Our customer in the telecom market is currently looking for a medior Project Manager, someone with at least 5 years of experience in project management.

Role description:

• Responsible to manage and 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 through the use of the Customers methodology while ensuring continuous alignment between the various stakeholders (within impacted teams)

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 clear and realistic project plan that meets project objectives and clearly 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 timeframe

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 "at any time" fully aware of the project status.

People Management:

• To provide day-to-day management and coaching of one or more virtual teams.

Degree & Experience:

• Minimum 5 years proven experience as dedicated Project Manager in complex environments
• Proven successful management for multiple End-To-End major business/technical projects in operational environments

Technical skills:

• Familiar with Project Management methodologies PMI, Prince 2, Agile
• Familiar with Office Tools : Word, Excel, MS-Access, MS Project and Powerpoint

Attitudes/Behavior:

• Proven leadership skills to manage effectively virtual project teams & stakeholders
• 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
• Able to manage a certain range of projects, business or technical

Languages:

• English
• Dutch
• French