Senior Project Manager - Sant Cugat, Spain - 5+ months contract

Barcelona  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Are you looking for an interesting and challenging project to work in Spain? Are you an experienced Project Manager?

If yes, this might be your next opportunity!!

NextLink Solution, a Swiss IT Consultancy Company that has been providing both IT services and IT staffing to major customers for the past 20 years, has an excellent opportunity that can take your career to the next level. We are looking for a Project Manager to work for one of our global pharmaceutical clients based in Spain for a 5 month contract(possible extension).

General Information:


  • Job title: Senior Project Manager
  • Job ID: 34742
  • Location: Sant Cugat, Spain
  • Duration: 5 months contract (possible extension)
  • Start date: 17th August 2020
  • Workload: 100% 

  • Remote: The role is remote until October 2020, after Oct you might be expected to be onsite. Onsite presence might change due to COVID situation.


Background:
As a Project Manager you will be accountable for cross-functional software development projects delivery to ensure successful planning, execution, monitoring, control and closure of the project tasks.
Your tasks will include planning, executing, monitoring, control and closure of the projects you are accountable for, in close coordination with the Product Owner(s) and the Support Service(s), also with different stakeholders (Business managers, Technical teams, sales and commercial people). The nature of projects to be managed are software products for Diabetes Management, in an international environment, working with teams in multiples time zones

Role and Responsibilities
•            Accountable for delivering software development projects and products using the appropriate agile project management methodology, learning & iterating frequently.
•            Work with the Product owner to support the roadmap definition for any given product
•            Removing obstacles or ‘blockers’ to progress helping the team becoming better at autonomously organizing their own work.
•            Protect the team and make sure the team collaborates, communicates and focuses on what is most important.
•            Coach team members and others, facilitating continuous improvement and apply the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques.
•            Proactively manage dependencies, overcome obstacles and get the best value against constraints.
•            Manage project delivery risks.
•            Accountable for release planning, maintaining up to date release plans and communication to stakeholders over the lifecycle
•            Able to anticipate issues, look for solutions along with the teams, respond quickly and manage risks and actions to solve it accordingly

Must haves:

•            5+ years’ experience in software development project and delivery management.
•            IT background
•            Strong planning skills
•            +3 years managing teams under agile framework.
•            Experience as Scrum Master and/or Product Owner.
•            English fluent
•            Good knowledge of Jira, Confluence, MS Project
•            Scrum Master or PMP certification
•            Degree in computer science, engineering or relevant field


Soft skills:
•            Demonstrated ability to coordinate working teams, including the ability to drive and facilitate cross-functional discussions and project reviews.
•            Strong deductive reasoning, critical thinking, problem-solving, and prioritization skills.
•            Ability to present complex solutions and methods to the general community.
•            Strong communication skills and listener, who understand the needs of the teams from empathy, able to build consensus on decisions and actions
•            Stakeholder management and communication, including business stakeholders
•            Able to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
•            Flexibility
•            Fast learner

Nice to have:
•            Quality Management Systems knowledge.
•            Previous experience in Medical Software environments.
•            Knowledge on Windchill System

If you are interested, please share your CV to or call asap to discuss further.

Start date
07.2020
From
Next Link Solutions
Published at
29.07.2020
Project ID:
1951631
Contract type
Freelance
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