Project manager

For one of our main clients based in Brussels - a European Institution, we are looking for an IT Project Manager to for future incoming requests.

• You are accustomed to working in large-scale environments within a project management capacity, preferably in multicultural public sector environments.
• Running projects on a day-to-day basis and producing the required products and results, to the required standards of quality and within the specified constraints of time and costs;
• Direct and motivate project teams as well as monitor their performance and activity; prioritise workloads/timelines for teams and budgets;
• Plan and monitor projects, prepare required project plans, manage risks, including the development of contingency plans, issues and dependency logs; 
• Be responsible for change control and any required configuration management;
• Identify opportunities for team development, conduct team meetings and problem resolution;
• Perform auditing and quality checking to produce any necessary reports, like quality plans;
• Manage projects through the entire software development life-cycle (from the formulation of its business case to its final rollout to production);
• Communicate with clients at several layers, being the liaison between IT and Business users to identify the business needs;
• Be able to translate the business requirements into actionable work plans;
• Monitor operational aspects of the data integration process and interdependencies with other systems and lay out any release and communications plan;
• Reporting on SLI’s under SLA agreements.

Requirements:

• University degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, MBA or related field;
• Minimum 5 years in IT of which minimum 5 years hands-on experience in project management’
• Minimum 2 years of experience working in project(s) following some of the following practices: Agile/SCRUM/RUP/Disciplined Agile practices;
• Certification in any project management area is a requirement (like PMP, Prince2 etc.);
• Excellent command of English both written and spoken (C1);
• Proven experience with project management and team collaboration software (e.g. Microsoft Project, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft SharePoint Server, Atlassian JIRA, Atlassian, Confluence etc.)
• Excellent writing skills – the individual will be required to produce professional reports;
• Ability to converse with people of differing technical expertise – a great balance of technical, commercial and people skills is required; ability to manage the client’s expectations;
• Understanding of the various stages of the testing and quality process;
• Ability to organize and prioritize tasks as well as plan and delegate responsibilities;
• Excellent communicational and organizational skills as well as sound judgement, and the ability to discern key issues and deal with them effectively;
• Ability to take initiatives, integrate in a team and monitor results and risks of IT projects;