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Summary

• Canonical Project Managers are responsible for ensuring project success through owning, driving, communicating and respectfully engaging all stakeholders, valuing integrity and accountability.
• Within a portfolio of projects with complex and changing software technologies, customer and partner satisfaction is only possible because of exceptional Project Managers who know how to respect and engage all stakeholders.

What we are looking for in you

• The successful Project Manager will have solid IT project management experience in a software engineering and/or information technology field, excellent written and verbal communications skills in English and experience leading cross-cultural, remote and global project teams and customers. You will be able to “make things happen” with a professional approach and effective negotiation techniques. You have Agile expertise and Project Management certification.

If this sounds like you and you have experience in the areas below, we’d love to hear from you:

• Enterprise IT Programs
• Process Improvement
• Software Engineering Project Management

Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring

• Leading diverse, remote project teams
• Experience with cross-cultural and multi-continent projects
• Hiring, managing teams and helping to develop team skills
• SW engineering and IT project management
• Driving project success while managing risks
• Experience in building collaborative internal and external partnerships
• Solid commercial skills; experience in dealing with contracts
• Effective negotiator, comfortable in a customer facing roles for complex projects
• Degree level education in Computer Science or STEM field, ideally also an MBA or similar qualification
• Able to travel 6-8 weeks a year, up to two weeks at a time, sometimes internationally
• Flexibility to work non-standard hours when required, in support of a worldwide sales and project team