Senior Project Leader

What you will do

You will take operational responsibility for a complex IT project in the HR domain, involving multiple institutions and numerous business and technical stakeholders. Following a pre-study phase, the project is entering its initiation and realisation phase, requiring scope refinement, organisational structuring and steering through to solution delivery.

Reporting to a chain project leader and chain service manager, you will coordinate the day-to-day activities of the various parties and teams. Your main responsibilities include:

• Steering scope, planning, development budget, development resources and their efficiency, risks, dependencies and development quality
• Establishing budgets in collaboration with the chain project leader
• Creating planning that accounts for task allocation, workload, priorities, budgets and quality expectations
• Monitoring project progress, quality, processes and costs
• Ensuring compliance with quality standards and imposed methodologies
• Adapting planning to changing circumstances and flagging budget overruns in good time
• Maintaining daily contact with stakeholders on project progress and providing effective reporting
• Discussing issues with collaborators and management
• Contributing to go/no-go decisions
• Proactively identifying and signalling team staffing needs
• Defining operational objectives aligned with strategic goals, communicating them to the team and agreeing individual objectives
• Motivating the development team and strengthening team spirit through daily contact, attention to needs and concerns, information flow and team activities

What we are looking for

Essential

• Proven experience leading complex IT projects, ideally in a .NET technical context
• Mastery of the main dimensions of project management: scope, planning, budget, resources, risks, quality and governance
• Experience managing projects with multiple stakeholders with differing interests and priorities
• Ability to steer a decentralised project team whose members and expertise are distributed across different organisations or stakeholders
• Ability to transform a high-level scope into a concrete, structured and manageable project organisation
• Ability to understand business challenges while having sufficient grasp of technical aspects, particularly integrations and dependencies between systems
• Team management skills: informing collaborators correctly (individually and collectively, through meetings and reports), monitoring daily activities, discussing problems, providing advice, explaining new decisions, detecting and signalling training needs, assisting with defining individual objectives and onboarding new team members
• Ability to understand the content of deliverables and manage analyses: examining business needs, analysing problems and studying existing situations with business owners, developing data, process and behaviour analyses with functional analysts, presenting results, managing and proposing improvements to quality, deadlines and efficiency
• Experience with Agile methods and working with multidisciplinary teams
• Excellent communication, coordination, negotiation and stakeholder management skills
• Autonomous, structured, pragmatic and results-oriented profile
• Active knowledge of both French and Dutch

Assets

• Experience with migration or system/application integration projects
• Significant experience with projects in a convergence context between organisations (merger, acquisition with pooling of teams mastering different technologies) or technologies (mainframe phase-out, COBOL to .NET replacement and accompanying team skills development)
• Experience steering a .NET development team
• Knowledge of standards, governance processes and basic tools such as Jira and Confluence
• PRINCE2 or equivalent certification

The setting

This assignment runs for 26 months, from as soon as possible until the end of December 2028. You will work in a hybrid mode from Brussels. The working languages are French and Dutch, with English also used.

The role requires someone who can create structure in a complex environment, bring together actors from different organisations and maintain the balance between business objectives, technical constraints, governance and operational delivery. Strong stakeholder management skills in a government or large enterprise context are essential.

Location: Brussels, hybrid

Work address: Belgium

Employer / contracting party: HumanInTech

Applications close (Brussels time): November 17, 2026 at 1:00 AM

Engagement: Freelance or employed by HumanInTech

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