Description
PEOPLE BUSINESS AG is a Swiss IT recruitment consultancy company and is based in Zurich.We provide highly qualified personnel for international companies, who want to increase their organizational effectiveness, competence, quality and speed. That is the main focus of People Business AG.
For our client, a globally active firm headquartered in Central Switzerland, we are looking to staff a IT Project Manager to start on 01 Aug, 2015
Job Description
* Manages project information to support project teams, management teams (e.g. Project Steering, Platform Steering, Life Cycle Teams, etc.) and decision making.
* Support of project setup (e.g. Project Charter, Scope Statements, Project Handbook, etc.), project Planning, project implementation, progress- & cost control, and project closing.
* Significant involvement in the drafting of the overall (product) concepts and (product) requirements
* Tactical coordination of timelines/budgets for all projects and functions within an area
* Manage execution of cross-functional plans and track of progress of activities
* Create and maintain integrated task-, resource- and budget plans
* Highlight and track dependencies across projects
* Proactively identify gaps, look ahead to potential bottlenecks or delays and challenge assumptions
* Risk management incl. critical path, risk assessment, scenario creation and analysis
* Proposes options to close gaps and get projects back on schedule
* Single point of control for project data (collect from functions/finance; owns version management and release of changes)
* Preparation of Project Status / Progress Reports
* Compile and communicate project reports
* Support for technical groups or other projects in an advisory function.
* Guide team processes, ensuring consistency, transparency and optimization.
* Implement / pull in best practices to project teams; foster continuous improvement by ensuring knowledge, experience exchange.
* Guides and manages preparation of project milestone reviews.
* Defines, measures and reports key performance indicators for the projects to enable teams and functions to measure and improve quality, efficiency and effectiveness.
* Handling of Project- and Management Meetings (set agenda, organize meetings, edit minutes).
* In the absence of the Development Project Leader, able to run project team meetings.
* Participation and partly leading relevant project meetings
* Set-up of additional meetings for project planning and controlling purposes
* Set-up and adapt relevant PMO processes and structure in alignment with relevant stakeholders
* Adapt relevant PM processes, methods and tools in alignment with corresponding stakeholders
Must Haves
* University Degree
* Minium of 5 years work experience
* Working in projects with exposure to typical project management tasks
* Involvement in data collection and data analysis
* Very good skills in MS Office
* Fluent in german and english
Nice to Haves
* A certification or training in project management is an asset
* MS-Project is an asset
Contract Type: Contract - w/m
Start Date: 01 Aug, 2015 or by agreement
Duration: 5 Months with extension
Workload: 100%
Workplace: Central Switzerland