Senior IT Project Manager (m/f/d) - Network Migration & CENELEC (Ref. No.: 48017)

For an exciting project with our client in Bern (with a remote component per week), we are looking for a Senior IT Project Manager (m/f/d) - Network Migration & CENELEC.

Key Facts
Start: 02.11.2026
Duration: 6 months /
Utilization: 100 %
Type of Assignment:
Location: Bern
Country of Assignment: Switzerland

Your Tasks

• Define and coordinate project scope, objectives, and boundaries with stakeholders

• Establish transparency regarding applications and services to be migrated and consolidate existing foundations

• Ensure that relevant processes, guidelines, and frameworks are known and considered in the project

• Ensure that the necessary foundations and artifacts for type approval are available in a timely manner

• Incorporate results and decisions from type approval into subsequent work packages

• Make dependencies, risks, and decision needs transparent and address them in the project

• Coordinate the further development of the change process for safety-relevant functions with the functionally responsible party

• Ensure that the required inputs from the program and the involved specialist departments are available

• Consider impacts on migration, approval, and safety evidence provision across domains

• Feed relevant results and decisions back into the overall project and subsequent work packages

• Coordinate the required contributions to safety evidence provision with the functionally responsible parties

• Ensure that necessary evidence work is planned, commissioned, and coordinated in a timely manner

• Coordinate contributions from involved departments and partners as well as the required assessments

• Align dependencies, deadlines, and results with other work packages

• Coordinate the migration planning with the functionally responsible party and integrate it into the overall project

• Ensure that prerequisites and results from approval, change process, and evidence provision are incorporated into the migration planning in a timely manner

• Feed insights from concrete migrations and pilot projects back into the relevant work packages

• Make cross-cutting dependencies, risks, and decision needs transparent and track their resolution

• Clarify and document roles, responsibilities, and interfaces with involved departments

• Appropriately regulate the storage, versioning, and governance of relevant project results and evidence

• Ensure the coordinated transfer of clarified roles, processes, and responsibilities to the responsible organizations

• Plan, structure, and manage the overall project according to the mandate and program roadmap

• Take responsibility for agreed project results, deadlines, budget, risks, and quality

• Manage work packages and their interfaces and dependencies across domains

• Coordinate involved stakeholders from railway technology, energy, telecommunications, safety, engineering, and operations

• Ensure the flow of information and results between work packages and responsible organizational units

• Communicate project progress, risks, and need for action and report to program management



Must-Have Requirements

• Several years of experience in managing technically and organizationally demanding projects, ideally in the railway sector

• Experience in the CENELEC environment or with development, change, or evidence processes for safety-relevant systems

• In-depth knowledge of classic project management methods as well as experience in a complex corporate or organizational environment

• Experience in managing multiple functionally responsible work packages and their dependencies

• Ability to align different specialist departments and stakeholders towards common project goals, even without direct line management responsibility

• Structured and independent way of working, as well as strong communication, moderation, and problem-solving skills

• Basic understanding of data networks and their technical interrelationships

• Open and communicative personality with a quick grasp

• Fluent German and English language skills, both spoken and written



Nice-to-Have Requirements

• Experience with approval, safety, or evidence processes in the railway sector

• Proficient with migrations of applications or services to new technical platforms



Further Information

- Assignment duration: immediately or by arrangement until the end of April 2027 (3-6 months) with an option for extension

- Workload: 80-100%

- Location: Bern & Remote (per week)

Let’s power the future together
From the business case to implementation: As a leading consulting firm for strategic transformations, we are a trusted partner for our clients - and for our employees. Responsible, high-performing, and always with a focus on people. #WeAreWavestone
With our 360° portfolio of consulting services, we combine first-class industry expertise with a broad spectrum of cross-industry competencies, work interdisciplinarily, and think outside the box. We can thus offer our partner companies and freelancers comprehensive perspectives within our own projects and support them as a long-term framework contract partner in filling project vacancies – promptly and directly.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Your direct contact at Wavestone
Vivek Kandiah
Phone: +41 76 223 85 15
Email: -----

Find more English Speaking Jobs in Switzerland on Arbeitnow