Information Technology Project Manager

Project Manager

Paris - UP to 70k

International Experience

API / CRM

YOUR TEAM

Plan, execute, and oversee a project from initiation to completion, ensuring it meets its goals, timeline, and budget, in respect of the project management best practices and the agile methodology.

Coordinate team members, resources, and tasks, while also mitigating risks and resolving issues to ensure successful project delivery.

Monitor progress and provide consolidated reporting on projects.

Assist in the structuring and implementation of project governance

Facilitate decision-making, processing of arbitrations and escalations, the management of risks and dependencies in support of operational teams.

YOUR ROLE

Project planning: Developing project plans, defining project objectives, scope, deliverables, and milestones. This involves creating project schedules, resource allocation, and estimating project costs with the help of impacted teams/tribes.

Project governance: Participates in establishing project governance structures, policies, and procedures and applies them. This includes defining project roles and responsibilities, ensuring compliance with project management standards, and providing guidance and oversight to project teams.

Resource/Team management: Building and leading the project team in collaboration with tribes Product Managers and other P&T managers, including assigning roles and responsibilities, providing guidance, and fostering a collaborative and motivated team environment. This may also involve managing contractors or third-party vendors.

Stakeholder management: Identifying and managing project stakeholders, in collaboration with tribes Product Managers and other P&T managers, as well as clients, end-users, executives, and other relevant parties. This entails understanding their expectations, maintaining effective communication, and addressing concerns or conflicts that may arise.

Risk management: Identifying potential risks and developing strategies to mitigate them. This involves conducting risk assessments, creating risk response plans, and continuously monitoring and managing risks throughout the project.

Financial management:

Managing project budgets, tracking expenditures, and ensuring financial resources are effectively utilized. This involves creating budget estimates, monitoring costs, approving expenses, and maintaining financial records.

Ensuring project budget is respected, with any deviation properly documented and additional budget requested

Quality management: Ensuring that project deliverables meet the required quality standards. This includes establishing quality control processes, conducting quality reviews, and implementing quality assurance measures throughout the project.

Communication and reporting: Facilitating effective communication between project team members, stakeholders, and executives. This includes preparing regular project status reports, conducting meetings, and ensuring relevant information is disseminated to all parties involved.

Project documentation:

Creates and maintains project documentation, such as project plans, requirements documents, meeting minutes, and project artifacts. This helps in tracking project progress, ensuring transparency, and providing a reference for future use.

Ensures project documentation is properly created and updated by the project team

Change management:

Manages changes to the project scope, schedule, and resources. This includes documenting change requests, assessing their impact, and coordinating the necessary actions to address the changes.

Maintains a tracker of changes, and communicating the changes at the right level

Project monitoring and control: Monitoring project progress against the established plan, tracking key performance indicators (KPIs), and taking corrective actions to ensure project goals are met. This includes managing changes, issues, and scope creep while maintaining project quality and timeline.

Procurement and vendor management: Coordinating and managing procurement activities related to the project, such as selecting vendors, negotiating contracts, and overseeing vendor performance.

Closure and evaluation: Managing project closure activities, including conducting project reviews, documenting lessons learned, and facilitating the transition of project deliverables to the operations or maintenance phase.

Continuous improvement: Identifying opportunities for process improvement, implementing best practices, and driving organizational learning from project experiences.

Qualifications

Technical skills

• Project Management
• Solid knowledge of Product and Project methodologies, notably Agile@scale.
• Compliance to methodologies, processes and standards
• Extensive experience in managing large, complex projects and programs
• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage multiple projects and large-scale programmes.
• Used to operating in different geographies and leading international teams supporting a decentralized, growing/evolving business.
• Expertise in managing relationships with IT suppliers, ensuring effective service delivery.
• Mastery in handling ambiguity and adapting to change.

• Overall IT knowledge Overall strong experience in IT, having worked not only in “traditional” IT with various “legacy” systems. Has worked with a variety of systems spanning new digital technologies.

• Planning
• Planning expert, with attention to quality and timeliness
• Strong ability to anticipate and make projections based on the current status.
• Prioritizes and reacts to the priorities of others

• Team/resource Management
• Experience managing people and being an operational leader
• Exceptional problem-solving and decision-making abilities.

• Finance/Budget Management Advanced financial skills

• Communication / Negotiation
• Advanced stakeholder management and negotiation skills.
• Communicates regularly and accurately including to C-level management. Adapts communication to the audience.
• Strong communication skills to convey complex topics to stakeholders of various backgrounds.

Personal skills

• Leadership
• Strong leadership and team management abilities, with the capability to inspire and motivate team members.
• Strong ability to listen, communicate, reconcile and manage conflict
• Strong level of leadership, commitment and responsibility
• Business acumen Strong and demonstrated business acumen, beyond technology-savviness.
• Servant leader
• Autonomy Demonstrates autonomy, commitment and responsibility, pro-activity
• Organisation Strong organizational skills including structuration, prioritization, time management, quality and resource allocation.
• Resistant to stress Strong ability to absorb pressure and build morale for the teams
• Flexibility / Adaptability
• Problem-Solving and Decision-Making: Solid analytical skills to address challenges, make informed decisions, and drive solutions.
• Adaptability: Solid flexibility to adapt to evolving technologies, changing business landscapes, and dynamic market conditions.