Senior Project Leader

We are looking for aSenior Project Leader to ensure the operational management of a complex IT project in the HR field, involving several institutions and many business and technical players.
After a pre-study phase, the project enters its initiation and implementation phase, with the refinement of the scope, the structuring of the organization and the management of the various phases of implementation until the implementation of the solution.

Mission
As a Project Leader, you are responsible for the operational management of the project, under the responsibility of a Chain Project Leader and a Chain Service Manager. You will work with them to ensure the smooth running of the project and coordinate the various stakeholders and teams on a daily basis.

Your main responsibilities:

• Manage the scope, planning, development budget, development resources and their effectiveness, risks, dependencies and quality ofdevelopment.
• Establish budgets in preparation with the Chain Project Leader;
• Establish schedules taking into account:
• the assignment of missions/tasks to the workers;
• Workload;
• Priorities;
• Planned budgets;
• Quality expectations;
• Ensure the follow-up of the project (quality, process/progress, costs);
• Ensure compliance with quality standards and imposed methodologies;
• Adapt the schedule to changes in the situation;
• Monitor the budget and report any overruns in a timely manner;
• Maintain daily contact with stakeholders regarding the progress of ongoing projects;
• Provide effective reporting;
• Discuss any problems with the processors and the manager;
• Contribute to the decision on whether or not to carry out a project;
• Proactively detect and report on the team's staffing needs;
• Taking into account the strategic objectives, define the operational objectives of the department, service or section. Communicate these objectives and, in consultation with the processors, define their individual objectives;
• Motivate the development equipment and strengthen team spirit: maintain daily contact with the elaborators, be attentive to their needs and concerns, transmit relevant information from the management to the elaborators and vice versa, organize team activities, etc.
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• Essential Skills
• Proven experience in managing 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 in managing projects involving multiple stakeholders, with different interests and priorities.
• Ability to lead a decentralized project team, whose members and expertise are distributed within the different organizations or stakeholders.
• Ability to transform a high-level scope into a concrete, structured and manageable project organization.
• Ability to understand business issues while having a sufficient understanding of technical aspects, including integrations and dependencies between systems.
• Team Management Ability:
• Properly inform farmers (individually/collectively, through meetings and reports)
• Track the daily activities of the laborers
• Discuss issues
• Provide advice and explain new decisions
• Detect and report the need for action to the business architect/analyst
• Assist the business architect/analyst in defining individual objectives
• Supporting new manufacturers
• Ability to understand the content of deliverables and management of analyses:
• Review business needs: analyze problems and explore existing situations together with business owners
• Develop data, process and behavior analyses, schedules and information analyses with functional analysts
• Present the results
• Manage and propose improvements regarding the quality, deadlines and efficiency of the work to be carried out
• Experience with Agile methods and development with multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent communication, coordination, negotiation and stakeholder management skills.
• Autonomous, structured, pragmatic and results-oriented profile.
• Good active knowledge of French and Dutch.

Advantages:

• Experience with system/application migration or integration projects.
• Ideally, a successful candidate has significant experience of projects carried out in a context of convergence between organizations (merger, acquisition with a pooling of teams mastering different technologies) or technologies (phase-out of a mainframe, replacement of COBOL by .Net for example, and support for the skills of the teams);
• Experience leading a .NET development team;
• Knowledge of standards, governance processes, basic tools such as jira, confluence,
• Having obtained a PRINCE2 or equivalent certification is an asset;
• Good  knowledge of the two main national languages is an important asset

Skills
.NET Framework
Agile
JIRA & Confluence (project follow-up & knowledge management)
Prince 2
UML

Languages
Dutch - Professional working Proficiency
English
French - Level Native