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Project Manager Senior - SII Belgium

Brussels BE
2021-12-20
2024-03-28

Our client in the Telecom sector is looking for a Senior Project Manager with experience in Data, more precisely Cloud Management and/or Data Analytics.

- Responsible to manage large and complex projects, to steer the virtual teams throughout the different departments.
- Responsible to ensure that the business or technical projects are delivered on -time, on-scope and on-budget while ensuring continuous alignment between the various stakeholders.

Required Responsibilities:

Scope management:
- To ensure that the needs of the internal clients are taken into account and that the business/technical solutions are delivered in line with the agreed requirements. To challenge requested scope changes and this during the duration of the project.

Cost management:
- To define together with all involved parties the needed project budget.
- To ensure you get this budget approved by all necessary "governance bodies".
- To identify timely budget variances and to challenge them avoiding your projects exceeds their budget.

Time Management
- To define in cooperation with your project team a project plan that meets project objectives and identifies the expected results and the associated resources.
- To commitment from the different departments on the expected results.
- To challenge the various parties involved ensuring delivery within agreed time frame.

Risk Management:
- To avoid problems by identifying pro-active risks/issues and initiating timely the appropriate actions.
- To escalate timely project problems to line management and /or project stakeholders ensuring they can still take appropriate action
within their organisation.

Reporting and Communication:
- To liaise on a continuous basis with management from the impacted departments, avoiding surprises by ensuring they are fully aware of the project status.

People Management:
- To provide day-to-day management and coaching of one or more virtual teams.
 

Vereisten

Degree & Experience:

- Minimum 10 years proven experience as dedicated Project Manager in complex environments, of which at least 5 years in data or cloud environment.
- Proven successful management for multiple End-To-End major business/technical projects involving IT development.

Technical skills:

- Experience with the Agile project methodology.
- Understand Cloud road maps & Cloud architecture principles.
- Affinity with content in specific data areas.
- Experience with frequent interactions with top management.
- Familiar with Office Tools : Word, Excel, MS-Access, MS Project and Powerpoint.

Attitudes/Behavior:

- Proven leadership skills to manage effectively virtual project teams & multiple stakeholders in senior management positions, both
business and technical.
- Dealing with uncertainty and able to show expected composure in a continuous changing environment.
- Dealing with ambiguity and conflict management.
- Autonomy
- Initiative taker
- Result driven
- Solution oriented
- All-round, able to manage all types of projects, business and technical.

Languages:

- English
- Dutch
- French