MB Ageas Life

Overview of job

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading teams to deliver project(s) that span across business units, manage resources, schedules, financials and adhere to stage gate quality and PMO control guidelines throughout the project life cycle. This also includes management of issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery, contribute to process improvement initiatives as it relates to improving project delivery.

Project delivery:
Manage a portfolio of complex initiatives that span one or multiple domains/departments
Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for one major or several minor projects simultaneously
Ensure that projects and programs are proceeding according to scope, schedule, budget and quality standards
Provide on-site leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones
Conduct feasibility studies and oversee the selection of vendors
Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project members
Deliver appropriate and effective executive level communication
Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities

Project Governance:
Recommend strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends of assigned project/program
Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization
Maintain quality service by establishing and enforcing PMO standards, project management methodology is regularly reviewed and updated in line with best practices identified during the year.
Facilitate dependency management across the projects and programs
Share information, good practice and expertise with other PM and colleagues
Support the review and analysis of completed programs/projects, including the coordination of post implementation reviews
Perform other responsibilities and tasks as directed by the Line Manager in order to meet department objectives

Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, or a related field
8-10 years of project management and related experience. Proven experience in leading complex projects and project program
Familiar with different project management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Kaban…)
Project Management Professional (PMP) is mandatory
Other certificate (Prince II/scrum master) is preferred
Business awareness: Understands industry trends and their impact on business
Communication: Determines and utilizes the appropriate communication channels
Employs active listening
Strategy development:
Understands the impact of a project directly to and across various functions and to the overall business
Integrates business goals into the project scope and deliverables
Understands project and organizational dependencies
Leadership:
Takes initiative
Mentors team members
Responds in a politically astute manner
Judgement/decision making: Recognizes priorities, weighs up different options and evaluates risks. Reaches logical conclusions and decides on appropriate plan of action. Evaluates previous judgements in order to improve.
Planning and organizing: Able to achieve results in a quality, timely, and cost-effective way. Sees priorities, plans the efficient use of resources, and monitors progress against objectives. Anticipates crucial stages in projects. Formulates alternative means of achieving objectives. Responds effectively to unforeseen events.
Result orientation: Result orientation Result oriented mindset to surpass difficulty/complexity to complete assigned task.
Team management:
Motivates and inspires the team
Leads by example
Manages and resolves conflict
Builds relationships within and outside the team
Demonstrates team organization and governance
Flexibility: Respond positively to change and adapted to new situations quickly
Independence: Takes responsibility for own time and effectiveness
Tool & processes: Understands and integrates appropriate project management tools and processes
Internal & external:
Friendly and approachable
Good communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills
Build strategy for effective external communication