Reference Number: 5300442
Location: The Netherlands
Sr Project Manager – Manufacturing
Job Summary:
My client is searching for a Project Manager for our Consulting Services group, with a particular focus on Manufacturing. The candidate should be fluent in English and can be located anywhere in Europe.
This position requires up to 75% travel to client sites, focus on Manufacturing SC projects across the UK and Europe; working with teams locally, across EMEA and globally
Key Tasks
- Ability to deliver major projects to time, cost and quality; ensuring they achieve minimum gross margins as agreed at the outset of the project
- Able to lead from the front project teams in the resolution of customer project issues, escalating to appropriate parties as needed
- Collaborates with appropriate resources on customer’s business, organization and culture to strengthen their credibility as trusted advisors
- Helps validate and produce appropriate baseline project plans and templates
- Assists in generating Statement of Work and customer proposal documents
- Works with appropriate parties to plan project resource requirements
- Provides guidance, feedback, coaching, and developmental experiences to project team members
- Assesses project performance and communicates lessons learned to increase institutional knowledge
- Ensures project team adheres to policies, procedures, methodologies and quality standards
- Manages services engagements including interactions with client project team and client executives
- Resolves all project issues including budget, timeline, accounts receivable, scope changes, software functionality and technology
- Provides regular project communication and status reporting
- Manages project quality to ensure customer satisfaction
- Ensures that projects deliver the value/ROI sold with the engagement
- Builds collaborative relationship that increases customer’s perception of the value brings to their business and expands future business opportunities
- Keeps individual expenses within budget
- Records billable time to customer, as appropriate
- Records cost-transfer time to other teams, as appropriate
- Escalates issues that may have negative financial impact
- Manages service engagement budgets
- Reviews billing for all active accounts
- Maximizes margin on service engagements
- Ensure the customers’ business case is met or exceeded
- Ensures supporting project documentation is in order and submitted timely
Experience / Skills required:
- Sound project management work experience required
- Minimum of 2 years’ all round experience of ERP / SCM software solutions in a Functional or Project Consulting capacity with end to end capability (Functional / Technical knowledge)
- Broad Manufacturing Supply Chain experience (S&OP/IBP, ESP, Demand, Sequencing, BTO) through related complex client-side implementations enterprise clients
- Experience managing large manufacturing software implementation projects required and key project leadership / project management
- Integration and coordination experience with 3rd party consulting integrators (i.e. Cap Gap Gemini, IBM, HP etc.)
- PMP or Prince 2 certification is a plus, must be willing and able to adapt and adopt to project methodology and processes
- Demonstrated leadership experience in software consulting, implementation or development projects, with well-developed functional consulting and analytical skills
- Knowledgeable about project management best practices
- Demonstrated experience presenting and interfacing with C-Level Executives
- Skilled at leading and coordinating across diverse teams to achieve desired outcomes
- Ability to resolve complex problems with little to no guidance
- Capable of facilitating with teams i.e. design sessions, conflict resolutions, brainstorming etc.
- Ideally experience of multi-tier resource delivery models (on-shore, near-shore, off-shore)
- Track record in project managing multiple software application projects concurrently is desirable
- Experience in related Supply Chain (SCM) / Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software and Systems
- Proven experience of change and risk management is a plus
Technical / Product skills required:
- Experience with Microsoft Project desirable
- High level understanding of software and infrastructure – ideally from a major enterprise software house
- High level understanding of software development processes desirable
- High Level understanding of Integration desirable
Personal Profile:
- Excellent written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills in both English and Dutch (business level in both languages)
- Professional in attitude and appearance to face off with clients,
- Ability to handle multiple and changing priorities and multiple customers, having a proactive hands on approach
- Excellent questioning and listening skills, with strong influencing skills
- Approachable and able to communicate effectively at all levels, with excellent relationship skills
- Possess coaching skills to share information and knowledge effectively with customers and colleagues
- Ability to organise personal work time around client availability, travel requirements and other constraints in order to meet the assigned deliverables within agreed time/cost constraints and client expectations
- Motivated, confident, self-sufficient and able to contribute from day one
- Travel required to customer site or headquarters which could be based anywhere in the UK or Main-land Europe. Typically 50-75% travel each week – working at customer site Mon-Fri (occasional weekends by exception)
Interested??? Contact Anthony Cook TODAY!!! [email protected]
