Professional Services Project Director

Aspen Technology; Reading; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Professional Services Project Director to lead technology projects for market-leading clients. This role demands strategic oversight and management of multiple software implementations, ensuring they are delivered on time and within budget while maintaining high customer satisfaction. Candidates should have over ten years of experience in IT project leadership and possess strong communication and analytical skills. Join a dynamic team where your influence and expertise will drive success and foster relationships across various business functions. This is an excellent opportunity to make a significant impact in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in IT initiatives with formal project leadership.
• Strong analysis and communication skills for project deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and manage multiple software implementation projects.
• Ensure high customer satisfaction and compliance with project requirements.

Skills

Project Management

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Team Building

Customer Focus

Problem Solving

Leadership

Education

Industry recognized Project Management certification

Job description

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The Role

Aspen Technology has an immediate need for a Professional Services Project Director in the Professional Services Project Management Office organization. Successful candidate will be responsible for the delivery of cutting-edge technology projects to market leading companies. This is an assignment within the organization with a great degree of influence and visibility with clients.

Your Impact

• Strategically oversees, monitors, and manages projects.
• Delivering multiple software implementation projects on budget and on schedule with high customer satisfaction.
• Execution of all phases of project management from the initial bid, project resourcing, project initiation, project execution and closeout.
• Functional supervision of contractors, consultants, and engineers assigned to the projects.
• Compliance with all reporting, project administration and documentation requirements.
• Communicate and develop relationships with clients.
• Ensures a high degree of customer satisfaction through world-class delivery practices.
• Work collaboratively with other internal teams: R&D, Customer Support, Product Management, Sales and Customer Success organizations.
• Recommend changes to a project that is ongoing if it appears it is not proceeding on schedule or is producing unsatisfactory results.

What You'll Need

• The successful candidate will have a minimum of ten (10) years’ experience with Information Technology initiatives, including formal project leadership experience.
• Experience in managing large scale projects impacting multiple business functions at multiple locations, including international.
• Strong analysis skills and ability to translate business requirements into a set of project deliverables and associated tasks.
• Strong communications skills (written and oral), with an ability to listen and to articulate project status and issues. Communication experience should include presentations at all organizational levels.
• Team building and management skills, to bring a diverse group together to deliver required business results.
• Leadership through influence, rather than exercising leadership via formal hierarchy.
• Technical understanding to enable effective delivery of technology projects including new systems implementations and upgrades to existing systems.
• Good working understanding of the project management lifecycle and the key knowledge areas of project management: integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communications, risk, procurement, stakeholder.
• Customer Focus - proven track record of customer satisfaction and delivery success and ability to establish and maintain appropriate relationships with business and IT stakeholders.
• Consulting/Problem Solving - ability to work in an advisory capacity to identify key problems, develop and evaluate alternative solutions and make recommendations.
• Industry recognized Project Management certification desirable.
• Must be able and willing to travel at least 25% of time, including some international travel.

Additional Requirements:

• Familiarity with upstream/offshore execution.
• Subcontractor management and coordination.
• Technical background in APC.
• Overseeing complex work streams and success criteria.
• Nice to have: French speaking.