StepStone

ZEISS

Job Description
Step out of your comfort zone, excel and redefine the limits of what is possible. That's just what our employees are doing every single day – in order to set the pace through our innovations and enable outstanding achievements. After all, behind every successful company are many great fascinating people.

In a spacious modern setting full of opportunities for further development, ZEISS employees work in a place where expert knowledge and team spirit reign supreme. All of this is supported by a special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation: to bring science and society into the future together.

Join us today. Inspire people tomorrow.

Diversity is a part of ZEISS. We look forward to receiving your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, philosophy of life, disability, age, sexual orientation or identity.

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At Zeiss Digital Partners (ZDP), we have a clear goal: Enabling and accelerating the digital transformation of ZEISS @speed and @scale. We develop digital solutions jointly with the ZEISS business units and accelerating innovation that delivers a future value for our customers and our company. Digital Business Innovation within ZDP is a cross-functional team building digital solutions and business models as well as driving strategic digital programs. We apply customer-centric methodologies like Design Thinking and Voice of the Customer and combine those with our business and strategy acumen.

Join us as a Project Manager to shape and contribute towards the success of the digital transformation at ZEISS.

Your role

  • Manage the topic of change management across different cross-ZEISS digital transformation programs

  • Shape, structure and further develop the change management strategy and approach within our program organization

  • Consult and coach project teams with change management demand and support/enable project leads to integrate actionable change deliverables into their project plans

  • Conduct impact analyses, assess change readiness, and identify key change management activities for stakeholders and target groups

  • Develop our change management toolbox for our digital transformational projects and identify further change management measures to support the adoption of the required changes

  • Collaborate with cross-functional project teams – e.g., from our Business, Design, Data Analytics and Tech colleagues at ZEISS Digital Partners


  • Excellent University degree, preferably in business, informatics or psychology

  • 3-4 years of experience, preferably in change consulting with focus on digital transformation or with change management on digital transformation projects in a B2B industry (i.e. implementation of Target Operating Models)

  • Track record of successfully leading projects using change methodology in digital transformation projects

  • Strong drive to demonstrate the impact of change management

  • Sound understanding of change management mechanics and tools for digital transformation, preferably in IT or engineering environments

  • Very strong communication skills and the empathy to productively collaborate with people from diverse backgrounds

  • Business fluent German and English language skills

The contract for this role is limited until 30.11.2025

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