Infrastructure Project Manager Senior

Function

As Project Manager, your job is situated in the Enterprise Business Unit (EBU), which is in charge of the whole professional market, addressing large companies as well as small and medium sized enterprises. Within the PSM Unit (Customer Project and Service Management), you will be responsible for managing and coordinating complex client projects, including some international projects for which you might need to align with foreign affiliates and / or partners.
Your clients will belong to the One, Vertical ou Area segments. Project budgets can range from € 100.000 to € 2,5 million. Your client contacts are to be situated mostly at the level of Customer Project Manager and ICT-director.
The projects you will be working on, have a strategic character, are tailor-made, rely on new as well as on existing IT & Telco technologies / subjects, and have a medium to high risk level and visibility. Business complexity of each of these projects is high (eg. Large interdependency with other products / processes / services at the clients’ side).

Your Resposibilities

• You lead a project team of 5 – 25 members, composed of technicians, consultants and specialists and and assume transversal contacts with Account-, Customer Success Managers, Services Architects, and Pre-Sales Managers.
• You are in direct contact (face to face) with your client, with whom you will be working closely together.
• You develop, respect and implement detailed and complex project implementation plans and manage the related budgets.
• You are capable – in short term – to understand the organization, to gain insight in the business models and in the vision behind the different projects.
• You identify, manage, minimize and anticipate potential risks throughout the entire project realization process and you report the impact of issues and changes to the project steering committee. Being able to think out of the box will hereby be an asset.
• During the entire realization phase, you act as main point of contact for the client as well as for the subcontractors.
• You centralize all relevant information and report on the progress of the project, to both your client and your management.
• You guarantee the quality of the "deliverables" and make sure that the project planning is respected.
• You are responsible for the financial results of the project: you make and report regularly the financial plannings. You anticipate any deviation by taking the adequate actions.
• You can be led to offer support your Sales colleagues when in strategic discussions with the client, by explaining how you will lead the project, once sold.

Your Profile

• Ideally, you have a university degree or equivalent.
• You have a good knowledge of the products and services, or you have the right technical background and interest for
• You are trilingual French / Dutch / English.
• You have 6 years of relevant working experience of which at least 4 years in management of Telco and / or IT projects.
• You have knowledge of project methodologies (certificates are always considered as a plus) and you are highly organized.
• You have an analytical mindset and a systematical approach when it comes down to solving problems.
• You are very strong in the follow up of processes and actions.
• You are dynamic, flexible, and creative.
• You are a good communicator, capable of influencing others and of building and maintaining a network of contacts around you.
• You behave yourself, in your daily attitudes as the « boss » of the project, between its start and the delivery of composing elements.
• You don’t hesitate to show your leadership by practicing the ‘show by example’