Senior Project Operations Manager (80–100%)

About the job

Do you feel at home in professional project management, enjoy working with numbers, and keep an overview even in complex projects? Then become part of our team at one of Switzerland's leading marketing agencies! As a Senior Project Operations Manager, you ensure that our client projects are operationally well-structured, monitored, and billed. Your focus is on operational Project Management, Project Monitoring, and Performance Tracking: You keep an eye on project health, identify deviations early, and together with our internal project managers, accounting, and controlling, ensure reliable operational project execution.

Your tasks are…

• You manage complex client projects throughout the operational project lifecycle – from setup and offer structure in our project management system BCS to complete project closure
• You monitor the basic metrics of the project as well as other relevant project KPIs, compare these with defined thresholds, and identify deviations and risks early
• You are responsible for project monitoring for projects with more complex and dynamic requirements and ensure an up-to-date and reliable data basis
• You ensure complete and formally correct project billing and handle different billing models as well as credit notes, cancellations, and invoice corrections
• You ensure high data quality and data integrity, structure and categorise project data, taking into account the requirements of internal stakeholders
• You coordinate project-relevant information with internal project managers, accounting, and controlling and are the central contact person for operational questions regarding Project Operations and BCS
  

You…

• have a solid understanding of professional project management, for example from a project assistant or project management role or a Project Management Office (PMO)
• bring sound knowledge in project controlling and can independently analyse and classify more complex project requirements as well as plan-actual deviations
• have experience with Project Performance Tracking and Project Data Governance and can analyse complex KPIs and project data in a structured way
• have a professional understanding of commercial billing and administration, also in an international context
• have already organised project management with professional digital tools and feel comfortable in a fully digital working environment
• think analytically and methodically, recognise patterns and connections, and can diagnose problems precisely and work on solutions
• work in a structured and reliable manner, keep an overview even in complex and dynamic projects, and speak German at least at C1 level as well as fluent English 
  
  

We…

• have been awarded as a Kununu Top Employer. This means Webrepublicans enjoy working with us, are proud of their work and their company
• work in modern offices directly at Enge station. With us, you will find open spaces where creative ideas arise, quiet zones where you can work focused, roof terraces, and rooms for lunch with your team. Additionally, you can work out in our gym or relax on the yoga mat
• offer you plenty of freedom and at the same time a lot of responsibility; this also includes the possibility to work from home office and abroad and offer attractive additional benefits
• work in small, personal teams with the most motivated and smartest minds in the industry and treat each other at eye level

Interested? Our recruiter, Julia, looks forward to your online application with a short CV. It’s very simple and only takes a few minutes! You can safely omit the cover letter; it’s better to convince us in a personal interview.