Area of responsibility

• Successfully run and complete projects implementing Vault Management, Warehouse management and/or Production software with additional developments within our client’s organization, within the agreed timelines, budget and quality criteria.

• Contributing to project budget calculations and presentations to clients in the pre-sales phase.

• Management of resources and distribution of tasks across projects in coordination with the resources involved.

• Within quotation processes, the SW Project Manager analyses the implementation strategy and impact.

• Within projects the SW Project Manager is able to write requirements, work with the development team and perform acceptance tests.

Main tasks

Integrate Software Products

• SW Product Integration capabilities

• Proven experience of file transfer mechanism, new integration platforms/APIs

• Porting or migration from legacy integration footprints to modern integration landscapes

• Large application implementations with significant integration components including ESB, web-services, file transfers, point to point integrations

Execute resource management

• Anticipating on project timelines by resource allocation scenarios with a horizon of 3-36 months.

• Continuous resource and (project) task allocation management based on the dynamics.

• Ownership of the project related resource anticipation sheet with a 3-36 month horizon.

• Continuous management of proper task allocation and commitment across projects.

• Discussing and challenging task requirements and anticipated effort.

• Anticipating and discussing development requirements with the Product and Service Manager (internal and external) for alignment with project timelines.

• Control project activities of all involved stakeholders and address issues like missing tasks, improper task descriptions, non-committed tasks, overdue tasks, etc.

• Managing people’s proper project contributions regarding taking task and due date responsibility and delivering high quality.

Manage and execute projects

• Managing large projects or programs with multiple projects or work streams operating in parallel with internal and external dependencies

• Executing projects with significant third party dependencies and stakeholder management to align delivery time frames and testing

• Creation of detailed project plans consisting of scope, deliverables, budget, delivery and lead times, resource planning, risks & mitigations, communication and reporting.

• Organize proper project teams and their involvement in the creation of plans and commitment to the tasks.

• Monitor and manage project involved in order to achieve quality and timely deliveries.

• Coaching of project involved and Sales team members regarding project management.

• Manage risks, resources, issues across all projects with a horizon 3-36 months.

• Intervene when project involved cannot resolve project issues.

• Plan and manage transfers from project to support.

• Regular communication with and visits to clients where projects are operative, informing them about the progress of the projects.

• Organization and execution of the steering committee meetings and ensure proper governance.

• Organize project evaluations and lessons learned registration, for future use.

• Continuous improvement of the processes.

Authorities

• Management of implementation project budgets.

• Deciding on (priorities relating to) the use of internal and external employees.

• Deciding on task allocations.

• Deciding on project standards and methodologies.

Result areas

• (Client) project objectives and results.

• Commercial project success.

• Project organisation - quality and effectiveness.

• Satisfaction of principals, clients, relations.

• Quality and implementation of improvement suggestions.

Job requirements

Knowledge

• Project management

• Handling cash and cash management processes

• Concepts and models for supply chain integration and logistics

• Software product and services of G+D

• Business process (re)design

• G+D Strategy

Skills

• Project management

• Interpersonal skills (including communication)

• Planning and organizing

• Conflict handling

Competences

• Ability to remain positive, with a 'can do' attitude

• Ability to find pragmatic solutions to challenges

• Forward thinking

• Result orientation

• Managing performance

• Decisiveness

• Persuasiveness

• External awareness