Requirements

Your responsibilities

• driving multiple complex projects with a budget of approximately €1m - €3m and taking responsibility for their delivery using formal project management techniques as appropriate by facilitating communication, coordination, planning, and execution across ERGO teams and business partners
• planning and follow-up on assigned projects - including time scheduling, cost planning, resource management, quality assurance, etc.
• producing a Charter for each project based on the agreed scope, defining the budget, identifying the resources, creating the schedule, outlining the approach and suggesting the sequencing of work required to execute the project effectively
• collaborating with internal ERGO partners to troubleshoot project planning issues facilitating design, planning, and implementation workshops with internal and external stakeholders
• preparing, planning, and supervising IT projects areas of delivery, implementation, and integration of IT infrastructure and systems
• proactively managing project risks and issues; developing effective mitigation/treatment plans
• managing project meetings, schedules, milestones, and delivery
• preparing project correspondence and presentations, as needed, for status reports, executive updates, meetings, annual planning, etc.
• ensuring all project costs (actuals) are actively tracked and managed, including SOWs/Purchase Orders, contracts, internal resource assignments
• coordinating the completion of all documentation, project plans, change requests, approvals, lifecycle steps and compliance gate requests on time to ensure the project continues to align with the agreed schedule
• building and maintaining a successful relationship with teams and business partners
• travelling to our European locations of ERGO may be required

Our requirements

• proficiency in English and German is a must
• at least 7+ of experience in successfully managing the delivery of multiple IT infrastructure, workplace or application projects within a technically complex and dynamic environment, ideally in a global Finance/Insurance or regulated industry
• experience of IT Operations, Infrastructure, Networks, Engineering, Application Management, Workplace tooling and IT Support
• working knowledge of Project/Programme Management, e.g., Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), Prince2 and agile project management tools and methodologies
• strong management skills including project management, financial management, change management and facilitation
• demonstrable experience in setting up and driving successful global programmes
• demonstrated strong personal organizational skills and the ability to coordinate the efforts of others globally in the successful delivery of projects
• ability to work in complex organisation structures and tenaciously forge a path for delivery resulting in business outcomes and stakeholder benefit
• excellent project planning, budget, scoping, costing, and scheduling ability
• proven ability to create meaningful reports and summarise project health status for stakeholder presentations
• ability to drive a mixture of functional and geographic workstreams and co-ordinate step change delivery to the business in a unified way
• knowledge of infrastructure integration issues at the international level
• experience in managing distributed teams and able to work in a matrix setup
• excellent communication and presentation skills
• clarity experience desirable