Senior project manager

Contract type: CDI

Welcome to Digital Solutions SA!

Founded in 2016 and located in the heart of the Jura, in Porrentruy, Digital Solutions SA helps companies and institutions face digital challenges through the integration of new technologies.

As an IT integrator and service provider, we help our customers to innovate and develop their new digital products.

We’re already present in Porrentruy, Basel, Lausanne, Geneva, Martigny and soon in Fribourg, Bern, Zurich and Delémont.

Combining agility, innovation and performance, we provide a team of highly qualified engineers tailored to the specific needs of each of our customers and prospects.

We are working on three areas:

  1. Integration and innovation
  2. Software development
  3. Robotic Process Automation

SEARCH PROFILE: Senior Project Manager

  • Occupancy rate: 80%.
  • Duration: indefinite, but maximum 3 years
  • Desired start date: June 1ᵉʳ, 2024

YOUR MISSIONS :

  • Articulate clear, synthetic project mandates that align teams and stakeholders with the objectives to be achieved
    • Understand the issues to be addressed by the project
    • Understand organizational dynamics to structure committees (Steering, Operational, etc.)
    • Identify the stakeholders and resources required for project success
    • Articulate ambitious, achievable goals and measures to assess their attainment
    • Detail critical milestones (including HERMES phase milestones)
    • Conduct project risk analyses and develop mitigation plans
    • Optimizing the use of financial resources
  • Develop project roadmaps to achieve validated objectives
    • Describe and analyze the sequence of tasks required (WBS)
    • Estimating and planning tasks
    • Allocating resources
    • Keep up to date
  • Managing project risks
    • Anticipate risks to project objectives
    • Develop and implement mitigation plans
    • Keeping risks up to date
  • Leading steering and operational committees
    • Schedule committees at frequencies adapted to the situation of each project
    • Ensure the participation of the necessary stakeholders
    • Share agendas and session objectives with participants prior to sessions based on stakeholder expectations
    • Conduct sessions in a structured manner to respect everyone’s time
    • Ensure timely follow-up of the project
  • Formalize decisions, including modification decisions (in the HERMES sense)
    • Articulate the decisions to be taken by formulating the advantages and disadvantages of each option, including the impacts of not taking a decision
    • Manage changes (scope, objectives, deadlines, resources, etc.)
  • Supporting the human impact of projects
    • Analyze the impact of the transformation
    • Establish plans to support individuals in their transformation
  • Maintain up-to-date repositories reporting on the progress and health of each project
    • Update repositories at required frequencies

QUALITIES REQUIRED

  • Ability to adapt to different contexts
  • Demonstrate leadership, commitment and dynamism.
  • Ability to listen, analyze, synthesize and communicate.
  • Ability to communicate appropriately to different audiences and articulate complex concepts simply.
  • Be able to negotiate with management and project stakeholders.
  • Conflict and crisis management skills.
  • The ability to innovate and adapt
  • Ability to show initiative
  • Ability to work under stress
  • Ability to work as part of a team and share knowledge.
  • Have a constructive attitude to change.

TRAININGS :

  • Master’s degree in computer science, EPF engineering diploma or equivalent
  • Project management certification desired (e.g. HERMES, PMP, Prince2 Practionner, IPMA C/B/A)

SKILLS :

Core competencies

  • At least 6 years’ experience in project management, supervising teams of at least 5 people,
  • Expertise in project portfolio management and associated tools (MS Project), including mastery of a project management methodology repository (e.g. Hermes, PMI, Prince2, or IPMA),
  • Ability to rapidly increase knowledge of technical (EDM/database migration), functional (ergonomic improvements) and business (legal changes) project issues.
  • Simultaneous management of several projects (HERMES a plus) within a company or government organization.
  • Ability to articulate clear, synthetic project mandates that align teams and stakeholders with the objectives to be achieved.
  • Ability to develop project roadmaps to achieve objectives.
  • Ability to structure, mobilize and coordinate project teams to carry out the tasks required to achieve objectives.
  • Ability to maintain a climate of trust within project teams by taking needs/feedback into consideration.
  • Ability to communicate with internal and external stakeholders, and in particular to maintain a climate of trust by taking needs/feedback into consideration and adapting one’s discourse according to the interlocutor.
  • Ability to communicate appropriately to different audiences and articulate complex concepts simply.
  • Ability to federate project teams and stakeholders to obtain sustainable decisions.

Additional skills

  • Experience of managing development projects in an agile environment involving several teams.
  • Ability to identify, prioritize and mitigate opportunities and risks, and to assess and discuss project portfolio commitments with stakeholders.
  • Certification and/or successful experience in organizational change management.
  • Ability to structure, coordinate and conduct collaborative workshops, including online.
  • Skills in quality monitoring and PMO principles.
  • Relational, communication and conflict management skills.
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Be certified in the Scrum Master or Product Owner roles,
  • Experience in public administration,
  • Master the fundamentals of taxation.
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