Description
Job Title: Project Manager
Job Type: Contract
Job Location: Riga, Latvia
Contract Rate: Market rate
Contract Length: 12 months with extensions
Our Client, one of the world's foremost IT Consultancies, is looking to recruit a Contract Project Manager to join their client in Riga, Latvia.
- Manage the development and 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.
- Give proposals for project strategies, planning, definition of tasks and deliverables, review of project deliverables, quality control, risk analysis and management, status reports, problem reporting and management systems, follow up and organisation.
- Guide the team in charge of project activities and review their deliverables.
- Participate in functional working groups and progress meetings.
- Estimate costs, timescales and resource requirements for the successful completion of each project to agreed terms of reference.
- Prepare and maintain project and quality plans and tracks activities against the plan, provide regular and accurate reports.
- Monitor costs, timescales and resources used, and act where these deviate from agreed tolerances.
- Ensure that delivered systems are implemented within these criteria.
- Manage the change control procedure gaining agreement for revisions to the project from project sponsors.
- Provide effective leadership for the project team ensuring that team members are motivated and constantly developing their skills and experience.
- Produce Weekly and ad-Hoc reports
The key skills required include:
- High command in English (C1-C2 level)
- Project Management Experience in Software Development Projects
- Project Management Certification (preferably PMP)
- Experience working in Multicultural environments
- Understanding of Software development lifecycle
- Good communication skills
- Good stakeholder management skills
- Team player
- Analytic skills
- Results oriented
- Diplomacy
- Nice to have: Experience Managing Agile Projects, IT Technical Background.
- Must speak Latvian
This is a great role for the right candidate, so if you meet all the criteria above, then APPLY TODAY!