Senior project manager

Location: Lausanne
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. We are an IT integrator and service provider, helping our customers with their innovation strategy and the development of new digital products. We are present in Porrentruy, Basel, Lausanne, Geneva, Martigny and soon in Fribourg, Bern, Zürich and Delémont.

Our mission: To combine agility, innovation and performance to provide a team of highly qualified engineers, meeting the targeted needs of our customers and prospects in the following areas:

  1. Integration and innovation
  2. Software development
  3. Intelligent automation

Job offer: Senior Project Manager

Occupancy rate: 100%
Duration: CDI

Training :

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

Core competencies :

  • At least 6 years’ experience in managing multidisciplinary projects.
  • Mastery of project management techniques and tools, planning and financial monitoring tools, risk analysis and project quality management.
  • 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).
  • 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 identify, gather, structure and convey essential information to internal and external stakeholders.
  • 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.
  • Ability to negotiate with internal and external teams to meet needs and help achieve objectives.

Important skills :

  • Experience of managing development projects in an agile environment involving several teams.
  • Ability to work in a team and share knowledge.
  • 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.
  • Successful experience with the State of Geneva and knowledge of OCSIN tools, methods and processes (especially project management) (e.g. JIRA, SharePoint).
  • Relational, communication and conflict management skills.
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to rapidly gain knowledge of technical (EDM/database migration), functional (improvements/upgrades) and business (value creation, regulatory/legal adaptations) project issues.
  • Autonomy, ability to take initiative.

Optional skills :

  • Be certified as a Scrum Master or Product Owner.
  • Knowledge of Service Now low code.
  • Successful experience with the State of Geneva.
  • Experience in public administration.

Qualifications :

  • Ability to adapt to OCSIN and State 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.
  • Be able to innovate, embrace change and adapt.
  • Ability to show initiative.
  • Ability to work under stress.
  • Willingness to work as part of a team and share knowledge.
  • Have a constructive attitude to change.
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