Project Management Officer

ONTOFORCE helps people transform data into knowledge, gather insights across all data sources and make an impact on your business. Our award-winning self-service knowledge discovery platform DISQOVER builds intelligent links between private, third-party, and public data sources, democratizing access to all your data. DISQOVER turns data into smart and actionable data.

Our customers are research-intensive organizations in the fields of life sciences, healthcare, and beyond. We work with profit and non-profit organizations, from pharmaceutical multinationals, small-to-medium biotech companies, academic institutes, hospitals, and patient organizations.

We’re looking for a talented and highly motivated Project Management Officer to join our team.

Location: Belgium

Department: Finance & Operations

Employment type: Full time

Minimum experience: 3 years

OUR WORKING ENVIRONMENT

The ONTOFORCE Fin & Ops team is the beating heart of Ontoforce. We work closely with the different departments within the company to support them in achieving their goals. Moreover, we challenge them and help the company in defeating the status quo.

At ONTOFORCE, we adhere to an agile work environment, giving every employee a high degree of freedom, room for initiative, opportunity for growth, and capacity to assume responsibility.

JOB DESCRIPTION

• You will report to the VP of Finance and Operations.
• As Project Management Officer, you will be responsible for managing and executing a number of business transformation projects. You will be the point of contact for managers, stakeholders and consultants for all organizational, administrative, contractual, and financial questions related to these projects.
• The business transformation projects will cover a broad range of IT, HR, Financial, Compliance and Legal projects.
• You play an essential role during the initial planning stages for any project. You will create structured schedules and project plans based on the project goals. During this planning process, you will develop and communicate clear and actionable deliverables or activities to be completed.
• You will guard the execution of the different projects from start to finish. You will be responsible for tracking deadlines, deliverables, resources, and timelines throughout the project process.
• You may be managing multiple projects for the organization at any given time, each with varying priority, timelines, and resource requirements. Given the broad scope of working with colleagues from different departments and across multiple projects, you are responsible for balancing projects and communicating priorities internally.
• Additionally, you will be responsible for managing and overseeing all the activities related to the compliance domains (particularly on IT security within the framework of our ISO 27001 certification).
• You will review the implemented policies regularly and proactively raise compliance requirements awareness.

YOUR PROFILE

You hold…

• A Master degree in Economics / Commercial Sciences or Commercial Engineering or equivalent.

You have…

• At least 3 years of working experience. Experience in a “big 4” environment is considered a plus.
• Experience in team coordination and management.
• Excellent communication skills in English as well as in Dutch.
• Profound organizational and collaboration skills.
• A good knowledge of MS Office and a flexible mindset to work with other IT tools.
• A positive, self-starter, can-do, results-driven attitude.
• A desire to work in a start-up / scale-up environment.
• Advanced autonomy and a sense of responsibility.
• A hands-on mentality.

People we love to work with are…

• Passionate, curious, development-focused, communicative, fast learners, team players, and quality-focused.