IT Project Leader

Position: Project Leader, IT Systems

Location:        Europe

Job Summary

The company is seeking a high-performing Project Leader with measurable experience for the introduction of Microsoft DAX365 across multiple European sites. This role is responsible for overall project management and planning. The project manager is expected to collaborate effectively with 3rd party vendors and across various internal business stakeholders to ensure the right work and the right approach is applied to achieve the stated business outcome

Primary Responsibilities

Managing project delivery across multiple functional departments from requirements to deployment, identifying schedules, scopes, implementation and risk mitigation

• Providing the project teams with clear purpose, direction, and motivation
• Track project deliverables
• Project planning to define tasks, project scheduling, assessing dependencies, managing assignments, monitoring progress and communicating to the project team, business stakeholders and third-party vendors.
• Prioritize scope elements with business and other stakeholders to focus on value and speed to market
• Work closely with the Business process owners to define project deliverables and governance in a lean and efficient manner aligned with objectives.
• Provides clarity around project risks and issues and negotiates across stakeholders when needed to ensure priorities and objectives are addressed
• Provides regular project communication to all stakeholders.
• Provides project reporting metrics against quality, time, risk, scope, and budget, including recommendations for improvements
• Follow a change process to manage, including change requests when required, escalation of issues and risks to proactively address any roadblocks or need for decisions
• Leverage modern practices: Kanban, Agile, Stand-up meetings on progress, etc,. to ensure the best insight on the issues to be solved and the best approach to get to value.

Required Education and/or Experience

• Five years of experience overseeing IT projects (Infrastructure, Disaster Recovery, ERP, MRP, Operations, Business Applications).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, MS Project and MS SharePoint and experience leveraging modern tools: Kanban boards, online facilitation tools and techniques
• Experience working within Manufacturing – preferred

Skills and Competencies

• Experience working with Business Analysts, Developers, Systems Administrators and other IT resources.
• Passionate about enabling business through system applications
• Experience in effectively communicating with senior management and with multicultural teams; adapting style to the audience
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and a proven ability to work in cross-functional/matrix organizations
• Demonstrated ability for effective meeting facilitation leveraging modern techniques
• Track record of driving for results and taking initiative
• Advanced problem-solving skills, along with a demonstrated ability to outline and organize complex business processes into simplified steps and common language.
• Demonstrate passion to succeed, inspire and motivate project teams/resources
• Focus on customers: creating positive experiences through active listening, seeking feedback for action, continuous improvements, and follow through, as well as sharing an informed point of view to make solid recommendations