Senior Project Manager II

Join us at Orange Business!

We are a network and digital integrator that understands the entire value chain of the digital world freeing our customers to focus on the strategic initiatives that shape their business.

Every day you will collaborate with a team dedicated to providing consistent sustainable global solutions no matter where our customers operate. With over 30000 employees across Asia the Americas Africa and Europe we offer a dynamic environment to develop and perfect your skills in a field filled with exciting challenges and opportunities.

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex cross-functional initiatives from concept through delivery and operational handover. The successful candidate will apply project management practices across the full project life cycle adapt delivery approaches to suit the work and coordinate teams stakeholders suppliers and technology partners.

• Lead work across the full project life cycle:
  • Initiation: clarify the business need objectives expected benefits stakeholders assumptions constraints and high-level scope.
  • Planning: develop and maintain the integrated project management plan scope schedule budget resourcing quality communications procurement risk and stakeholder engagement plans.
  • Execution: coordinate delivery teams manage dependencies and suppliers facilitate decisions and support effective communication and collaboration.
  • Monitoring and controlling: track progress against baselines manage forecasts and performance measures assess risks and issues control changes and report status transparently.
  • Closing and transition: confirm acceptance complete handover to operations close contracts and documentation capture lessons learned and support benefits tracking.
• Define project governance decision rights escalation paths tolerances and reporting cadence.
• Establish and maintain scope schedule cost resource risk issue dependency assumption and change controls.
• Manage integrated plans and dependencies across business product technology data security and operations teams.
• Use appropriate project controls and reporting methods including milestone tracking forecasts dashboards and earned-value concepts where relevant.
• Identify delivery risks early; develop mitigation contingency and recovery plans.
• Manage changes through impact assessment approval communication and baseline updates.
• Ensure quality planning assurance acceptance criteria testing coordination and readiness for release.
• Coordinate procurement vendors contracts and third-party delivery commitments as required.
• Lead project reviews steering committee meetings decision forums and executive updates.
• Support benefits realization by aligning delivery outcomes with business objectives and tracking agreed measures after implementation.

• Select and tailor predictive iterative Agile or hybrid approaches to fit project context uncertainty governance and organizational needs.
• Apply Scrum practices including backlog refinement sprint planning daily coordination reviews retrospectives and increment delivery.
• Work effectively with Product Owners Scrum Masters engineering teams and business stakeholders while respecting their accountabilities.
• Support backlog visibility prioritization acceptance criteria release planning and delivery forecasting.
• Demonstrate working knowledge of SAFe concepts and terminology including Agile Release Trains PI Planning team and program backlogs dependencies and Inspect and Adapt events.
• Coordinate across teams and delivery trains escalating impediments and managing cross-team risks and dependencies.
• Help teams improve delivery flow transparency predictability and continuous learning.

• Demonstrate an understanding of cloud delivery considerations such as shared-responsibility models security privacy resilience cost management and migration or modernization dependencies.
• Coordinate cloud-related initiatives with architecture engineering security data and operations teams.
• Maintain relevant cloud knowledge or certifications such as:
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or an equivalent AWS certification.
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) or an equivalent Azure certification.
  • Google Cloud Digital Leader or an equivalent Google Cloud certification.
• Apply sound AI literacy to project planning and delivery including awareness of generative AI data quality model limitations evaluation human oversight privacy security and responsible-use considerations.
• Understand agentic AI at a practical level including AI agents goals tools permissions context monitoring escalation and human approval points.
• Assess AI use cases for suitability risks governance requirements value and operational readiness; do not treat autonomous outputs as inherently reliable.
• Identify opportunities to automate repeatable workflows and coordinate automation initiatives with relevant technical and business owners.
• Demonstrate familiarity with workflow orchestration platforms such as n8n including triggers workflows integrations error handling access controls and monitoring.
• Coordinate safe integration of AI agents and automations with enterprise systems including testing auditability fallback procedures and appropriate human-in-the-loop controls.

• Bachelors degree or equivalent practical experience in project management business technology or a related field.
• Significant experience managing complex cross-functional projects or programs including ownership of plans governance risks dependencies and stakeholder communications.
• PMP certification or equivalent demonstrable knowledge of PMI project management practices.
• Practical experience with Agile and Scrum delivery; knowledge of SAFe in a scaled environment.
• Experience working with cloud-based products platforms migrations or infrastructure initiatives.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled solutions automation or workflow orchestration tools such as n8n
• Strong written and verbal communication facilitation negotiation prioritization and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to translate business objectives into delivery plans and communicate complex information clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

You bring open mindedness ability to handle pressure leading with courage and empathy assertiveness and communicate effectively.