About The Company
GROPYUS is a technology-based construction company focused on building multi-story residential buildings. Thanks to its prefabricated building system with a wide range of design options, automated offsite construction, and fully digitalized processes, the company is able to create resilient timber housing quickly and cost-effectively. GROPYUS is using scalable construction and manufacturing solutions to tap into a future market, strengthen Europe’s innovation capacity, and play a substantial role in improving sustainability. The company delivers its multi-family houses as a complete and turnkey solution. The combination of technology, construction, robotics, and manufacturing expertise means buildings can be created in a fully digitalized end-to-end process. The building system is based on versatile wall and slab elements, making it easier to optimize land use, customize plans, and build fast with both off-site construction and on-site assembly. This system is complemented by the Building Operating System–developed in-house.
About the Role:
In this role, you take lead responsibility for project-related controlling and commercial steering of complex construction projects. You set standards, provide decision-ready insights for management, and actively shape processes, tools, and ways of working. The focus is on ownership, direction, and operational proximity — with a permanent base in Berlin and regular presence on construction sites.
- Strategic planning & forecasting coordination: End-to-end responsibility for the preparation, quality assurance, and consolidation of planning documents, budgets, and forecasts across multiple projects
- Project controlling with lead accountability: Steering of project KPIs including target/actual comparisons, risk and opportunity assessments, and active involvement throughout all project phases
- Reporting & performance management: Ownership of structure, quality, and development of management reports on performance, order backlog, and financial results, including ad-hoc analyses
- Interface & steering function: Close collaboration with project management, department leadership, executive management, and central controlling as a commercial sparring partner
- Tool-driven analyses & systems landscape: Further development of controlling and reporting systems, leading role in BI topics and process optimization initiatives
- Commercial leadership in the bidding phase: Responsibility for commercial evaluations, approval processes, cost reviews, and financial decision-making documents
- Knowledge development & functional guidance: Delivery of trainings, structured knowledge transfer on group-wide standards, and potential functional leadership of a small team
- Location & project proximity: Berlin-based position with regular travel to construction sites and project locations
About You:
- Degree in business administration, civil engineering, industrial engineering, or a comparable qualification
- Several years of solid experience in project controlling, ideally within construction or project-based environments
- Strong proficiency in MS Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
- High system and process competence with strong IT affinity (ERP systems, Excel, BI tools)
- Experience with costing and controlling software (e.g. iTWO, SAP, BI tools)
- Very good written and spoken German and English skills
- Strong analytical mindset, commercial thinking, and a structured, independent way of working
- People leadership is a plus, along with strong communication skills, resilience, and confidence managing multiple parallel projects
What we offer
- An unlimited contract with 30 vacation days.
- Flexible, hybrid work: You can work from home or come into the office on the schedule that works best for you. Feel like traveling and working from another location? No problem. Tune into meetings and work from abroad for up to 40 days per year. In addition, flex hours allow you to prioritize important moments in your day.
- Attractive perks and benefits: We offer a company pension scheme, language courses (English/German), and employee discounts with selected sustainable brands. Furthermore, our external partners in mental health support you in strengthening your mental health through anonymous private/group sessions.
- Virtual Shares Program: Participate in the success of GROPYUS through our Virtual Share Program.
- Ownership: You can truly make your mark with your work and contributions – on all our organizational levels. Find your solutions, drive and test them.
- The chance to be part of something big: Our mission is to rethink an entire industry. Join us in reinventing construction and fostering sustainable, affordable living.
- A diverse and enriching work environment: Become a valued member of a wonderfully diverse team of individuals from over 50 countries. At GROPYUS we value inclusion above all, ensuring that everyone feels they belong – no matter their background. In this way, our differences become strengths that help us grow as a team.
