open to new opinions and ideas.
Commerzbank is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, color, national origin, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetics, disability, age, or any other characteristics.
The company
Commerzbank is a leading international commercial bank with branches and offices in almost 50 countries. The world is changing, becoming digital, and so are we. We are leaving the traditional bank behind us and we are choosing to move forward as a digital enterprise.
As part of this strategy, Commerzbank continues the expansion of its Digital Technology Center in Sofia, Bulgaria. We need motivated people who will join us on this journey and we are looking for a Project Manager Key Area Strategy & Development in our Key Area Steering & Development.
We keep it running, we make it simple, and we make the difference – this is our philosophy in CIO PSBC. CIO PSBC is building the digital advisory bank of tomorrow and is responsible for the bank's core products, including accounts and deposits, payments, securities, and lending. Key Area Steering & Development (KASD) owns the strategic, steering, transformation-related, and architectural agenda across CIO PSBC and serves as the direct interface to the CIO PSBC Executive Board member and the Cluster Leads.
The role consists of two parts:
First, we are looking for a seasoned project manager who combines strategic thinking with strong technical or analytical understanding and a clear focus on execution. You will connect management, the bank's strategic programmes, and our cluster delivery organisations, helping translate strategic objectives into measurable implementation. Together, we will further develop the CIO PUK strategy and transform the Key Area.
Second, we just started ramping up our presence in Sofia. You will be the local lead for other people in our division in Sofia. As part of this role alongside the disciplinary managers in Frankfurt, you will guide more junior staff and help develop our local franchise.
Contact
Apply now with your up-to-date CV in English!
Due to the high volume of applications, we contact only the candidates who best match the role requirements. If you do not hear from us within 14 days, please consider that we won't proceed with your application at this stage.