Associate Project Manager - Professional Services, EMEA
Why Choose Wind River?
In a world increasingly driven by software innovation, Wind River® is accelerating digital transformation of critical infrastructure by delivering the technology and expertise that enable the deployment of safe, secure, and reliable IoT systems.
Wind River’s impact spans critical infrastructure domains such as telecommunications, including 5G; industrial (automation, sustainable energy, robotics, mining), connected healthcare and medical devices, automotive (connected and self-driving vehicles), and aerospace & defense. We were recognized by VDC Research in July 2020 as #1 in Edge Compute OS Platforms, overtaking Microsoft as the overall commercial leader. Wind River regularly wins industry recognitions for excellence in IoT security, cloud and edge computing, as well as 8 consecutive years as a “Top Work Place”. If you’re passionate about amplifying your impact on the world, in a caring, respectful culture with a growth mindset, come join us and help lead the way into the future of the intelligent edge!
ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY
Wind River Professional Services has been helping clients implement great innovations, increase ROI and reduce time to market for more than 40 years. We have an excellent opportunity for an Associate Project Manager to work on cutting-edge development projects in Galati, Romania as part of our respected Professional Services team of highly skilled engineers.
The ideal candidate will have demonstrated skills in managing customer deliverables alongside people management skills of team oversight. The qualified candidate will be self-driven with experiences of formal project management methodologies – early in career candidate working towards a PMP, AMP or PRINCE2 qualification are encouraged to apply. Experiences with customers from the automotive, aerospace and defence, telecommunications and industrial vertical markets would be especially valuable.
ABOUT YOU
Responsibilities:
- Manage projects through the assigned technical staff, measured by completion of the design project within time and budget parameters to meet contract requirements
- Coordinate the definition of project specifics, deliverables, and estimate scope, duration, and level or effort of proposed work, in conjunction with the technical staff
- Responsible for the definition and development of the complete quote based on concise, well-defined descriptions of work to be performed, in conjunction with the account manager
- Work with the commercial sales Account Manager, Business Development and Technical Pre-Sales Teams on project structure, project feasibility, cost, schedule, deliverables, and requirements for Statement of Work and Proposal
- Conduct proposal presentations to customers in conjunction with the Sales Team
- Ensures compliance of development with internal or/and external Quality Standards
- Responsible for customer satisfaction including the evaluation of customer needs throughout the lifetime of a project, together with Sales field staff
- Responsible to meet internal and external milestones on delivery to customer
- Work independently on customer site managing day to day interactions
Requirements:
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business management, or other relevant degree is required.
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience as a project manager.
- Some experience with software development is required. This could have been gained from university coursework, prior professional experience or from opensource contributions.
- Strong expertise with MS Project and MS Excel is required.
- Prior experiences with formal project management methodologies is valuable: working under a CMMi or PRINCE2 framework would be helpful.
- Experiences using Salesforce.com (or another CRM) would be helpful
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and a track record of delivering software development projects on time and ability to interact and manage communication with Customers, Partners and internally.
- Self-motivated with a strong desire to learn
- Solid decision-making skills and judgment – can be depended upon to meet goals, foresee and avert problems