Project Manager

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BEA designs and manufactures sensing technologies that are used in automatic pedestrian and industrial door systems around the world. The company was founded in 1965 and is based in Liège, Belgium. Organised in Business Units (EU, USA, Asia), BEA also has facilities in Pittsburgh, Beijing and Tokyo. Nearly 700 enthusiastic professionals invest their energy and talent in BEA’s success.

As a Project Manager,you support and play an active role as member of the Project Management Office team in the company. You carry the implementation of the vision and strategy of the Organization and support continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

As a Project Manager your responsibilities are:

• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget.
• Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant internal stakeholders.
• Ensure resource availability in collaboration with the resource manager and the portfolio manager.
• For each project, develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress (phases, deliverables, milestones...).
• Support project launches (tailoring, advice, guidance, templates, tools, set-up).
• Establish a transparent and trusting relationship with the project team and the sponsor (Board member) to ensure that the project is in line with the company’s strategy.
• Implement active management of project risks. To that extend, attend as an observer to all technical/marketing meetings necessary.
• Track project performance with key performance indicators, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short and long-term goals.
• Develop, track, and maintain dependencies across projects.
• When a stage gate or a milestone is reached, ensure that all the proper information is delivered in advance of the steerco (Pre-read) so that the stakeholders make an informed decision.
• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification techniques.
• Ensure that change requests are properly escalated.
• Plan the project meetings and the steerco on agendas and delivers the MoM.
• Propose scenarios, challenge stakeholder until everyone is convinced a good decision is made.
• Support project closure (reviews, lessons learned…).

Your Qualities & Skills

• Master degree, preferably in Business / Industrial / Civil Engineer.
• Relevant experience of 5 years as a project manager.
• Project management qualification (PMP or PRINCE2 practitioner) is a plus.
• Proficiency in Excel, with knowledge of BI tools and Wrike a plus.
• Proficiency in a project tracking tool, ideally in D365.
• Full proficiency in English and French (written and oral).
• Effective Time Management and Priority Management skills as well as understanding of change management concepts.
• Technical and “on the field” appetite. Extremely curious.
• Able to render crystal clear complex things.
• Natural leadership. Demonstrate a strong influencing skill.
• Good communicator. Articulate individual who can relate to people at all levels of an organization.
• A “challenging the status quo” attitude. You should take nothing for granted. The 5 “whys” is one of his favorite tools.
• You accept to be challenged, in a positive way.
• Challenging is not judging: should have the ability to transform challenging questions into a brain storming session.
• Solution oriented, able to propose several scenarios.

Our Offer

• In addition to being part of a great team that loves collaboration, birthday cake and fun – we offer a competitive package including extra-legal benefits (car, phone, meal vouchers, eco-vouchers, collective bonus as well as individual bonus, 13th month, teleworking, health insurance and pension plan).
• On top of the Belgian statutory leave, we offer 14 weeks of Parental Leave for new borns or adoption, both for moms (full paid maternity leave), dads as well as same sex parents.
• BEA also takes care of its employees by offering them 5 days of company leave in addition to the 20 days of legal leave.
• Under the motto ‘Work hard – Play hard’, our Party Committee makes sure we have cool events and after work drinks to socialize.
• We offer training programs allowing you to discover the company, your colleagues and understand the products and their applications.
• Working at BEA means being part of a fast-growing technological company.
• BEA stands for a pleasant working environment in which we pay attention to a sensible work-life balance.

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