Ready to play a key role in project management in the automotive sector?
What you will do
As Project Management, you play a key role in the project management in the Automotive sector. You will help to build up an efficient project management organization, initiate and drive improvements, foster collaboration with internal and external stakeholders and make sure you create the right environment for your team to deliver the strategy. Your talent for fostering a strong cohesion and motivating the team will be crucial to driving success and achieving collective goals.
Key Responsibilities:
Project initiation process
You implement and operationalize the project initiation process in the Automotive Sector via a funnel process
Project portfolio resourcing
Together with the operational managers, you will monitor the performance and resources of your projects from a forward looking perspective for ongoing and new projects
Project portfolio execution
You sign off on deliverables
You ensure compliance to PM process and work instructions
You enable the projects to perform within the agreed triple constraint
You minimize revenue at risk
You proactively manage changes, drive the acceleration of your project activities when require, escalate showstoppers or issues within the organization and to the customer, and help provide solutions.
You seek constant improvements in both the quality and learning speed of your project. We will count on you to bring new ideas and help implementing them.
Key competencies:
Strategic & business thinking:
You are able to translate organizational goals into coordinated initiatives with a short, mid-term and long-term planning
You understand how the programs you are managing align with the business strategy and value creation
You understand financials (business cases, benefits realization, ROI)
Personal effectiveness & resilience:
You are able to make effective decisions under uncertainty and manage to pressure effectively.
Thanks to your flexible mindset, you adapt easily to changes course-correcting swiftly.
Delivery & execution capacity:
Thanks to your organizational skills, you manage multiple priorities, maintain structure and timely follow-up.
You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, showing in systems thinking, data-driven decision making, scenario planning & trade-off analysis, root-cause analysis and financial/operational analysis.
Your attention to detail ensures accuracy in dashboards, CRM, Clarity and financial reporting
Communication skills:
With your clear and professional written and verbal communication you manage stakeholder expectations in an effective way.
For internal stakeholders, your communication skills create a common understanding and aligned priorities
Collaboration & Stakeholder management:
You enjoy building strong and effective relationships within and across teams.
Your diplomatic skills ensure an effective collaboration with you, solving operational challenges and issues swiftly for all parties involved
What we do for you
We offer you the opportunity to join one of the world's premier research centers in nanotechnology at its headquarters in Leuven, Belgium. With your talent, passion and expertise, you'll become part of a team that makes the impossible possible. Together, we shape the technology that will determine the society of tomorrow.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and proud of our open, multicultural, and informal working environment with ample possibilities to take initiative and show responsibility. We commit to supporting and guiding you in this process; not only with words but also with tangible actions. Through imec.academy, 'our corporate university', we actively invest in your development to further your technical and personal growth.
We are aware that your valuable contribution makes imec a top player in its field. Your energy and commitment are therefore appreciated by means of a market appropriate salary with many fringe benefits.
Who you are
Are passionate about the Automotive industry and the chip technology to drive this ecosystem to the next level
Have experience in project management and/or proposal writing. This includes collection of information, logical ordering of ideas and milestones. Building and following up execution plans,
Have proven presentation and relation skills towards customers;
Demonstrate a clear sense of ownership with a strong drive for growing your program;
Like taking initiative, you are persuasive and assertive while keeping a constructive attitude;
Have excellent communication skills in English that you will use to interface with internal and external customers;
Enjoy working in a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural team;.