Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager

Department: General

Location: India

Reports to Commercial Director/ Dotted line to MD India

Job Purpose

Own the cluster programme set up with all cluster partners. Lead the project, work with stakeholders, oversee all the planned activities from inception to year 3, manage the reporting and be the go-to person for the project. Be independent in your project management.

Key Activity

• Prepare project planning with Vietnam project manager, set up project organization and project plan. Update project plan to record development in the project.
• Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Translate grant objectives into a 3year master plan with workbreakdown structure, milestones, dependencies, and risk registers; establish Project Management Office (PMO) activities (steering, working groups, partner ops calls).
• Build and maintain a Program Charter, governance calendar, and decision logs; ensure alignment across India & NL stakeholders.
• Design and monitor budgets as per RVO allocation.
• Oversee and activate all activities as per activity and results overview Final Grant for the whole duration of the project.
• Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects within set time and budget.
• Manage the relationship with the RVO and all stakeholders, (Dutch partners, Indian partner, KVK and Poultry Federation).
• Organize and lead project meetings with internal and external parties.
• Publish Inception Report, Progress Reports, and Final Closure/Impact Report as per RVO timelines and templates; maintain evidence packs (attendance, photos, training logs, Monitoring & Evaluation datasets).

Others:

• Do market research on potential vendors to help execute the programme. Vendors can be constructors of the infrastructure for barn house for instance.
• Preparing contracts/agreements/legal documents in projects in condition of cooperating with legal department.
• Perform reporting according to RVO reporting requirements
• Oversee pay out of grants to cluster partners. Work in conjunction with finance manager to decide on best way of allocation of funds from tax and legal perspective.

Job Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor or University degree in business, engineering, industrial management. Or equivalent proven work experience.

Experience

• Over 5 years of working experience in project management at Integration company or MNC. (Technical) knowledge of animal nutrition industry desirable.

Competencies

• Winning & Proactive mentality. Self-starter.
• Team and independent spirit
• Communicative efficiency
• Leadership
• Entrepreneurship, daring to take own decisions
• High Organizational skills
• Networking
• Negotiation skills
• Management and coaching skills

Language

• Proficiency in English

Other Requirements

Willing to travel around: The job requires flexibility and may require occasional informal as well as formal meetings outside of normal office hours.