Project Manager (m/f/d)*

Successful candidates must be prepared to relocate to the specified job location in the job posting and will be employed directly under the hiring entity’s contractual terms.

Munich Re is a global market leader in re-insurance, global specialty insurance and digital solutions.  New technologies are disrupting the insurance value chain. Our innovative minds in IT spearhead the transformation and make change happen. We support clients with a comprehensive range of insurance and risk management products. Our goal is to become even more digital through the expertise of our IT & Tech specialists, and by leveraging data and insights to support innovation and client service. We are therefore making targeted IT investments and helping our insurance clients and partners to tackle problems in the modern digital world with innovative and forward-looking solutions.

This role will be part of the Investment & Asset Management Tower for Group Technology (IT1.9), responsible for ensuring the availability, reliability, and maintenance of all investment and asset management systems, applications, and platforms. The Tower manages the seamless transition of new systems or projects to steady-state operations and takes ownership of key business relationships, providing accurate metrics on uptime, issues, and resolutions.

This role goes beyond traditional project management.
We are explicitly not looking for a classic project manager who focuses solely on leading individual projects. Instead, the position is centered on the professional steering of a broader project landscape, ensuring transparency, structure, and andministrational tasks.

The role combines:

• Project Management
• Delivery Management
• PMO responsibilities

and has a direct impact on overall project success, by enabling effective governance, coordination, and execution across projects.

Your Job

Project Steering & Delivery

• Support, steer and coordinate multiple projects in parallel
• Establish and maintain structured project plans, milestones, and dependencies
• Drive active status management and ensure transparency on progress
• Identify, assess, and manage risks proactively
• Detect escalation needs early and prepare decision-making materials
• Ensure projects are delivered in a structured and efficient way
• Track actions, deliverables, and open items consistently

PMO, Governance & Controlling

• Create full transparency across project status, cost, and risks
• Perform project controlling including budget tracking and forecasting
• Plan and align resources with the technical leads across multiple projects
• Work with and maintain central tools, especially: 
  
  • Clarity (project and financial management)
  • Coupa (procurement and provider management)
• Manage external vendors and service providers
•  Support procurement processes and service engagements
• Track invoices and ensure cost transparency
• Prepare and continuously improve steering and management reports
• Maintain high-quality project plans and documentation
• Ensure adherence to governance frameworks and methodologies (e.g. MR Essentials)

Stakeholder Management & Communication

• Act as the central organizational point of contact for project steering
• Coordinate between Business, IT, Enterprise Architecture, and external providers
• Align different stakeholder perspectives and interests
• Create transparency in complex and dynamic project environments
• Drive expectation management across stakeholders
• Moderate meetings, alignments, and decision forums
• Ensure a structured and reliable flow of information

Your Profile

Professional Experience

• Several years of experience in project management, preferably in complex IT environments
• Proven experience in managing or steering multiple projects in parallel
• Strong background in PMO and project governance
• Experience in project controlling including budget and forecasting
• Solid experience in resource planning and coordination
• Strong stakeholder management across different organizational levels
• Experience with vendor and provider management
• Practical experience with tools such as Clarity; Coupa is an advantage
• Experience in SAP projects, is an advantage

Personal Profile

• Highly structured and organized working style
• Strong ownership mindset and accountability
• Pragmatic and solution-oriented thinking
• Ability to operate effectively in complex and unclear situations
• Strong communication skills combined with diplomatic stakeholder handling
• Ability to align and integrate different perspectives
• Self-driven and reliable, with a high level of responsibility
• Strong team orientation with the motivation to enable others to succeed

Important: You understand governance, transparency, and operational project coordination not as administrative overhead, but as a key success factor for delivering projects successfully.

Why this role matters

• bringing structure to complex project environments
• enabling transparency and informed decision-making
• ensuring consistent project execution
• and ultimately driving the success of multiple projects and programs 
• understanding complex regulatory topics and bring them together with a highly automized SAP environment

Application Instructions

Please apply through our online portal and upload your CV, as well as your academic reference letters, including school certificates, graduation certificates and transcripts of record for any degrees. If applicable, please also submit reference letters from any previous employers or certificates from any other qualifications you may have. We recommend writing a cover letter to tell us more about why the position and Munich Re is of interest to you.

About us

As the world's leading reinsurance company with more than 16,000 employees at over 50 locations, Munich Re introduces a paradigm shift in the way you think about insurance. By turning uncertainty into a manageable risk we enable fundamental change. Join us working on topics today that will concern society tomorrow, whether that be climate change, major construction projects, medical risk assessment or even space travel.  
Together we embrace a culture where multiskilled teams dare to think big. We create the new and the different for our clients and cultivate innovation. 
Sounds like you? Push boundaries with us and be part of Munich Re. 
Our employees are our greatest strength. That’s why we offer them a wide range of benefits. You can find some examples below. 

Unlock your potential

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: we embrace the power of differences and are convinced that diversity fosters innovation and resilience and enables us to act braver and better.
• Continuous Learning: we believe that continuous learning is a key differentiator and critical for building new skills and accelerating growth.
• Career Mobility: we actively support career mobility, and our strong global and regional presence offers a wealth of career growth opportunities for you.

Rewards & Recognition

• Competitive salary: appropriate compensation for your high level of commitment.
• Retirement provision: state of the art in-house pension solutions.
• Work-life balance: promoting the compatibility of family and work in addition to overall work-life balance.
• Health management: focus on your physical and mental health far beyond legal requirements. 
• Hybrid working: living the best of both worlds – we offer you a very flexible approach as well as the opportunity to work from abroad on an occasional basis.

* Munich Re not only stands for fairness with regard to its clients; it is also an equal opportunities employer. Severely disabled candidates will also be prioritized, if equally qualified.

Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft
Timo Wacke
Talent Acquisition Partner