Accountabilities
- Planning & execution
- Create and execute project plans
- Revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
- Manage day-to-day progress of project(s) and scope
- Consistently apply the TomTom project methodology
- Minimizes risk on project and employ the standard TomTom risk management approach
- Ensures project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately
- Maintain, monitor and communicate schedules, capacity (hours) and other key figures, to stakeholders and the project team
- Identify resources needed and organizes team to meet project responsibilities
- Communication
- Organize and facilitate regular project team and stakeholder status meetings
- Deliver engaging, informative, well-organized presentations in review and planning sessions
- Resolve and/or escalate issues in a timely fashion
- Teamwork
- Consistently acknowledge and appreciate each team member's contributions
- Motivate team to work together in the most efficient manner
- Keep track of lessons learned and share those lessons with team members
- Act as topic expert depending on individual domain(s) of expertise
- Actively contribute to continuous improvements in project methodology and business process in the organization
- Act as a topic product owner triggering process and other improvements across the organization
- Key figures: Actively manage the departmental key figure framework and the assigned key figures
- Other: Performs other tasks as assigned to support line and project management
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Knowledge, skills and competencies
- Knowledge and experience
- College/Bachelor or Master degree preferably in business or business-related field (IT or geographical) or equivalent work experience
- Knowledge of maps technical processes and associated tools, software and specifications.
- More than 3 years' work experience in business related field, supplier/customer management preferred
- Skills
- English and Japanese
- Knowledge of project management techniques like PMI or Agile
- Excellent problem solving and analytical, planning, facilitation, administrative, and critical thinking skills
- Ability to exchange technical and statistical information using effective verbal and written communication skills
- This job requires effective interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to be sensitive, adaptable, professional, and articulate when dealing with others (multicultural)
- Advanced knowledge of various computer applications including Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel)
- Ability to develop thorough understanding of TomTom's core databases, data interdependencies, technical and business processes
- Solid decision-making skills; ability to work independently as well as contribute to the departmental team
Differentiating factors
- Complexity of the job: The project manager has by nature a wide range of responsibilities. This can vary between a wide range of topics/output requirements to be handled over a limited geography to a limited range of topics/output requirements to be handled over a wide range of geographies. Global processes do exist for the majority of the activities to be executed, but always a big dose of common sense is required to make sure the projects are realized successfully. Project Manager will have gradually more challenging complex projects to deal with.
- Autonomy: High degree of autonomy.
- Scope of the job: Focus can be departmental, sub-regional, regional, global, across various product units and even supplier/customer facing