Senior Strategic Delivery Lead: Complex Software Projects

Vincit; Tampere; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Vincit in Tampere seeks a Senior Project Manager to own demanding custom software projects, align customers and delivery teams, and ensure delivery is right, profitable and on schedule.

You’ll create clarity in challenging projects, establish decision rights, manage changes, and protect delivery teams while maintaining constructive customer relationships. This is a commercial role with forecasting, pricing, staffing and subcontracting considerations.

Qualifications

• Strong experience managing customer-facing software projects, preferably in custom software, digital services or a consulting environment.
• Demonstrated experience recovering a troubled project, re-establishing governance or taking control of a deteriorating delivery or commercial position.
• Experience owning project budgets, Estimate at Completion, revenue, delivery costs, scope, resourcing and forecasting.
• Practical understanding of customer rates, staffing mix.

Responsibilities

• Complex project delivery & profitability – Own demanding software projects, keeping scope, forecasts, timelines, risks and profitability under control.
• Project recovery – Assess deliveries under pressure, reconstruct the facts, establish a credible recovery plan and lead execution until control has been restored.
• Customer leadership – Work with fragmented customer organisations, align stakeholders, clarify decision authority and reset expectations when necessary.
• Commercial ownership & negotiation – Handle estimates, scope changes, additional work, customer responsibilities, contract discussions and project re-baselining.
• Portfolio control – Identify projects requiring intervention, challenge forecasts and help distinguish genuine escalation from normal delivery noise.
• Teams & collaboration – Protect delivery teams from unresolved stakeholder conflict, remove blockers and create a clear path for executable work.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Project delivery

Commercial acumen

Forecasting & budgeting

Recovery planning

Leadership

Negotiation

Communication

Tools

Project management tools

Job description

Vincit in Tampere seeks a Senior Project Manager to own demanding custom software projects, align customers and delivery teams, and ensure delivery is right, profitable and on schedule.

You’ll create clarity in challenging projects, establish decision rights, manage changes, and protect delivery teams while maintaining constructive customer relationships. This is a commercial role with forecasting, pricing, staffing and subcontracting considerations.