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Senior Project Manager Vacancy

About the role

The Project Manager takes the lead role of planning, executing, monitoring, controlling and closing assigned Projects. The Project Manager is accountable for each assigned Project's Profit and Loss, Scope, Team and its success or failure. Responsibilities include ensuring that the scope and course of a Project is on track and communicated to both stakeholders and the Project Team together with the management of Issues, Risks and Project Change Requests. A Senior Project Manager's assigned Projects will be larger and more complex compared with those assigned to Project Manager.

Main Duties & Responsibilities 

• Able to work with and manager 3rd party suppliers and offshore resources
• Act as a trusted advisor to customers on their projects
• Approve and control time spent on project by resource
• Complete financial report of each project on a monthly basis
• Coordinate internal and external reports, gather, analyse and summarize data and information for project teams
• Develop and maintain of project tools, templates and process
• Develop positive working relationships in a distributed team, and to create effective collaboration 
  with direct and extended team members
• Evaluate and monitor the performance and efficiency of projects to ensure that timelines are met
• Evaluate the progress of the project and communicate regular updates to project teams and company leadership
• Interact and communicate with customers to drive client value
• Interfaces with the project team to discuss progress as well as identifying opportunities for 
  improvement
• Internal project financing in particular forecasting and revenue recognition aspects
• Manage large or multiple medium projects in a commercial environment
• Monitor timesheet completion; assist and/or train staff as required
• Monitor project budgets; reviewing reports and program expenses to determine if allocated funds 
  are used appropriately
• Perform day to day technical management of a delivery team – assigning tasks, monitoring progress 
  and managing workload and project risks
• Stakeholder management and presentation skills
• Status reporting on assignments and project timelines
• Will take part and enforce of the development of project methodology dedicated to Fusion GBS
• Work in a pressurised development and customer environment
• Work with offshore companies
• Together with the respective client you have to permanently control in how far agreed or desired 
  goals of the consultation have already been achieved
• Work with Project Management Office procedures
• Work closely with Fusion GBS Customers, Pre-Sales and other FPS team members
• Work as part of a project team to help deliver a successful project
• Serve as a liaison point between stakeholders and users
• Help Fusion GBS manage competing resources and priorities
• Monitor deliverables and ensure timely completion of projects

Skills

• Build Relationships: Develop and maintain relationships with Stakeholders
• Building Talent: Foster technical, personal career development for team members. Relevant for those who have knowledge/experience that can be passed on to others
• Decision Making: Make choices by identifying a decision, gathering information, and assessing 
  alternative resolutions.
• Inspiring: Fill someone with confidence and desire to do something
• Understand Financial implications: Know about and understand financial implications
• Foster Teamwork: Create and maintain a work culture that values collaboration. Rather than 
  encouraging competition, to create opportunities for the team to work together and use all available 
  resources and skills to reach the goals
• Understand Bigger Picture: Recognize how actions can affect the overall success of a project or 
  company aim, rather than focusing on minor details
• Influence: The capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone 
  or something, or the effect itself
• Inspire Trust: Stimulate others to have trust
• Manage and improve Processes: Identify, analyse, and improve existing processes to optimize 
  performance, meet best practice standards or simply improve quality and the user experience for 
  customers and end-user
• Manage Execution: Develop and manage project schedules, stakeholders and resources to ensure 
  on-time delivery
• Planning: Plan project related tasks and activities, based on Fusion method and common project 
  management procedures
• Clear Communication: Able to articulate a message
• Write Effectively: Produce documentation that is, clear, accurate, and concise
• Analytical and problem-solving skills: Examine information or a situation in detail in order to identify 
  key or important elements, their strengths and weaknesses and use these to compile a persuasive 
  argument, make recommendations or solve a problem
• Verbal and written communication skills: Articulate thoughts and express ideas effectively using oral, 
  written and non-verbal communication skills (to inform, instruct, and persuade), to multiple 
  audiences, as well as to listen for meaning and understanding
• Understand outcome-based services: Services and products deployed, operated and exploited by 
  Fusion consultants to not only operate the service, but also to derive value and exploit the capability 
  to deliver outcomes defined in the business case

Experience

• 3+ Years in IT Business
• 6+ Years Managing and delivering projects
• 6+ Years Technical Lead on Relevant IT projects

Qualifications / Certifications 

Required

• Project Management Foundation Level (e.g. Prince2 Foundation)
• Project Management Practitioner Level (e.g. Prince2 Practitioner)
• ITIL Foundation
•  BMC Xcelerate Certification

Desirable

• Project Management Expert Level (e.g. Prince2 Expert)
• Program Management Foundation Level (e.g. MSP Foundation)
• Program Management Practitioner Level (e.g. MSP Practitioner)
• ITIL Strategic Leader (ITIL SL)
• Certified Associate (or equivalent capability) in relevant Technology (or technologies).

Skills

• Salesforce PSA (Expert Level)
• MS Project (Expert Level)
• Jira (Expert Level)

About Fusion GBS

As a global leader in service management, we help businesses transform their operations with data-driven insights, scalable digital solutions, and measurable results. We take pride in serving a broad spectrum of industries across the world.

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