This mission is for a leading mobile telecom operator in Belgium. 

Role description:

• Responsible to manage large projects, to steer the virtual teams throughout the different departments
•  Responsible to ensure that the business or technical projects are delivered on -time, on-scope and on-budget through the use of the operator methodology while ensuring continuous alignment between the various stakeholders (within impacted teams)

Required Responsibilities:

Scope management:

• To ensure that the needs of the internal clients are taken into account and that the business/technical solutions are delivered in line with the agreed requirements. To challenge requested scope changes and this during the duration of the project.

Cost management:

• To define together with all involved parties the needed project budget.- To ensure you get this budget approved by all necessary "governance bodies".

•  To identify timely budget variances and to challenge them, avoiding your projects exceeds their budget.

Time Management:

• To define in cooperation with your project team a clear and realistic project plan that meets project objectives and clearly identifies the expected results and the associated resources.
• To commitment from the different departments on the expected results.
• To challenge the various parties involved ensuring delivery within agreed timeframe

Risk Management:

•  To avoid problems by identifying pro-active risks/issues and initiating timely the appropriate actions.
•  To escalate timely project problems to line management and /or project stakeholders ensuring they can still take appropriate action within their organisation.

Reporting and Communication:

•  To liaise on a continuous basis with management from the impacted departments avoiding surprises by ensuring they are "at any time" fully aware of the project status.People Management:
•  To provide day-to-day management and coaching of one or more virtual teams.

Degree & Experience:

• Minimum 10 years proven experience as dedicated Project Manager in complex environments
• Proven successful management for multiple End-To-End major business/technical projects involving IT development

Technical skills:

IMPORTANT: 

• Technical background: Knowledge of the mobile site quality acceptance, knowledge of how sites are built, to be able to read complex technical documents
• Familiar with Project Management methodologies PMI, Prince 2, Agile
• Familiar with Office Tools : Word, Excel, MS-Access, MS Project and Powerpoint

Attitudes/Behaviour:

• Proven leadership skills to manage effectively virtual project teams & stakeholders
• Dealing with uncertainty and able to show expected composure in a continuous changing environment
•  Dealing with ambiguity and conflict management
•  Autonomy
• Initiative taker
• Result driven
• Solution oriented
• All-round, able to manage all types of projects, business and technical

Languages:

English or French

Location:

Belgium