Project Manager

Project Manager

As a preferred supplier to one of our biggest financial organisations, I am seeking for a Project Manager for a 8 months+ contract in Netherlands.

Responsibilities:

The role consists of half project manager duties and half PMO duties, with some duties certainly overlapping.

Project manager activities:

Analysis and advice on various Operational readiness issues. Concerns short-term projects that require a short deep dive or that need to be realized in the short term.
Draws up a plan of action for various issues and, in collaboration with those involved, independently carries out the assignment.
Maintains control over the planning and is accountable to the client to ensure that the project is carried out within the set quality, time and budget.

PMO activities;

PMO lead role: provides integrated planning of PMO activities and ensures operational management of the other (two) PMOs (including work distribution, prioritization, etc.)
Ensures the integrity of OpR data/updates in various reports/systems.
Facilitates meetings: team meetings, project consultations, etc.
Fulfils a senior and substantive PMO role in the Go-live Control team during the go-live period of raising funds: manages go-live issue log and action list, dashboard, signals bottlenecks in progress, etc.

Experience:

Pro-activity: identifying issues that are not going well in a timely manner and, above all, making proposals about which activities need to be addressed in the coming period.
Helicopter view: ensures coherence within PMO activities and ensures dependencies with other initiatives in project activities.
Execution power: this role requires a high pace of delivering deliverables, especially during the go-live period, this is on a daily basis.
Attention to detail: not only working accurately, but also being able to extract the most relevant points from large amounts of information.
Quickly master content: has the skills to quickly master the subject and context to a certain substantive level
Excellent written communication skills
Interpersonal skills/style flexibility: can switch well between different levels of employees within the company
Planning and organizing: prepares and facilitates various meetings so that the intended goal/result is realized. Creates feasible and clear schedules.
Advisory skills: after analysis, formulates an advisory report and ensures that this is a supported advisory report.

Please apply with an updated CV, if interested or looking for a new opportunity as soon as possible.

Stefan Owusu-Francois

Recruitment Consultant

Gazelle Global Consulting

Mob: +44 (0) 7985 515893

Tel: +31 (0) 85 009 05 68