Lead projects from initiation through closure, taking responsibility of scope, schedule, budget, risks, governance, and outcomes. Operate independently with limited oversight while maintaining transparent communication and timely escalation.
Key Task & Responsibilities:
- Own projects end-to-end: define objectives, scope, deliverables, milestones, success measures, governance, and delivery approach in alignment with business stakeholders
- Develop and maintain integrated plans covering schedule, resources, budget, dependencies, quality, and change activities.
- Drive execution without day‑to‑day supervision; set clear expectations, follow through on commitments, and resolve obstacles proactively.
- Coordinate cross‑functional teams and third parties, ensuring each deliverable has a clear owner, due date, and acceptance criteria.
- Manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, and changes. Escalate early with impact analysis and practical options.
- Provide concise, accurate status reporting to sponsors, steering committees, and stakeholders; make progress, trade‑offs, and decisions visible.
- Build stakeholder alignment through structured communication, active listening, expectation management, and constructive challenge.
- Prepare and facilitate kick‑offs, working sessions, governance reviews, and phase‑gate decisions; document actions and decisions.
- Monitor project financials, resource demand, vendor commitments, and benefits; identify variances and initiate corrective action.
- Ensure project documentation is complete, current, and auditable. Capture lessons learned and complete formal handover and closure.
- Contribute to consistent project management standards, templates, tools, and continuous improvement across the portfolio
Key Working Relations:
- Internal: Executive sponsors, business owners, functional leaders, IT teams, Finance, Procurement, Legal, Security, Data, and end users.
- External: Implementation partners, suppliers, consultants, and other third parties.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.
- 5-7+ years of project management experience, preferably in cross‑functional, international, or technology‑enabled environments.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects independently with limited oversight.
- Strong planning, prioritization, problem-solving, and decision‑making skills; comfortable working through ambiguity.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including clear executive‑level reporting and meeting facilitation.
- Proven stakeholder management and influencing skills across functions, seniority levels, cultures, and locations.
- Working knowledge of scope, schedule, budget, RACI, change control, governance, vendor management, and project closure.
- Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and project or portfolio management tools; edison365 or Microsoft Project experience is an advantage.
- PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, or equivalent certification is an advantage.
- Fluent English required; additional languages are an advantage.