Senior Project Manager

Spektrum; Brussel; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Hybrid work policy

Résumé du poste

Spektrum is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead NATO Power BI projects and BI delivery activities. You will coordinate with internal teams, NATO customers, and suppliers to ensure successful outcomes, while managing plans, risks and budgets.

You will oversee multidisciplinary teams, drive change control, and deliver governance papers and senior briefings, ensuring compliance with NATO and NCI Agency requirements.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of project management experience for large organizations.
• Senior project management experience in NATO/defense/government contexts preferred.
• Experience managing BI/Power BI delivery projects.
• Strong stakeholder management with multinational users.
• Ability to drive delivery to deadlines and manage multiple workstreams.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication.

Responsabilités

• Lead NATO Power BI projects and work packages.
• Develop and control project plans, milestones, and dependencies.
• Coordinate requirements with NATO stakeholders and users.
• Monitor performance against scope, schedule, cost, quality and risk baselines.
• Maintain risk, issue, action, and decision logs.
• Prepare status reports and governance submissions.
• Support budgeting, forecasting and resource planning.

Connaissances

Project management

Stakeholder management

English proficiency

Leadership

Team coordination

Strategic planning

Risk management

Formation

PRINCE2 Practitioner

PMP

MSP

Agile

Scrum

SAFe

Outils

Power BI

ServiceNow

SharePoint

Teams

Description du poste

Role Background

The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for leading and coordinating NATO Power BI project activities and related business intelligence delivery work. The incumbent will work under the direction of the Line Manager / Programme Manager and will coordinate with internal Agency teams, NATO customers, business stakeholders, data owners, technical teams, and suppliers to ensure effective delivery of agreed outcomes.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

Lead and coordinate assigned NATO Power BI projects, work packages and delivery activities.

• Develop, maintain and control project plans, schedules, milestones, deliverables and dependencies.
• Coordinate requirements, priorities and delivery activities with NATO stakeholders and user communities.
• Monitor project performance against agreed scope, schedule, cost, quality and risk baselines.
• Maintain risk, issue, action, assumption, dependency and decision logs.
• Prepare project status reports, dashboards, senior briefings, governance submissions and decision papers.
• Support financial planning, budget monitoring, forecasting and resource planning activities.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams including business users, data owners, Power BI developers, architects, service management and supplier resources.
• Support prioritisation, planning and delivery of Power BI dashboards, reports, datasets and related BI capabilities.
• Identify delivery risks, issues and dependencies, propose mitigation actions and escalate where appropriate.
• Chair or support project meetings, working groups and stakeholder engagement sessions.
• Track actions and decisions and ensure timely follow-up by responsible parties.
• Support change control, acceptance planning, transition to operations and project closure activities.
• Ensure project documentation is accurate, current and maintained in accordance with applicable Agency practices.
• Ensure activities are aligned with applicable NATO and NCI Agency governance, security and management requirements.
• Perform other project-related duties as may be required.

Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications

• Recent experience (at least 7 years) in Project management of Business Application and BI acquisition and / or development projects for a large organization.
• Significant experience in senior project management roles, preferably in NATO, defense, governmental, international organization or complex ICT/business applications environments.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects through the full project lifecycle, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, transition and closure.
• Experience leading business intelligence, analytics, reporting, data or Power BI related projects.
• Strong knowledge of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, issue, dependency, resource, stakeholder and change management.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams, including business users, data owners, technical teams, developers, architects, service management, finance, acquisition and suppliers.
• Experience preparing project plans, schedules, milestone plans, risk and issue registers, action logs, decision logs, progress reports, governance papers and senior-level briefings.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including engagement with senior stakeholders, customers, technical teams and multinational user communities.
• Ability to work independently, take initiative, structure complex activities and drive delivery against agreed deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Project management certification such as PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMP, MSP, Agile, Scrum, SAFe or equivalent.
• Ability to work effectively in a team-oriented, collaborative and multinational environment.

Desirable Skills, Experience and Certifications

• Previous experience with NATO or NCI Agency project, portfolio, service management or governance processes.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Power BI, business intelligence delivery, data analytics, reporting platforms, data governance or data visualization.
• Experience using tools such as ServiceNow, SharePoint, Teams or Power BI.
• Knowledge of ITIL, service transition or service management principles.

Working Location

• Brussels, BE

Working Policy

• Hybrid
• 50% onsite

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance