COTS Software Project Manager

Nature of the tasks

• Managing projects specifically in the domain of COTS selection and acquisition, according to the internal project management methodology ENGAGE, leaning on mastery of industry-standard project-management methodologies.

• Developing business-case type reports and project plans.

• Closely cooperating with intra-team experts, i.e. business analysts, solution architects, technical experts.

• Eliciting and extracting functional, technical, legal, compliance and other types of requirements, drafting structured needs and requirements documents.

• Scanning the global COTS market.

• Performing pre-project implementation and costing analysis.

• Soliciting product, compliance and offering materials from vendors.

• Maintaining vendor relations before and during the project.

• Conducting prototyping and proof-of-concepts.

• Liaising and negotiating with internal services (testing, legal, accessibility, security, procurement, enterprise architecture and development) in order to plan and complete various project activities.

• Contributing to procedural and technical guidelines documentation.

Educational qualifications:

Master's degree

A Master degree can be compensated by:

▪ either a Vocational Education/ High School degree with 10 years of professional experience,

▪ or a Bachelor degree with 4 years of professional experience.

• Such years of professional experience which were used to compensate for a level of education will not be counted in the years of professional experience required for a profile.

Relevant certifications:

Mandatory:

Active project management certificate (PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent industry standard)

Professional experience:

• Minimum of 8 years of work experience relevant to the domain of the lot.

• Successful track record in IT project management. Additional track record of accomplishment in leading COTS selection, acquisition and installation projects is highly desirable.

• IT system design and development work experience is a strong advantage.

• Work experience in business analysis is a strong advantage.

• Strong practical knowledge to quality control methods.

• Wide experience with different types of project lifecycles (waterfall, iterative, agile), designing custom lifecycles as needed.

Language skills:

English at C.1 level and preferably French at B.2 level.

Other specific expertise and skills:

• Drafting and reporting skills.

• Presentation and verbal skills, clarity in speaking and writing.

• Ability to interact with stakeholders at all levels.

• Striving for high quality in all work products.

• Ability to motivate others.

• Negotiation skills.

• Customer oriented.

• Good communication style and assertiveness.

• High functioning in a team environment with the ability to understand and work with different viewpoints.

• Leadership.

• Autonomy.

• Solid methodological grounding.

• Continuous learning.

• Tact and diplomacy.

• Excellent analytical and organisational skills.

• Ability to organise and lead project meetings composed of business and technical stakeholders of various levels of hierarchy.

• Ability to multi-task and perform under a high workload.