Our Customer in the telecom business is currently looking for a Senior Project Manager to mainly support the customer into their transformation from Waterfall to Agile methodology.

What is the role?

• Responsible to manage very large and complex projects, 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) with many stakeholders in different business units.

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 time frame.

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 organization.

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, in a changing environment.

What are the current challenges?

• The customers methodology is in transformation from Waterfall to Agile methodology. In other words, we go through an ongoing transformation. We expect the contractor being able to work in a hybrid environment and to support the transformation.
• Even after Covid, 50% will remain remote working. The contractor is working within a large team with significant turn-over (back-log, high workload, high expectations, high visibility). We expect the contractor to take initiatives and find his way and to be able to manage pick of pressure.

Degree & Experience:

• Minimum 10 years proven experience as dedicated Project Manager in complex environments
• Experience in the TELCO industry is a plus

Technical skills:

• Experience with Agile way of working
• Familiar with Project Management methodologies PMI, Prince 2
• Familiar with Office Tools : Word, Excel, MS-Access, MS Project and Powerpoint
• Specific affinity with content in specific areas
• Experience with frequent interactions with top management

Attitudes/Behavior:

• Proven leadership skills to manage effectively virtual project teams & multiple stakeholders in senior management positions, both business and technical
• Dealing with uncertainty and able to show expected composure in a continuous changing environment
• Dealing with ambiguity and conflict management
• Assertiveness
• Interpersonal skills & Diplomacy
• Autonomy
• Initiative taker
• Result driven
• Solution oriented
• All-round, able to manage all types of projects, business and technical

Languages:

• English
• Dutch or French

What do we offer?

• Assignment of long duration and access to high diversity of projects and lot of opportunities,
• Access to an innovative and stimulating environment (always new technologies), stimulating, being part of transformation (waterfall to agile),
• Feel part of a project management team and part of the company.
• Be trained on the Customers methodology.