Senior Project Manager - São Paulo
What will you do?
Manage large Customer projects or workpackage of very large project (Category A projects including more software, more services and more sustainability, with organizational and technical complexity, multi-business, high level of risk, complex contractual context...) following applicable company policies and processes (main one being CPP: Customer Project Process).
Lead functionally the project team (>10 people) to ensure full customer satisfaction and financial performance and delegate sub-projects to PMs. He relies on PMO expert and document manager to drive the project KPI's : more software, more services and more sustainability.
He focuses on stakeholder management and guiding the team.
Manage the relationship with the customer and third parties within project scope and accountable for the execution of the project in line with the contract.
Contribute to project managers community of practice.
Act as sales agent for OPEX service portfolio
As a Sr. Project Manager for dedicated VIP client, he manages a portfolio of solution execution VIP projects (Cat.B/A). He drives project managers involved with this customer and act as mentor. Sr. Project Manager is overall P&L responsible and ensure consistency of all projects in terms of management, scope, communication. He acts as mentor to PMs.
Key responsibilities / activities
- Set an execution strategy at the start of the project and implement it throughout the project lifecycle
- Organize & manage the project team and suppliers. Monitor their progress in line with Project plan (scope, schedule and budget) till completion. Ensure effective communication within the team for best team coordination and motivation."
- Protect Schneider Electric interests within the frame of the contract untill the end of contractual obligations
- Monitor, control & report project execution status, progress & KPIs. Ensure full & effective reporting to management (reports, project reviews, risk escalation reviews...). Alert the management about project events impacting project performance or compliance with governance principles and keep the leadership on the actions related to them"
- Perform on regular basis risk and opportunity assessment and implement action plan to mitigate risks and maximise opportunities.
- Develop customer intimacy (including end-user if applicable), drive all communication with customer. Ensure highest level of customer satisfaction throughout the lifecycle of the project to prepare ground for futur business. Strategic approach to capture additional business for our company directly or not related to the project especially linked to digital and Service as per Company vision. System oriented mindset (Power, automation)"
- Take full accountability and control over project profitability (sales, margin & cash) including forecasting. Ensure timely revenue recognition as per forecast. Implement profitability improvement actions. Satisfy entity and country expectations on sales, margin and cash collection.
- Ensure project team and suppliers are executing the project in full compliance with Schneider-Electric processes, quality instructions and governance principles. Take all necessary actions to correct any deviations or quality issues occurring during project execution.
- Delegates sub-projects to PMs, stir and coordinate
- Working closely with Service teams; identify, develop and address additional Service CAPEX and OPEX opportunities including cybersecurity services
- Contribute to PM Community of Practice within his Execution Center and globally within Execution Center network. Identify, formalise, share and promote lessons learned and best practices.
- Strong monitoring of HSE policity to all team members and sub-contractors especially for site activities and travels
- Manage Cybersecurity risk and actions linked to cybersecurity with all team members (cyberbadge) and suppliers/service providers/sub-contractors.
- Act as mentor within Application Center PM team
- Ensures Customer and Segment team satisfaction, profitability of all projects in portfolio for dedicated VIP client, successful project execution and project control including risk and opportunity management"
- Collaborate closely with Segment team to identify and contribute to project pipeline and set-up
- Compile experience on first of a kind solution and get apply best practice to following projects
- Provide senior level customer interface when needed
Who will you report to?
Within a Global or Regional Application Center, as part of a Project Management team, he reports to the head of execution of the center
What qualifications will make you successful for this role?
- Bachelor's degree
- Masters degree is a plus
- PMI Certificate
- English - advanced/fluent
- Portuguese - fluent
- Spanish - advanced/ fluent
- Minimum experience of 8 years managing Data Center Projects
- Experience in Tendering (offer) is a Plus
- Cross functional and cross border experience
- Strong communication skills, effective in a cross-cultural environment to foster collaboration toward a common goal
- Proven leadership skills in project context focusing despite stress and headwinds on business
- Ability to understand, influence & convince in a complex matrix organization, use strong internal and external networking to develop additional business
- Good digital background, awareness of ecostruxure taylored solution to customer and able to act as best sales agent
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