Process Architect / Strategic Project Manager R&D (f/m/x)

Enabling smaller, more powerful, and more energy-efficient microchips
Work where tomorrow takes shape.
Around 80 percent of all microchips worldwide are manufactured using ZEISS technologies. As the core of every electronically controlled system, microchips have become indispensable in everyday life—from smartphones and smart homes to smart factories. ZEISS is a technology leader in semiconductor manufacturing equipment. With high-precision lithography optics, photomask systems, and process control solutions, ZEISS enables the production of ever smaller, more powerful, and more energy-efficient microchips—and is helping shape the era of micro- and nanoelectronics through its innovations.
The Group Projects, Processes & Tools is responsible for strategic projects within the Carl Zeiss SMT R&D organization. Our focus is on developing and implementing processes, methods, and tools across the entire product development process.
Your role
As Process Architect / Strategic Project Manager R&D, you will play an active role in advancing our R&D value creation system. You will analyze existing workflows in the R&D environment, develop forward-looking and practical target-state concepts, and anchor them sustainably within the organization.
Analyze, design, and optimize processes along development and product lifecycle management value streams
Develop and implement efficient, scalable, and practical target processes aligned with business requirements, the organization, methods, and IT systems
Define suitable KPIs as well as measurement and steering concepts to support sustainable process improvement
Plan, structure, and manage strategic improvement and transformation projects
Lead interdisciplinary teams from a functional perspective
Facilitate workshops and prepare audience-specific analyses, management presentations, and decision documents
In this role, you will have a lasting impact on how an innovative R&D organization works and deliver visible improvements in processes, collaboration, and product development.
Your profile
Successfully completed degree in a STEM field, engineering, industrial engineering, or a comparable qualification
Three to five years of experience in research and development, engineering, product development, or product lifecycle management
Experience in process management / process design as well as in applying common optimization and transformation methods, such as Lean, Agile, or ADKAR
Basic project management experience and a structured, self-directed way of working
Strong communication and facilitation skills, with excellent written and spoken German and English
Confident presence when interacting with different stakeholder groups
You are an especially strong fit for this role if you also bring the following qualifications:
Consulting experience in process and organizational design with a focus on R&D, for example in management consulting or internal consulting
Experience in digitizing and automating processes, ideally using common tools such as SAP Signavio, ServiceNow, Power Automate, Power BI, etc.
Strong strategic, analytical, and conceptual skills
We look forward to receiving your application!
Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:
Rebecca Wöhrle