Senior Project Manager

senior project manager at randstad Global PMO

your typical day includes

Leads the planning, execution and delivery of moderately complex projects or programs across a range of workstreams or a program office for complex global programs through all specific phases, in alignment with the organization strategies and client contractual requirements

As a person, you are proactive and good at working with a high degree of autonomy. Good communication and people skills are a must. You are a conversation partner with integrity and know how to work with confidential information. You get energy from the fast changing world of

HR, technology and organizations.

key activities

• Coordinates the development, documentation and implementation of projects / programs in line with organization policies and strategies, defining and maintaining realistic project plans and monitoring project finances and progress against agreed quality and performance criteria
• Defines and executes large projects or smaller programs/portfolios, inputting on the project execution strategy, agreeing and reviewing approach, coordinating subcontractors and suppliers to ensure timely delivery of goods and services
• Handles and resolves issue escalations, dependencies and project changes, and proactively identifies project risks, recommending scheduling changes, cost adjustments or resource additions as appropriate
• Builds relationships with all applicable stakeholders and holds accountability for the regular communication of project status
• Continuously develops and shares knowledge with the team on emerging trends and changes in Project/Program Management & PMO, e.g., agile methodologies such as LEAN, Six Sigma.
• Mentors other Project/Program Management & PMO professionals, helping to improve the teams abilities by acting as a technical resources
• Provides comprehensive technical expertise on projects / programs, using advanced project management knowledge
• provide strategic overview and scrutiny, ensuring alignment with wider policy and strategic initiatives.
• ensure the correct BAU stakeholders are timely involved with the project for a successful handover e.g. maintenance and support teams
• oversee the support and facilitation of meetings, workshops and events
• oversee the documentation and coordination of risks, issues, decisions, actions, and change requests, as well as value realization

your background

• minimum bachelor degree or equivalent in working experience
• minimum of 12 years experience in the industry; expert knowledge of PMO
• additional specific skills and proven experience are mostly related to the Atlassian Suite with a focus on Confluence and Jira

1. Structure Information Hierarchies: help us build scalable "Blueprints" for Confluence spaces and Jira projects, ensuring a logical parent-child relationship between Initiatives, Epics, Stories, and Sub-tasks.
2. System Configuration: understand the "Atlassian Hierarchy" to be the owner of system configuration and the related governance (as owner in the Global PMO team) - collect challenges and good practices across the teams, proactively come up with proposal to improve ways of working whilst ensuring the systems and workflows remain scalable
3. Metrics & Performance Analytics: A strong understanding of delivery progress / health indicators - such as lead time, and burn rate - and the technical ability to translate these theoretical metrics into functional Jira or Looker dashboards.
4. Engineer Data-Driven Dashboards: Configure real-time Jira or Looker Dashboards using advanced gadgets and JQL (Jira Query Language) to provide high-level health and progress views for executives and granular task tracking for delivery teams.
5. Visualize Delivery Velocity: create, utilize and interpret reports including burndown charts - to predict delivery timelines and identify (workflow) bottlenecks.
6. Bridge the Gap Between Tools: Maintain a "Single Source of Truth" strategy by ensuring all technical documentation in Confluence is contextually linked to the execution tasks in Jira (preferably by applying experience with automation).
7. a Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification may be advantageous
8. experience in leading teams having worked in a global, international and digital environment is an advantage familiar with working in a Google environment

what characterizes you?

• strategic and analytical mindset, process and improvement thinker you love problem solving
• strong critical thinking and analytical skills
• well organized and able to work under pressure, self starter, loving autonomy to work and able to delegate work
• strong leadership skills, able to influence others, constructive feedback techniques
• strong need to develop and maintain robust and effective working relationships with all parts of the organization and business
• productive communication skills towards executives
• excellent organization, interpersonal and time management skills teamwork mentality
• keen on delivering training and administrative support