**Mission/Position Headline**:
Designs, develops and manages customer projects, according to defined Project Management (PM) standards and customer requirements, and with end to end responsibility for economic results, quality, schedule and EHS
**Areas of Responsibility**:
Empowerment:
- Drives own empowered with adequate signature authorization and target agreement to manage the project as entrepreneur according the organizational standards
- Stands for overall responsibility on project results including budget, financial management of risks, opportunities, claims, scheduling and EHS
- Manage the project throughout the project Life Cycle until final acceptance (FAC):
- Handles relevant planning elements and milestone results
- Involves the relevant partners in the sales/ project initiation phase
- Performs contract reading and derives actions concerning risks, opportunities and contractual obligations
- Is responsible for the technical solution and the integration of all (sub-)systems
- Holds regular project status meetings and organizes acceptance of milestone work results
- Documents all work results according to the valid standards
- Manages acceptance (tests) and final project handover
- Is responsible for quality, EHS for the entire project
- Manage Customer Requirements:
- Manages customer expectations and solving of issues
- Actively gathers information on the customer and customer's strategies, requirements and targets
- Consults with customers on technical solutions, together with Sales Manager or Key Account Manager
- Clarifies customers' targets and requirements, and/or specification in request for proposal (RFP) and leads negotiation with customers
- Regularly performs lessons learned activities and feeds the results into own project and organization
- At an early stage, informs customer, management and project team of deviations from project plan
- Develop strategies for the project:
- Signs a project manager target agreement
- Develops and considers strategic targets for own project in line with responsible business manager
- Represents the project in the relevant decision boards internally and externally
- Identifies / creates additional opportunities within his/her ongoing projects
- Manage project finances:
- Lives full responsibility for the financial results according to set targets
- Examines the project proposal/order entry costing
- Ensures regular financial controlling and reporting according to regulations
- Optimizes the project gross profit
- Identifies non conformance and minimizes non-conformance costs
- Ensures that the results of risk assessments are appropriately reflected in project calculation
- Fosters change orders with good margin contribution
- Manage project team:
- Agrees targets and work packages with project team and delegates defined work packages
- Holds and seeks actively feedback (e.g.
team members, managers, customers)
- Involves the project team in all relevant project issues
- Takes responsibility for own and supports team-members' work life balance
- Supports team-members' personal development
- Fosters ownership culture within the project team
Manage stakeholders:
- Conducts stakeholder analysis and manages efficient communication with all relevant stakeholders (e.g.
customers, partners, suppliers, authorities) on equal level
- Establishes a stakeholder project impact-/mitigation study
- Actively manages and solves conflicts
Manage risk contracts and claims:
- Follows the relevant LoA process
- Assesses and manages contracts Negotiates with stakeholders on Change Requests and incorporates them into contracts
- Agrees with stakeholders the strategy for making / mitigating / defending claims
- At an early stage identifies, drives, defends and mitigates claims
- Ensures monitoring and management of risks and opportunities and early escalation
- Identifies and assesses risk factors utilizing available risk measurement tools
- Devises suitable strategies for risk mitigation
- Implements procedure to solve major issues with all necessary internal and external partners prior to project disorientation
- Monitors the progress with an integrated KPI tracking too/system to enable early warning of project disorientation
Manage compliance to standards, rules and regulations:
- Leads project members to act according to the Business Conduct Guidelines
- Follows existing rules (e.g.
tax regulations, delegation of employees, guarantees and export control)
- Sets necessary measures to ensure zero harm policy in environment, health and safety
- Sets up a framework to regular check of compliance
- Involves the necessary corporate governance units
- Complies to local standards and law of countries directly affected
- Complies to internal and international rules
- Ensures the overall quality of works, products and deliverables
**Experience**:
Managing projects: *Experience as PM with full responsibility for project results in cross-organizational projects (1 year o