Project Manager

Job Description

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 client's accountability for a series of projects to client's project management standards, specifically concerned with integrating internally developed components and services with external services.
• Ensure regular status communication updates to client's ICT management by accepting reporting standards at the deadlines requested.
• Maintain good working relationships with internal client's 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 client's 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• Ensure that the Gantt chart is always updated and reflects actual project status (no outdated tasks allowed).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 client's designated structures (Project Management Office) undertaking steps to correct deviations either through the financial procedures or through resource management processes.
• Interact and communicate with client's 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 client's initiatives on estimating costs, timescales and resource requirements for yearly demand cycle

Qualifications

Who you are : Mandatory :

Commercial-off-the-Shelf software deployments