IT Project Manager / Epic Delivery Owner – Banking Client – Brussels
Rate: €700 - €800 per day
Duration: 1 year + extension
Hybrid Working – 8 days onsite in Brussels office
Job family:
* Manages all aspects of a diverse IT project or multiple IT projects, typically involving multiple disciplines in the IT function
* Utilizes expertise and leadership skills to direct staff and to resolve issues to ensure project goals and requirements are met
General Description:
* Defines a project and coordinates its implementation in line with organizational project management standards, policies, and principles. Responsible for meeting project objectives within quality, time, and budget targets, and for managing associated risks.
* Typically requires specialist project management experience, relevant qualifications in industry-standard project management techniques, as well as an understanding of the project technical and business issues.
Role:
* Leads the development of the project proposal or plan to determine timeframe, budget ,procedures for accomplishing the project, staffing requirements, and assignment of available resources to various phases of the project.
* Defines the overall project governance and organisation, the deliverable scope and the associated responsibilities.
* Oversees the business, technical, organizational, management and financial aspects of the project.
* Regularly reports project progress at all levels, including senior management and/or the sponsor/client.
* Challenges, and if required may negotiates changes in project specification or scope with the project sponsor/client.
* Coordinates a team of specialists to implement project tasks.
* Acts as the interface and facilitator between the project sponsor/customer and the various IT services involved in the project
* May negotiate and manage contracts with external suppliers with the support of specialized teams (e.g. Corporate Procurement)
* May analyse requirements with the project sponsor/customer and with the support of the Enterprise Architect / Application Architects in order to evaluate the project feasibility within the scope of a pre-defined strategy.
* Leads projects for which the unusual size, timeframe or complexity requires the ability to deal with changes and instability in the project management processes, strategy and frameworks
* Is able to convincingly present the project and win buy-in from the sponsor/client, possibly using the support of business or technical subject matter experts
* Regularly Leads improvement initiatives.
* Manages relationships with external suppliers at the project level.
* Performance and achievements are subject to periodic review against targets.
* Requires a good of business and technical understanding, gained over several infrastructure and application development projects, and the interpersonal skills to influence decisions taken with the project sponsor/client
Please do send across to me the most up-to-date CV to eobiechefu@welovesalt.com