Project Manager App Development / Release management

We are currently looking for a Project Manager App Development/Release Management for a project in Amsterdam area. The first contract will run until the end of June with option of extension.

Role

You will be working on the app project. You will be responsible for the country deployment and release management of the Mobile/Connectivity App. Without this resource, current PMs will be overloaded and risk delays to the delivery Roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Ability to build, establish and maintain influential relationships in order to drive effective decision making

• Understands, respects and takes account of the legitimate business and political drivers that influence stakeholder behaviour and priorities; understand implications of deliverables / activities.

• Responds to challenging priorities with a sense of urgency and pace. Bounceback-ability

• Reflect a true project picture, does not attempt to communicate only good news or what people want to hear and avoids expressing personal view. Maintain a questioning attitude.

• Looks ahead for potential problems and takes preventative or mitigating action in advance. Does not get caught in permanent ‘reactive’ mode.

• Commands the respect of peers, takes responsibility and accountability for training and mentoring of colleagues in Delivery

• Promotes integrity and will both voice and welcome views that challenge the majority view appropriately. Behave professionally

• Works with different functional and interest groups.

• Facilitates shared participation in design and delivery of programmes and projects.

• Able to negotiate between personal and organizational needs.

• Ability to plan taking a pragmatic approach to meet required deadlines

• Evaluation of proposed changes on business and project environment.

• Effective planning to enable timely deliverables.

• Good communicator and able to present information clearly in workshops and on a 1-2-1 basis.

• Ability to deliver within multiple areas of the business

Experience

• Knowledge and demonstrable experience of portfolio/project planning processes and techniques and methodology

• Experience of portfolio/project management in a multi-disciplined and commercial environment

• Knowledge of risk trade off options and their impact on project success

• Awareness of corporate, industry and professional standards in the programme/project management environment.

• Stakeholder management, negotiation and conflict management skills

• Ability to understand complex organizational designs and structures and understands how to relate these to the portfolio being managed.

• Ability to manage uncertainty and understand the impact of this on portfolio/ project.

• Experience in the telecommunications/ Broadband / cable TV industry / Business

• Leadership qualities and people management. Coaching and mentoring of team.

• Understanding of business drivers and complex organizational designs and structures, and how this relates to programmes being managed

• Will have PRINCE 2, APMP or MSP or other recognized industry qualification

• Awareness of appropriate project management methodologies, e.g. Prince 2, Agile

• Awareness of business analysis and change implementation

• Awareness of process improvement methodologies including Lean & Six Sigma.