Cream Consulting - Senior Infrastructure Project Manager

• WHAT IS CREAM ALL ABOUT ?
• We could be a Cream Factory, a cooking blog or even a detective agency...
• But in reality, we are a Business & Technology consulting company, active in large organizations and industry leaders in Banking, Insurance, Telecom, Energy, & Transport.
• The Cream recipe

• 1/3 Personal development - 1/3 Collective intelligence - 1/3 Intrapreneurship - Bonus ingredient: some passionate colleagues :) Your future projects

As an infrastructure Project Manager, you will manage, coordinate multiple medium to large IT projects, interact with many important customers to gather their requirements and follow the project from the kick off to the delivery. You can intervene in different environments and technical domains : Network LAN/WAN, Cyber-Security, Storage, Windows, Unix/Linux or Mainframe. Your tasks will be :

Build the business case with the help of the project Sponsors

Define the benefits, scope, timing and budget of the project

Deliver the project scope on time, on budget and with the expected quality

Capacity Planning: pro-actively identify and schedule project resources needs in strong collaboration with concerned team leaders

Ensure quality of deliverables and delivered services through a structured project management approach (project planning tools, project reporting, project management methodology, project risks management, etc)

Manage risk & issues: continuous follow-up of risks and issues, including mitigation actions and escalations

Collaborate with teams across various divisions and entities

Coordinate all parties involved in the project: both inside the organization and externally (for example IT suppliers or clients)

Maintain compliance with architecture principles and recommendations

Hand over the finalized project to the maintenance and operational teams

Contribute to the team initiatives to ensure year-to-year cost reduction of running similar infrastructure projects or improving the knowledge of the team by sharing your own experience

Set-up proper governance bodies at all necessary levels

What do we expect from our Consultant ?

You have a Master degree or equivalent by experience

You have between 5 and 10 years of relevant experience as a Project Manager in IT projects

You are proficient using a Project Management (Prince 2 or PMBOK) and Agile (Scrum) methodologies and project management tools (MS Project or Clarity)

You are experienced in managing end to end several projects in parallel with size varying from 300 to 3,000 man-days

You have proven experience in project/program leading, as well a good overall technical expertise in a complex environment (such as IBM Mainframe, Tandem, Unix, Windows, and advanced networking and Storage)

You have a cultural openness and adaptability, you are rigorous, customer-oriented, and you have high communications skills and analytical skills

You are fluent in French and English; a good knowledge of Dutch might be an asset for some projects

Bonus

Your responsibilities encompassed the different aspects of these ones (Planning, Budgets, Risks & Issues, Resources management). Previous experience of outsourced projects management is a plus

You have experience in at least one of the following sectors: Banking, Utilities, Pharmaceutical, Transport, Telecom

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