Infrastructure Project Manager

**Role: Infrastructure Project Manager**

**Location: Brussels, Belgium**

**Description**:
He.she ensures that these projects are completed on time and within budget, and that the project's objectives are met (according to scope).

Projects are separate to usual day-to-day business activities and require a group of people to work together to achieve a set of specific objectives.

**The project manager is accountable for the realisation of a project (*)**:

- setup of the project:

- agree project objectives with management and stakeholders
- ensure project effort and cost estimation
- ensure project planning
- ensure project sourcing: setup of project staffing and/or sub-contracting
- monitoring of the project:

- ensure availability of all project deliverables, observing scope, quality (a.o. functional requirements, work orders towards internal or external suppliers), costs and deadlines as foreseen in the plans
- ensure that all objectives and requirements are taken into account
- monitor and manage all risks related to the project
- respect of rules and standards:

- ensure that all involved parties, including sub-contractors, adhere to enterprise rules and standards (including Compliance, Permanent Control and Operational Risk)
- documentation and reporting on the project:

- ensure that the different project documents are created and maintained during the project’s life to reflect all changes occurred
- publish the regular progress reports
- contribute to the preparation of the project steering committees
- representation of the project:

- participate in the project steering committees and other appropriate meetings
- ensure communication between the business and the different stakeholders
- handover of the project deliverables:

- continuously align and share information during the project with the parties who will ensure the “run” activity once the project is finished, handover at the end of the project

If no organizational (dedicated) change manager is appointed, the Project Manager is responsible for the design of the change management plan together with the Core Team, and for the coordination of the change management actions in order to come to an adoption of the solution.

He/she manages functionally (on content) the team assigned to his/her project.

Project managers typically lead by example. They can manage one or more projects.

(*) depending on the project

accountabilities can cover all aspects of a project from the beginning stages through to completion

accountabilities can spread over multiple businesses (e.g. IT, legal, HR, Marketing, etc.) or be limited to one business

accountabilities can spread over multiple disciplines inside a business (e.g. both software and hardware aspects in an IT project) and multiple assets

**At least 5 years of relevant experience**

**Education**:
Master level (with IT affinity) or equivalent by experience

**Technical experience Mandatory**:

- Basic knowledge of Mainframe, Midrange, Linux, Windows, HVD, Firewall, CFT, MQ, Oracle, SQL, WAS, Cloud (PaaS/IaaS

**Business Experience Mandatory**:

- Experience in project management methods, processes and tools (Rally, Excel, Powerpoint,...)
- Experience in the concerned domain(s)

**Business Experience Preferable**:

- Knowledge of banking scope & organization

**Soft Skill**:

- Communicative, strong networking and negotiation skills
- Organised, methodical and rigorous
- Creative, solution oriented
- Teamplayer (motivating and listening abilities)
- Able to make decisions

**Languages**:

- Dutch Good understanding of NL
- French Good understanding of FR
- English Fluent written & spoken EN