Application Management Lead (f/m/d)

• 20 August 2026 • 100% • Indefinite period • Lindau Let's make the world a better place, one tasty bite at a time. Planted combines proprietary structuring and fermentation technologies to produce meat from plant proteins, focusing on a delicious taste, a meaty and juicy texture, while using only pure ingredients. Planted is setting a whole new standard in the plant-based meat category, making it a healthy, delicious, and sustainable choice for everyone. Truly better than animal meat. Your job in brief You transform business needs into a clear and prioritized roadmap for Planted's business applications - and you ensure its realization. You work and lead in a hands-on manner, staying close to the work and enabling the team and users to succeed, while our technical specialists provide the architectural depth. Your mission: You are responsible for the requirements process for our business applications, questioning, clarifying, and translating business needs into well-defined and agreed-upon scopes before initiatives progress. You continuously own and shape a prioritized application roadmap, aligning business goals with technical initiatives, ordering competing requests, and helping to decide when to develop in-house or adopt existing market solutions. You drive application initiatives from planning to implementation, ensuring delivery on time, within scope and budget, and at the expected quality while actively managing dependencies and risks. You act as a trusted partner for the company, translating complex subjects into clear decisions and enabling users to work with confidence and independence with our solutions. You coordinate internal teams and external partners across our application landscape, including Microsoft Dynamics 365, Salesforce, EDI and internal solutions supporting production and logistics. You stay close to the systems and the work, testing solutions, validating versions, and resolving issues if necessary while relying on our specialists for technical depth. You advocate for rigorous master data management, ensuring that data quality and governance support reliable behavior of systems, integrations, and business processes. You lead and mentor a small team of application specialists covering ERP, CRM and solution architecture, setting clear priorities and objectives, tracking meaningful OKRs and KPIs to measure team and system performance with the IT manager. You: Bring more than 5 years of experience in requirements engineering, business analysis and/or IT project management, ideally in an ERP, CRM or broader enterprise application environment. Demonstrate a solid track record of delivering complex and cross-functional application projects with internal teams and external partners, using structured project management approaches; Agile/Scrum experience and certifications such as IPMA, PMP or IREB are a plus. Understand enterprise application landscapes and how applications, APIs, databases, integrations, and master data work together, with experience in ERP, CRM, PLM or similar systems; knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce is a plus. Communicate confidently with technical and non-technical stakeholders in English (German is a significant asset), asking the right questions, challenging assumptions, and transforming complex requirements into clear decisions. Prioritize effectively between competing requests, keeping teams focused on what creates the most business value even when priorities and pressure change. Solve problems pragmatically and make informed decisions, using AI and modern tools in your daily work to improve quality, speed, and efficiency. Take responsibility with a hands-on mindset, learning complex subjects independently and ensuring follow-through from requirement to successful implementation. Bring a process-oriented and collaborative leader personality - and enjoy working in a dynamic and growth-oriented environment where innovation and change are part of our culture.