IT Project Manager (Test Transformation) - Banking Client - Brussels

Duration: 1 year

Rate: Euros 650 - 750 Euros per day

Remote Working is available however onsite presence in Brussels for Team meetings and Workshops will be required.

Job Description

In the context of our test transformation we are looking for a senior PL to manage the workstream related to 'Non Regret moves' as well as preparing the projects supporting the future test re-engineering initiative.

You are responsible for the end-to-end delivery of your projects, including:

• Delivery of the project scope on time, budget and with the expected quality
• Writing of comprehensive project memos, allowing the Business Sponsor and IT management to take relevant decisions
• Providing regular status to Project Sponsor/various stakeholders
• Monitoring of the expected benefits approved in the business cases

More specifically, you will:

• Develop and maintain project plans and forecasts, including resource requirements, costs, risks and their mitigations and dependencies with other projects
• Manage virtual teams across various divisions and entities, including third party suppliers in India
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with your customers, providing advice, guidance and options with regards IT investments
• Define deliverables, assign their production to project team members and monitor progress and quality of those deliverables, ensuring they respect the planning while maintaining good relationships
• Manage the staffing of assigned projects and monitor budget spent
• Lead the risk, issue and change control processes for assigned projects, build action plan to mitigate risks/solve issues and track action items
• Control and monitor the progress of projects, reporting to the Roadmap Manager and the Sponsorship Committee
• Manage the project according to the clients internal standards (methodology & tools)

Technical skills

• Experience in managing projects (minimum 10 years)
• Experience in testing domain
• Experience with the management of testing with external organisations such as T2S or Swift (including external stakeholders management)
• Experience in managing projects with external suppliers (including negotiation and contracts management with external suppliers with the support of specialized teams)
• Fluent in English

Soft skills

• Strong leadership skills to adapt your style according to the situation and to the different stakeholders
• Good business and/or technical understanding
• Interpersonal skills to influence decisions taken with the project sponsor/client
• Excellent communication skills (listening, writing and presenting) at all levels, from staff members to senior management
• Ability to learn quickly in a complex environment and to synthesize the situation
• Strong negotiation skills, conflict management and influencing skills at different levels of management
• Effective delegation of tasks and responsibilities while maintaining overall control
• Assertiveness to drive tasks to completion

Assets

• Certification in PRINCE 2 and/or PMI (or similar IT frameworks)
• Experience within the Banking environment

Please do send across to me the most up-to-date CV to (see below)