We are currently looking for a Project Manager to join our growing team in one of the biggest European organizations.
Tasks:
- Manage and take responsibility under clients accountability for a series of projects to clients project management standards specifically concerned with integrating internally developed components and services with external services.
- Ensure regular status communication updates to clients ICT management by accepting reporting standards at the deadlines requested.
- Maintain good working relationships with internal clients stakeholders and staff members and external parties.
- Facilitate the setting up of meetings; undertake meeting minutes creation and distribution.
- Support all project dimensions as required and follow applicable clients guidance as updated from time to time.
- Strengthen project governance implementation through coaching meetings when needed checkpoints and boards of assigned projects keeping stakeholders informed with up-to-date information at all times and facilitating appropriate decision making.
- Ensuring that all relevant project management documentation including a realistic plan and Gantt chart agreed among the project stakeholders is in place in the project management system at any given time including by participating directly in the production of project management deliverables.
- Ensure that the Gantt chart is always updated and reflects actual project status (no outdated tasks allowed).
- Manage the implementation of information systems to meet identified business needs acquiring and utilising the necessary resources and skills within agreed parameters of cost timescales and quality.
- Facilitate the production and approval of project deliverables at the specified quality level and in accordance with the project implementation plan.
- Facilitate tracking and monitoring project implementation in accordance with the scope budget and person days specified in the project implementation documentation.
- Proactively participate in identification and handling of dependencies issues and risks affecting the project.
- Proactively take responsibility and ownership of any risks and issues identified. Provide mitigation strategies and ensure that when required they are effectively escalated through the established client project governance (Stream leader ICT Management Steering Committees Portfolio Boards etc.).
- Support the monitoring of the budget and resources available to the project and support clients designated structures (Project Management Office) undertaking steps to correct deviations either through the financial procedures or through resource management processes.
- Interact and communicate with clients relevant internal stakeholders for the purpose of project implementation and monitoring including regular project progress reporting.
- Monitor the delivery of products and services by external suppliers in accordance with the contracts in place addressing and resolving issues and risks related to the relationship with those suppliers.
- Facilitate clients initiatives on estimating costs timescales and resource requirements for yearly demand cycle
Qualifications :
Who you are:
Mandatory:
- Bachelor plus minimum of 9 years of experience as an IT professional working in a medium-large enterprise ICT environment
- Fluency in English to at least B2/C1 level according to the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).
- At least 9 years of experience in Project Management
- Managed a minimum of 5 end-to-end projects involving:
- Commercial-off-the-Shelf software deployments
- Cloud deployment
- Incremental software delivery
- ICT infrastructure deployment
- Service integration with external parties
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in working in an international environment and/or EU institutions or bodies
- Minimum of 5 year of experience in working in a highly regulated public/government environment
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in standard project management tools such as MS Project
- 3 years of experience managing cloud (implementation) projects and delivering cloud services effectively ensuring they meet client requirements and align with business goals
- Good knowledge of planning and estimation techniques
- Good knowledge of MS office including PowerPoint timelines and schedule visuals.
- Certification: PM Certification such as PRINCE2 PMP or PM2 (intermediate level at least not Foundation)
- Good knowledge of structured approach to incremental software integration projects working with system integrations e.g. with an example of a service integration with a third party service provider. Enterprise service bus integration with internal and external services
- Good knowledge of Public IT procurement (EU) tendering processes and contract management throughout project lifecycles
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time