Bike Mobility Services (BMS) provides sustainable and affordable bike leasing services for companies and their employees. As part of mobility provider Pon.BIKE Business Group, BMS is a European market leader and is expanding into the US. The Project Manager will guide the IT uniformity and delivery to achieve BMS’ growth strategy.
About BMS
Sustainability, flexibility, and employee satisfaction are high on the agenda for employers worldwide. Along with urbanization and a push for electrification, today, bicycle usage is more relevant than ever. And Bike Mobility Services (BMS) is on a mission to get all employees in urbanized areas worldwide cycling to work. As a market leader in The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and Austria, BMS is now expanding into the US. Along with Lease a Bike, Movelo and BusinessBike, BMS has multiple platforms that facilitate bicycle leasing and sharing services for companies and their employees, as well as more than five thousand bike dealers.
BMS is part of the Pon.BIKE Business Group, which focuses on bike mobility services such as leasing bikes under various brands. These include Porsche, Audi, Gazelle, Kalkhoff, and Caterpillar. With the digitization of BMS’ business and their international expansion strategy, providing a seamless IT experience and delivery is essential to their continued success.
Job description: Project Manager
The new Project Manager (PM) will own the entire landscape of satellite systems that connect to the Lease a Bike platform. This role will drive European innovation and optimization efforts, as well as the US roll-out.
Lease a Bike’s current IT system integrates custom-built and acquired, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) platforms. The challenge for the new Project Manager will be to manage the COTS ‘satellite systems and work with vendors to ensure seamless integrations.
To introduce a more integrated platform and centralized set-up, this role will be responsible for its roadmap of all satellite systems into a new master platform, which will be the IT backbone for future growth of the entire organization. The PM will also be involved in various projects and programs within the BMS organization.
The Project Manager will be technically savvy, and have strong people skills and stakeholder management experience to achieve successful buy-in of BMS’ integration strategy. They will handle vendor relationships, and collaborate with the BMS group’s Head of IT, local country MDs and forty other stakeholders in local offices across various countries.
This role is an exciting opportunity that requires solid technical and stakeholder management skills and offers the opportunity to excel in a highly dynamic, flat culture within an international environment. The Project Manager can make their mark on the growth of BMS labels across Europe and into the US.
Interested?
BMS is working with Top of Minds to fill this vacancy.
To express your interest, please contact Hayke Tjemmes at hayke.tjemmes@topofminds.com .