Job Description

Main Purpose:

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.

Qualification & Competencies:

• 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.

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