Project Manager

We are currently looking for a Project Manager to join our growing team in one of the biggest International organizations.

Tasks:

• Develop and manage all aspects of project and engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, change, risks, and issues.
• Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources.
• Chair the project management team meetings.
• Procure and secure adequate resources to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes.
• Monitor, track, and control outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies, and critical path deliverables.
• Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks and issues, and communicating across leadership.
• Engage with external stakeholders and internal business sponsors and focal points across the Organization globally and providing them with updates.
• Demonstrate a functional acumen to support how solutions will address the Organization’s project goals while maintaining alignment with industry best practices.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations to various audiences, including project team, sponsors, and key stakeholders. Deliver appropriate and effective executive level communication.
• Manage ongoing quality control and participate in quality issue resolution. Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities.

Who you are:

Mandatory:

• First-level university degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Marketing, Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline.
• At least five (5) years of recent professional experience in program / project planning, management and successful delivery of complex cross functional or interdependent projects, some of which should be at the global or international level.
• Professional qualification or foundation certification in project management methodologies such as PMI, Prince 2, Agile SCRUM.
• Proven skills in the areas of project management, change management, building trust, planning, organizing, resourcing with careful attention to detail to continuously monitor progress actions and initiatives.
• Ability to adapt and manage deliverables and resources in a climate of change and to think and act quickly, sometimes under pressure yet remain effective.
• Ability to effectively collaborate with teams in an international, multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary environment; separated by geographical locations and working under different time-zones.
• Ability to promote best practices, advise on improvements, independently perform research, and apply information from a broad range of sources.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence, negotiate, advocate, motivate, resolve conflict, and adapt relevant leadership styles to a variety of situations.
• Excellent communication (both oral and written), problem solving and analytical skills.
• Strong supervisory, organizational, management, and consultancy skills.
• Proactive, flexible, resourceful and able to work independently with limited supervision.
• Experience with Office 365 Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint…)
• Experience with MS SharePoint, MS Visio, MS Project
• Experience in collaborating with teams (physically or virtually) in an international and multi-cultural environment whilst producing results
• Proven experience in writing project plans and project-related documentation.
• Experience in facilitating workshops, presentations to senior stake holders and managing change in a federated (decentralized) organization
• Very good communication skills in English Level B2/C1

Desirable

• Extensive experience in working across multiple time zones without the need for face-to-face meetings.
• Experience with UN or other international or multinational organizations.
• Experience with professional business services such as consulting.
• Experience in facilitating workshops, presentations to senior stakeholders, and managing change in a federated (decentralized) organization.