This mission is for a leading mobile telecom operator in Belgium.
Role description:
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Responsible to manage large 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 operator methodology while ensuring continuous alignment between the various stakeholders (within impacted teams)
Required Responsibilities:
Scope management:
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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:
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To define together with all involved parties the needed project budget.- To ensure you get this budget approved by all necessary "governance bodies".
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To identify timely budget variances and to challenge them, avoiding your projects exceeds their budget.
Time Management:
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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 timeframe
Risk Management:
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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 organisation.
Reporting and Communication:
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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.
Degree & Experience:
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Minimum 10 years proven experience as dedicated Project Manager in complex environments
- Proven successful management for multiple End-To-End major business/technical projects involving IT development
Technical skills:
IMPORTANT:
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Technical background: Knowledge of the mobile site quality acceptance, knowledge of how sites are built, to be able to read complex technical documents
- Familiar with Project Management methodologies PMI, Prince 2, Agile
- Familiar with Office Tools : Word, Excel, MS-Access, MS Project and Powerpoint
Attitudes/Behaviour:
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Proven leadership skills to manage effectively virtual project teams & stakeholders
- Dealing with uncertainty and able to show expected composure in a continuous changing environment
- Dealing with ambiguity and conflict management
- Autonomy
- Initiative taker
- Result driven
- Solution oriented
- All-round, able to manage all types of projects, business and technical
Languages:
English or French
Location:
Belgium
