Project Manager

Fime; Lille; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Lille is seeking an experienced Project Manager to drive the development of innovative payment solutions. The role involves managing the entire project lifecycle and collaborating with teams to ensure project success. Ideal candidates will have over 8 years of experience in project management for complex embedded products, strong skills in communication, budgeting, and risk management. Fluency in French and English is essential. Join us to make a significant impact in the technology sector.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of proven project management experience in complex software/hardware products.
• Strong experience managing project scope, schedule, and budget.
• Fluency in English and French required.

Responsibilities

• Lead project lifecycle from architecture to validation.
• Define project scope and specifications with customers.
• Monitor and control project deliverables and risks.
• Serve as primary communication point between project team and customers.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Budget management

Risk management

Negotiation

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office (Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Job description

Overview

Fime enables its clients to create and launch trusted and secure solutions with consulting and testing services in payments, smart mobility, biometrics, and authentication. With 900+ experts around the world in over 20 locations, Fime is a multi-cultural global leading player its industry.

Inspired by our talented people, we are empowered to take ownership and innovate for the benefit of our clients. Employee growth is therefore our priority, and we demonstrate the appreciation of our people by providing them with opportunities to grow and new challenges both through internal promotion and international mobility.

At Fime, we are constantly evolving and moving forward together thanks to our values:

• Enable our customers.
• Support each other.

Your skills and your differences will be our greatest assets. Join Fime and make a difference!

Making innovation possible.

Making the world work.

Mission

Expand your expertise in project management to deliver embedded engineering and signal processing solutions with Fime’s innovative team! Are you an experienced project manager looking to deliver advanced technology solutions for our Customers? Join Fime’s cutting-edge development team and be part of the future of contactless payment solutions. At Fime, you’ll contribute to the implementation and delivery of advanced test solutions used by the R&D teams of the world’s leading manufacturers of NFC chips, mobile devices, and payment terminals—technologies you use every day. Ready for the challenge? Be a key player in driving and delivering innovation in secure, fast, and reliable payment solutions. Let’s build the future together!

ACTIVITIES

Reporting to the Test Suites Director. Integrated within the R&D hardware and embedded software team located at Fime Lille, your missions will focus on the following activities:

• Owns project leadership through complete product life cycle from architecture, design, test and validation, industrialization and lessons learned
• Lead cross-functional experts within a matrix environment, successfully driving delivery of projects for new products
• Define project scope and specifications (functional, technical, security) in cooperation with our customers
• Collaborate with the hardware and embedded software management team to implement, monitor and maintain project schedules and resources planning
• Coordinate and lead core team meetings, milestone reviews and project follow-up meetings with customers
• Monitor and control all project deliverables while continuing to identify and addressing project issues and risks
• Manage budget of the projects in cooperation with the Finance Control team
• Serve as primary point of communication between the Fime project team and customers
• Report project and delivery performance to executive stakeholders
• Participate actively in priority management reviews in cooperation with the product management and the Test Suites leadership team
• Actively listens, understands, and identifies needs to develop credibility, trust and commitment with our customers
• Schedule the manufacturing introduction of the new products in cooperation with the Operations team and qualified vendors
• Utilizes negotiation tactics to resolve conflicts to ensure success is achieved with minimal risk to project objectives.

JOB EXPERIENCE

• 8+ years of proven experience in project management for complex software/hardware embedded products development and delivery
• Strong experience with scope and schedule management for technology projects
• Experience of the payment (NFC, contactless and contact smartcard) and digital security industry.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Educational Background: Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, or a technical related discipline.
• Strong knowledge of product lifecycle and development
• Ability to handle project scope, budget, or team changes within a high priority project
• Excellent interpersonal skills to develop relationships amongst team members
• Expert written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to tailor presentations to executive management and customers
• Demonstrate leadership to elevate project team and stakeholders experience within technology projects
• Elevate project risk management best practices and lessons learned principles throughout the Fime organization
• Challenge software and hardware managers/experts within the project, holding them accountable for their deliverables.
• Good knowledge of electronics and embedded software technology
• Exposure to waterfall and Agile Scrum methodologies
• Be rigorous, with a strong capacity to learn
• Fluency in English and French
• Experienced in Microsoft Office (Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)