Group Data Project Management Lead
This is a leading-by-doing role. You personally own the delivery of a country’s migration to the Global Data Platform end to end - from the plan agreed with country management, through analysis and build, to handover to the local team - coordinating the central domain teams, delivery partners, country IT and the business into one working plan. At the same time you lead the project managers across the programme: you set the delivery standard they work to, review their plans, keep reporting consistent, and step in where a project needs help. Across both, you keep the programme honest - realistic schedules, visible risks, managed dependencies and steering committees that hear the true status.
Required education: School-leaving exam
Required languages: English (advanced), Czech or Slovak (benefitial)
Employment form: Full-time work
You’ll be a great match if you can:
- Run a full delivery lifecycle - from activation outputs and effort estimates through implementation, UAT and handover to the country team
- Lead and grow other project managers - set the standard, review their plans and reporting, and coach them through the hard moments
- Build and maintain a realistic plan across central domain teams, delivery partners, country IT and business stakeholders
- Manage dependencies outside your direct control - ERP, POS/RMS and other in-flight programmes competing for the same people
- Own one consolidated programme view - consistent status, risks, budget and effort across all running country projects
- Run steering committees and status reporting that executives trust - clear RAG, real risks, concrete asks
- Secure and protect business capacity - validation workshops, UAT and sign-offs planned around business availability
- Drive delivery through a quality-gate SDLC - holding teams to defined artifacts and clear pass/fail moments
- Solid project management experience delivering data, BI or data warehouse programmes - ideally migrations
- Experience leading other project managers - formally or as the senior PM others calibrate against
- Experience running projects across multiple organisations at once - internal teams, vendors and business stakeholders
- Strong planning and estimation discipline - you keep the plan real, not aspirational
- Confidence with executives - steering committees, escalations and difficult status messages
- Budget ownership experience - tracking spend and effort against plan
- Strong structured communication - you are the single point of truth between technical teams and the business
- Fluent English - you work with colleagues across multiple countries daily
- Being based in Czechia, ideally Prague
Nice to have:
- PRINCE2, PMP or similar certification; experience with stage-gate / quality-gate delivery
- Experience building or running a PMO in a multi-country programme
- Retail or pharma industry background
- Czech language skills
- Familiarity with the modern data stack - Databricks, Power BI, Azure
- Working for the largest pharma retail company in CEE with great expansion plans
- A company with a meaningful purpose, an outstanding customer value proposition within an industry offering a resilient, non-cyclical growth pattern
- Global-level job within group headquarters with a group-wide impact
- Space for professional growth within a growing organization
- Attractive financial compensation (salary and yearly bonuses)
- Flexible working hours, possibility of 1 day home office/week
- 5 weeks of holidays, discounts in Dr. Max pharmacies, meal vouchers, fully paid Multisport card, public transport contribution, referral bonus etc.
- Modern offices in Prague and friendly colleagues on top!
If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your CV to groupHR@drmax.eu
Dr. Max Group is a European pharmaceutical concern owned by Penta, an investment group established in 1994, operating primarily in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Their offices are located in Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw, and Limassol. The business areas of Penta Investments include long-term investing in healthcare, financial services, retail, manufacturing, media and real estate development. The companies of Penta’s portfolio employ more than 43,000 people, with more than 22,000 professionals working in healthcare. The group’s assets value reached €14 billion in 2022.