Program Manager

Company Description

We offer an excellent opportunity for an experienced Program Manager to work closely with clients and develop a new initiative within the company.

If you are ready to join the development of something new, make decisions, and achieve results, this opportunity is waiting for you. 

Join our team!

PROJECT

We are seeking an experienced Program Manager to join our team with a background in IoT, Automotive, or Industrial Machinery Manufacturing. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with a proven track record in successfully managing software development projects. 

Here are several interesting projects available at our business unit: 

• IoT: the project includes the development of smart home climate solutions for a Client operating in the heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) domain. Together with the Client, we bring smart climate solutions in terms of wireless connectivity and intelligent control for any property, whether it is an apartment block, an industrial building, a hotel, or a country house to help reduce energy consumption for our Client’s customers and society at large.

• Machinery Manufacturing: the project includes the development of embedded software for a client, which is one of the world’s leading suppliers of pumps, valves, and related systems. Today the group has a presence on all continents with its own sales and marketing companies, manufacturing facilities, and service, operations.

• Automotive: the project includes DevOps services for the client, who is a manufacturer of power electronics designed to serve electrical mobility. The company's power electronics specializes in an inductive charging system, production of electric motors, batteries, and power electronic components for electric vehicles.

Job Description

• Ensure internal and external customer management through effective communication at the level required by generally applicable business ethics standards 
• Supervise services and project delivery by active leadership of the PMs’ team. Ensure projects start, tailoring and delivery according to the best-fit delivery model and best project management practices 
• Provide high-quality portfolio risk analysis, tracking, acting upon, and communicating risks properly to customers 
• Control KPIs, such as profitability, revenue, utilization, and attrition, and take active actions to keep them at the best possible level 
• Be a resource and people manager, actively participate in planning required hires in collaboration with the Recruiting team, and ensure onboarded people’s professional growth 
• Be an entrepreneur and act as a customer’s agent, by developing customer relations and business insight, and proposing extra services customers may need 
• Participate in pre-sale and up-sale on current account 
• Take an active part in business and contract negotiations, as well as defining business terms in contracts 
• Take corrective actions required to deliver complete scope with desired quality on time and within the budget (including scope change management, risk mitigation, etc.) 
• Manage projects staff (partially): track, coordinate, and notify management about the need for staff career growth; avoid conflicts in the team 
• Participate in pre-sale activities

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of project management experience 
• Strong knowledge of project and program management methodology, tools, and techniques 
• Experience as a business development manager 
• Strong risk management skills 
• Strong tactical planning and leadership skills 
• Good communication and presentation skills to communicate effectively with customers and project teams 
• Ability to manage projects directly or supervise other PM
• Strong organizational, negotiation, conflict-resolution capabilities 
• Advanced understanding of corporate environment and objectives; ability to propose solutions for their achievement 
• Advanced level of English 
• Domain knowledge expertise in Automotive