Strategy & Digital Transformation Project Manager

About the role

Within Orange Business, the mission of Digital Technology is “To be a trusted technology business partner, delivering outstanding digital experiences that amaze our customers, partners and employees”. To do so we are in the process of reimagining our IT to better serve the Business and leave behind our IT complexity by simplifying and modernizing our existing IT stack as well as delivering a brand new IT platform so that we can launch our next generation of products.

To achieve these goals, Chief Operating Office direction of Digital Technology is in charge of defining the strategy, the transformation plan for Digital Technology, and to ensure its good execution, guaranteeing we maximize the value produced, mobilizing Digital Technology’s resources on the key strategic projects within a clear budget framework.

The projects of strategy and transformation, thus, cover a wide variety of areas : evolution of our organization, operating models, strategic workforce planning (insourcing/outsourcing, location of activities), financial improvement programs (EBITDA, SG&A, …), ….

The position of Strategy & Transformation project manager aims at driving or participating to key projects of transformation or strategy evolution for Digital Technology for the next years, reporting to the Strategy & Transformation Director of Digital Technology / Chief Operating Office.

Working under the supervision of the Strategy & Transformation director, the Strategy & Transformation Project Manager will be in charge of projects managed by the direction, in accordance with skills and area of expertise. She/he will be in charge of

• Defining the main objectives, deliverables and key indicators of the project, after interviews with main stakeholders from Digital Technology (Chief Operating Office, Digital Technology departments) and other Orange Business entities (Finance, HR, Orange Business Transformation, …)
• Define the strategic stakes of the project and how it will serve or adapt Digital Technology general strategy
• Propose an organization of the project and its governance
• Identify and mobilize key resources to ensure good progress of the project
• Follow the execution of the project and drive the results: clear metrics business oriented to measure the outputs (e.g. time to market, cost of the delivery) and performance of the team
• Develop and execute change management plans to ensure smooth transitions.
• Present regularly the progress of the project (and request support if necessary) to stakeholders

About you

IT Engineer or consulting experience with significant IT background

• Experience in project management
• Market knowledge and capacity to analyze and define strategic orientations.
• Results and Value oriented
• Drive, autonomy and initiative taking, transparency and pro-activity
• Good Communication skills, and capacity to adapt to different level within the organization (contributors, managers, key stakeholders)
• Listen, give feedback, address concerns, and ensure that the project is meeting its goals and business needs.
• Ability to think out of the box, flexibility to change the model,
• Foster a culture of collaboration across the teams with proven ability to work cross-functionally
• Caring, Responsible and Bold!
• Capacity to develop and maintain a close relationship with key stakeholders

At ease with international English, French is a plus