Key skills: Strong project management and IT methodologies (ITIL) along with SAP MES experience
Job Description:
• Lead assigned projects ensuring delivery on-time, within scope and within budget
• Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan with resource capacity and actuals analysis
• Liaise with resource managers to ensure resources are available to support the timelines within the project schedule
• Utilize risk management strategies to actively manage project risks that may impact project cost, quality, scope or schedule
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation • Review and approve time cards associated with your project
• Create business case financial models
• Forecast, monitor and report on project financials, and maintain financials in project management tools
• Manage change requests by assessing impact to scope, schedule and cost; and communicate with key stakeholders
• Liaise with the supplier management groups as needed on supplier engagement, quality of services, experience and cost
• Partner with the project team to ensure compliance with regulations, policies, standards, procedures, and associated documentation including but not limited to computer systems validation, SOX, and PM standards
• Continually update relevant business stakeholders of project status and periodically publish project status reports
• Represent the project in various project governance and inter-departmental forums
• Ensure all projects meet success parameters and ROI targets stated in business case
• Evaluate trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value
• Partner with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria and deliver project to meet those metrics and criteria
• Ensure all projects adhere to project methodology compliance standards set by the company
• Assist, share learning, and mentor others within the PMO regarding standards, organizational understanding, and relationship building to promote the successful delivery of projects
Expected Core Competencies:
Experience with implementing SAP and MES.
Specific Needs:
Preferred 2nd Language = French
Preferred Languages:
English #1
Qualifications & Experience:
• Minimum 7 years of professional experience is required
• Proven record of planning and delivering complex projects
• Experience managing remote project teams desired
• Experience and proficiency in Microsoft Project preferred
• Demonstrated experience in full project management lifecycle for software/maintenance/ development/ implementation projects and IT methodologies (ITIL)
• Experience with projects in multiple technologies and functions; demonstrated experience managing customer relationships
Soft Skills:
• Good Communication Skills • Leadership Skills