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The Contraste Europe Group builds strong relations with its clients. It offers a range of IT services such as: Advisory, Solutions, Applications and Infrastructure. The Group’s sector focus is with finance, utilities, public institutions and non-commercial organisations. We are operating on three countries located in Belgium, Luxemburg and France.

For one of our major clients in the financial sector, we are looking for a Project Manager.

Your Role:

As a Project Manager, you will:

• Manage a large, complex project or a portfolio of projects, focusing on delivering the architected technical solutions within project scope, proposed planning, required budget and staffing requirements.
• Coordinate with other IT project managers (ADM PLs, Tests leads) and a large group of delivery teams to implement project tasks.
• Responsible to keep consistency between all projects and maintains a confident relationship with sponsors and external stakeholders of the projects.
• Enforce the right delivery model towards the IT delivery teams. Ensure necessary adjustments and evolution are made to optimize the overall delivery.
• Oversee technical and organizational management and financial aspects on his portfolio or project. Responsible to report progress to senior management and/or the sponsor/client.
• Act as single point of contact and escalation path for his project or projects in his portfolio.
• Scope Variants relate to the size (budget), complexity, and/or timescale of the project along with project team composition as principal guides for determining the appropriate job match.

Your Profile:

Technical skills:

• At least 5 years of IT experience (at least 3 in project management).
• General technical knowledge and an understanding of the business issues.
• Complexity & problem solving: handle standard & non-standard situations with low level of uncertainty, covering multiple and new domains of expertise.
• Decision making: use sound judgment to take decisions within the own operational domain. Foster the development of new/improved procedures and methods within the own operational domain.
• Stakeholders management: build network of internal relationships across the organisation to deliver across domains. Use persuasion and influencing skills to get required support.
• Autonomy and leadership: work autonomously on a large domain. Work within clearly defined (periodic) targets, with full responsibility of delivery.
• Languages: English excellent both speaking and writing (document writing)

Interpersonal skills:

• Excellent formal and informal communication skills
• Client oriented
• Solution driven
• Team player but able to work independently
• Eager to learn
• Have strong negotiation skills
• Maintain good relationship with the different stakeholders within and beyond the department.

We Offer:

• A challenging position in a fast growing company with an international presence.
• A stimulating working environment with a really good team spirit maintained by lots of internal events (teambuilding, ...).
• A dynamic culture focused on personal development.
• A wide range of training and career development opportunities.

Interested? Please send us your CV in English at join-us@contraste.com.