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Project Manager - French and Dutch Speaker - Freelance - Belgium
Robson Bale are looking for a French AND Dutch speaking Project Manager to come on board for an initial 6 month contract in Belgium.
6 months, local market rate
Candidates MUST speak French AND Dutch for this role.
Job Purpose:
- Responsible for the delivery of projects on time, in scope and on budget according to agreed project standards as well as industry best practice.
- Single point of contact
- Define, structure, plan, manage and report on assigned IT projects
- Responsible for liaison with the project steering board in relation to project delivery matters.
- Responsible for ensuring that all project resources are focused on delivery.
Main Accountabilities/Measured On:
- As responsible for the timely delivery of projects on budget, in scope, according to agreed project standards and best practice, s/he is measured on:
- Budget actuals
- Coverage Of requirements
- Project time table
- Findings of architectural standard compliance reviews
- Defect rates in various test phases
- Post implementation project review
Stakeholders:
- Software Delivery Management teams
- Business Partner
- Program Managers
- API Manager, Solution Analyst, Solution Specialist, Developers
- Portfolio and Project Steering Boards
- IT Production team members
- IT Strategy & Governance team members (Architecture, Finance, PMO, etc.)
- External partners for solution development
Main Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Plan, execute, and control the project to ensure the timely delivery of all deliverables on budget, on scope, according to agreed project standards and best practice.
- Participate into pre-project phases to suggest and estimate solutions that fit with purpose.
- Ensure the technical solution supports the business case requirements
- Lead and manage the project team(s) - internal and/or external resources - in order to meet project objectives and deliverables are achieved
- Agree the project's work packages, request resources to carry out the work package creation per project requirements.
- Manage the project by stage as defined by the PMO process and standards.
- Manage all risks and issues associated with the project escalating where required to assure project delivery
- Manage all changes in scope of the project per the PMO process, escalating to the project steering board when requirement changes have an impact on agreed delivery time and budget
- Validate the vendor KPIs and SLAs are clearly defined in the contracts before going to procurement
- Manage the vendor(s) to make certain they are performing to contractual agreements
- Ensure the measurement of benefit KPIs as part of the project closure and hands over the reporting responsibility and schedule to Portfolio Management.
- Implement quality improvement guidelines/plans relating to project management processes.
- Guarantee all work is compliant with internal and external audit requirements
Position Requirements
Personal Attributes:
- The ability to foster motivation within the project team to meet tight deadlines
- Have a strong impact and influence key decision makers
- Excellent problem-solving skills coupled with the ability to understand complex information and assess requirements
- Ability to translate business needs to technical audience
- A flexible, methodical and structured approach to projects
- The ability to work within budget limits
- Excellent time management skills
- A structured and logical approach; able to handle multiple tasks, think and plan ahead and build in contingencies.
- Ability to work independently and with multi-disciplinary teams
- Ability to build pro-active, co-operative working relationships with customers, peers and key stakeholders based on respect and team work
- Ability to act under strong pressure and to manage crisis situations efficiently
Professional & Leadership Experience:
- Experience in project management
- Proven track record and experience of successful management of cross-cultural teams
- Experience with supplier management and negotiation
- Recognized achievement in delivering to a strategic agenda
Education & Training:
- University degree preferably in a business or technical subject or any comparable education
- -PMI/Prince2 (or similar industry standard project management qualification desirable)
- Good knowledge of ITIL Service Management processes
6 months, local market rate
Candidates MUST speak French AND Dutch for this role.
Project Manager - French and Dutch Speaker - Freelance - Belgium