Project Manager

Content Guru Limited; Den Haag; Hybrid; EUR 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Content Guru is looking for a skilled Project Manager to join our Netherlands team, overseeing multiple client projects from initiation through delivery and ensuring a fast-paced, cost-conscious, customer-oriented delivery experience that drives satisfaction. The role is based at our Den Haag office with a hybrid schedule (3–4 days in-office).

A Bachelor’s degree and a proven PM track record in technology/finance are required, along with fluent Dutch and English for diverse stakeholder

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject.
• Good experience in project management or project delivery to external clients in technology/finance.
• Proven ability to effectively manage projects from start to finish and work to a deadline.
• Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
• Proven ability to solve problems creatively.
• The ability to motivate others to deliver.
• Fluent / Native level Dutch and English.
• Proof of eligibility to work in the Netherlands or valid work visa if applicable.

Responsibilities

• Initiate projects in accordance with any project management methodology and establish appropriate project documentation and control.
• Ensure projects are delivered within time, cost and quality tolerances.
• Maintain high-quality project documentation and deliverables.
• Establish a test plan according to customer requirements.
• Manage virtual project teams as required.
• Establish a single point of contact for the customer and set escalation paths.
• Manage customer communications to maintain high customer satisfaction across virtual teams.
• Contribute to bids and tenders and provide PM input to presales activities.
• Manage project costs, ensure sales margins, and track/recover costs where possible.

Skills

Project management

Client delivery

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

Problem solving

Fluent Dutch & English

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant subject

Job description

Content Guru is a leading provider of cloud communications solutions. We help businesses across the globe to enhance their customer engagement and experience.

From our omni-channel cloud contact center solution to our bespoke integration systems, we use cutting-edge technology to transform communications and make mass personalization a reality. This includes our development of AI and propensity modelling to create the seamless end-to-end customer journeys that inspire loyalty and power the success of organizations worldwide.

What we are looking for...

Due to our continued global expansion, we are looking for a successful and established Project Manager to join our exceptional team in the Netherlands. As an experienced Project Manager you will be adept at managing, overseeing and delivering multiple projects.

Working closely with our sales team, you will be responsible for managing client relationships and implementing a fast-paced, cost effective and customer oriented delivery experience to a high level of customer satisfaction.

Location

This role is based in our office in Den Haag, Netherlands.

This is an office-based vacancy and as such we expect all applicants to be willing to commute to our offices a minimum of 3-4 days per week as per our hybrid working policy.

Please note, to be considered for this role you must have the right to work in the Netherlands. We are unable to offer sponsorship at this time.

Key responsibilities...

Project Delivery

• Initiate projects in accordance with any project management methodology in force from time to time and establish the appropriate level of project documentation and control for the project being managed.
• Ensure projects are delivered within tolerance: time to project completion date, cost and quality.
• Ensure that all project documentation is maintained to a high standard and that all project deliverables meet the customer’s expectations of performance and quality.
• Establish an appropriate test plan according to customer requirements.
• Manage virtual project teams as required.

Customer Relationship Management

• Establish a single point of contact for the customer for the duration of the project and agree escalation paths for all stakeholders.
• Manage customer communications during the project life cycle ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction and ensuring regular contact between virtual teams across the business.

Sales / Financial Support

• Contribute to bids and tenders and provide project management input to presales support activities, including documentation and customer presentations.
• Manage project costs, ensuring that sales margins are maintained and all additional costs are tracked and recovered where possible.
• Generate accurate forecasts for in-house planning and budgeting purposes as requested.
• Understand and maintain financial control throughout the full project lifecycles, delivering against an agreed project revenue plan.
• Agree billing plans for customers alongside account management and billing teams.

Process Management and Improvement

• Ensure projects have met key milestones before they progress to subsequent delivery stages.
• Implement appropriate project controls at the initial project initiation stage including any risk, issue logs or change control methods as per internal processes.
• Ensure internal systems and reporting tools are maintained to reflect the current state of a project.
id>Undertake project debriefs to identify, review and propose improvements that you, the project management team, the wider business and customers will benefit from.

About you...

• A Bachelor's degree in a relevant subject.
• Good experience in project management or project delivery to external clients in the technology/finance sector.
• Proven ability to effectively manage projects from start to finish and work to a deadline.
• Excellent communication, organisationaland interpersonal skills.
• Proven ability to solve problems creatively.
• The ability to motivate others to deliver.
• Fluent / Native level Dutch and English.
• Proof of eligibility to work in the Netherlands or valid work visa if applicable.

About the Company...

Content Guru is the largest privately owned provider of Contact Centre as a Service (CCaaS) in Europe. We have grown to have offices in the UK, US, Netherlands, Germany and Japan, and our award-winning proprietary cloud services now power some of the largest organisations across the globe. Operating in sectors ranging from utilities and travel through to finance and government, our clients include UK Power Networks, Rakuten, Rightmove, Interflora, Sodexo, and the National Health Service (NHS).

Our mission is to enhance the way the world communicates. With our omni-channel cloud contact centre solution, storm®, we enable businesses, customers and colleagues to interact across social media, video, SMS, email, web, web chat, and emerging technologies, such as WebRTC. We connect to hundreds of external systems, including AI, information and logistics systems, to bring information and communications together and deliver the customer experience of tomorrow.

We take pride in our core beliefs of teamwork, quality and agility. Time and again, this ethos has been reflected in our high-quality products and our aptitude for providing quick, responsive solutions to our customers. With a core staff of intelligent and passionate individuals, we are looking for new members to continue upholding our beliefs and to catalyse further successes as we expand on a global scale.

Content Guru knows that inclusivity drives innovation. We are an equal opportunity employer with an inclusive workforce of every race, gender, religion, orientation, or disability. We’re devoted to people, and nurture talent and development.