Project Manager: GIS, Location: Lucerne or Bern Belp
Key information
- Publication date:01 August 2025
- Workload:100%
- Contract type:Permanent position
- Place of work:Zürich
Job summary
As a project manager at Laixo, you'll drive customer-centric digital processes. Join a dynamic team and enjoy a flexible work environment and growth opportunities.
Tasks
- Lead projects from acquisition to billing and ensure quality.
- Collaborate actively with clients for effective project execution.
- Advise on process digitization using our innovative solutions.
Skills
- Background in geomatics, geography, or IT with project management experience.
- Strong communication skills and extroverted personality are essential.
- Proficiency in German and basic GIS knowledge is a plus.
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Tasks
As a project manager, you represent the needs of our clients internally and ensure that their processes are digitized. Occasionally, you need to persuade and question existing workflows. Together with the Laixo team, you develop efficient and modern solutions, always within the available project budget and timeline as well as the technical possibilities. In a young company with a lot of room for creativity, you have the opportunity to develop yourself and us further and to shape the project business.
- Leading projects from acquisition through planning and realization to billing
- Responsibility for project content, quality, budget, timeline
- Active collaboration with clients for the targeted implementation of the project
- Consulting on the digitization of processes with our solutions
- Interface between client and development, understanding needs and formulating requirements so that project developments can be implemented efficiently
- Participation in the technical project implementation using the available technical resources efficiently in the GIS and IT environment
- Coordination of all project participants
- Development and establishment of our processes in project implementation
- Active participation in acquisition and/or account management
Requirements
We are looking for a personality who represents our company externally. You are extroverted and open, enjoy communicating, and actively contribute.
- Initiative and solution-oriented personality with a solid education in the fields of geomatics, geography, computer science, or similar
- Several years of experience in leading projects in application configuration or software development
- Experience working with external clients
- Basic knowledge of agile methods in project management and software development.
- Ability to quickly understand complex problems, map them into processes, and develop creative solutions
- Very good German language skills
- Basic GIS knowledge (terminology, distinction from classical IT, etc.)
- Technical affinity and good IT knowledge
- Willingness to work about 2 days a week from our office in Zurich-Oerlikon
- Good GIS knowledge, especially with Esri products
- Completed training/continuing education in project management
- Experience in acquisition and/or account management
We offer
We offer modern working conditions with a 40-hour week and at least 5 weeks of vacation. Home office options are available. We provide training and continuing education according to your individual needs. For questions, our CEO Martin Metter (martin.mettler@laixo.ch) is happy to provide information. We fill these positions without external recruiters.
