Senior Project Manager
In this role
As a Senior Project manager you will be delivering great achievements; as such, we are looking for someone who is able to take ownership and drive the team to achieving a great result.
You are a passionate, pragmatic, project manager with a proven track record, able to lead sophisticated development and integration projects all over the project lifecycle. You like to be in a key position to elaborate exciting and modern IT solutions at the interface between the customer and our interdisciplinary teams.
- You’ll be responsible for our customer projects starting with planning up to acceptance
- You’ll prepare offers and client presentations and support pre-sales activities
- You’ll be responsible for meeting deadlines, budgets and resource planning, and also of monitoring and reporting the progress
- You’ll apply and evolve on modern and effective project methods (agile and classic project methodologies)
- You’ll ensure the compliance with internal quality guidelines
- You’ll take over the leadership of experienced business analysts, architects and software engineers within projects
- You’ll actively collaborate within the projects to ensure the project success (requirements engineering, architecture and realization)
What we offer
- Get the opportunity to expand your knowledge and experience by working on a broad range of exciting projects, products, customers and technologies
- A dynamic work and collaborative environment with a highly motivated multi-cultural and international sites team
- Attractive prospects for career path & Personal development through training and coaching
- The chance to make a difference in peoples’ life by building innovative solutions
- Various internal coding events (Hackathon, Brownbags), see our technical blog
- Monthly After-Works organized per locations
- Good work-life balance (2 days per week from home)
- Attractive pension fund with 3 types of employees’ contributions
- Premium and worldwide coverage with Zurich insurance fully supported by the company
- 1/2 SBB fare abonnement
- Mobile and internet discount program
About your profile
For this vacancy we are looking for a candidate with a proven track record of multiple years’ experience working at a consulting company at the interface between business and IT. The ideal profile is as below:
- University degree in the Business, Management or Computer Science domain – or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years experience in managing agile software development projects with various technologies, consultancy is a plus
- Capacity to formalize and document processes in forms of workflows, diagrams both detailed and at SteerCo level
- Experience with the definition of business requirement
- Strong communication and partner skills allowing you to optimally collaborate, negotiate and build up enduring relationships on all hierarchical levels, with complex stakeholder management
- Goal oriented with teammate personality who enjoys collaborating with colleagues in a spirit of true teamwork
- A proven track record in project management (also PMO), change management, systems development, process re-engineering (incl. target operating models), process mapping, automation of workflows is desired
- Excellent skills in putting together a value proposition and creating an offer
- Broad know-how in IT solutions of various types (front-end, back-end, data-oriented solutions, etc.)
- Business proficiency in English and French. German would be a plus
- Interest in strategic consulting (Data or IT Governance, Digital Strategy, IT Management, Audit and Assessments)
- As a plus:
- one of the following certifications: SRUM, PRINCE2, PMP, HERMES, SAFE, TOGAF
- Work experience with an extensive data background as a delivery/ project manager. A deep understanding and hands-on experience with at least one of the following: data strategy, data quality, business intelligence (BI), data governance, management information (MI), analytics (embedded), visualization, and reporting
You meet all requirements perfectly? You are responsible, ambitious and enthusiastic about IT topics and agile customer orientation? Then you are the ideal candidate and we would be happy to meet you personally.
If you are INTERESTED in this position, please send us your complete application documents