Project Manager

About the Position

R Systems is searching for an experienced Project Manager to join our team of innovators! Are you ready to make a significant impact in a dynamic and innovative environment? We are looking for talented and ambitious internet-savvy testers to join our medium-sized Agile team.

In this key role, you’ll collaborate with senior engineers to drive innovation and enhance our existing systems. This is a unique opportunity to grow your career through professional development, including certifications, workshops, and training sessions.

If you’re passionate about testing and eager to take on new challenges, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities

General Functions

• Comprehend and implement organizational project policies and procedures.
• Establish and maintain project quality.
• Identify and request to be procured project infrastructure needs.
• Develop Project Charter and obtain approval.
• Define project goals, objectives, and success criteria.
• Identify and document project constraints.
• Identify and document project assumptions.
• Identify and secure project team resources.
• Serve as a focal point for project communications.
• Develop and present Project Status Reports.

Project Planning

• Develop Project Plan. The Project Plan should include the Project Charter, Scope Statement, constraints, assumptions, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) defining project deliverables, cost estimates and project budget, major milestones, schedule, resource requirements, acquisition/procurement plans, risk analysis and response plans, project team structure and communications plan. Also included will be the deliverables acceptance criteria (quality metrics) and the acceptance process.
• Develop the supporting plans such as scope, cost, risk, schedule, quality, resource, procurement, and change management plans.
• Obtain stakeholder approval and acceptance of the Project Plan.
• Obtain organizational commitment and support for completion of project task assignments, timing, and quality.
• Establish baseline for scope, budget, and time.
• Detail in TWiki/IMS relevant information for project.
• Assure the translation of documented requirements into appropriate Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) documentation.
• Create the handover plan for stability period in collaboration with Support Team Manager Role (s).

Project Execution

• Manage and monitor day-to-day activity and provide direction to team members and supporting organizations.
• Manage to and monitor quality targets and goals (both project and product).
• Manage and monitor risk response strategies.
• Disseminate project information and maintain communication.
• Manage, or support, procurement process and contract administration requirements.

Project Control

• Develop and distribute project performance reports. Regularly review project status, evaluating performance criteria (scope, cost, schedule, and quality).
• Develop and manage corrective action plans including Change Requests (CRs) and issues management.
• Evaluate project performance and initiate change requests as required (scope, cost, schedule, or quality).
• Participate in change control board to review and approve product/project changes.
• Review project risks and establish risk response plans.
• Adjust project planning, as required, to include approved changes in scope, timing, cost, or quality after obtaining customer approval.

Project Close-out

• Obtain customer and management approval and acceptance of completed project.
• Close-out open action items.
• Develop post-implementation report and lessons learned (LL).
• Conduct LL session and develop recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Archive all project data in Alfresco.
• Recognize project team and celebrate success.

Project Human Resources (HR)

• Employee evaluation during the project and communicating to the employee.
• Employee evaluation at the end of the project and communicating to Team Manager Role (TM).
• Employee motivation.
• Administrative activities for onsite arrangements.

Requirements

• Knowledge of project management methodologies and best practices.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Scrum and Agile Methodology knowledge.
• 4+ years of experience in project management and FPP projects.
• Experience with Microsoft Project or similar tool.
• Experience with Fixed Price Projects in a hybrid model (combination of Agile and Waterfall).

We Offer

• Hybrid work policy: To promote and improve work-life balance! We’ll also provide the proper work equipment to ensure there is no digital barrier you can’t break.
• Health coverage: Stay healthy and feel always in safe hands with full access to private medical subscription.
• Professional development: Keep your knowledge fresh and achieve your professional goals, with free and unlimited access to Udemy online learning platform.
• Building a community: If you know some awesome & talented innovators, recommend them to us and you’re in for a neat referral bonus. We also hope you’ll genuinely like us enough to stick around and enjoy our long-term contribution rewards.
• People-centered offices: Our offices are not only hip and cool, with private and co-working spaces, but also situated in central city locations, so that you can get there easily. Coming to the office is also a great opportunity to enjoy some fun activities in the company of your colleagues.
• Food for thought: To feed both your body and brain, we like to organize occasional Lunch & Learn sessions. If these leave you hungry for more, you can always enroll in our mentoring & coaching sessions.
• Healthy rivalry: Running shoes are not included in your welcome kit, but you may need to get a pair ASAP because we take our (inter)company sports competitions very seriously. And if you're competitive but sports are not your forte, you can always join our hackathons or reading marathons.
• A chance to give back: If you’re a charitable soul like us you’ll enjoy planting trees, baking cakes, playing chess, crafting, or donating to a cause in our social community events.
• Lots of fun: Our awesome people may be spread across many countries & cities, but we like to team up for some fun as often as we can. Be it team buildings, parties, or other team events, we take on every opportunity to meet and strengthen our sense of community.

About the Company

R Systems is a global technology and analytics services company. We help our clients achieve speed-to-market, overcome digital barriers, and create business value with our specialized service offerings and consultative business approach.

At R Systems EU, we embrace diversity. Inclusion is a priority for us, and we are eager to foster an environment where everyone feels valued. We welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.

We speak the language of business as fluently as we do the language of technology. In other words: We speak Digital. Our goal: accelerate our clients’ digital leadership.

Some quick aspects we take pride in:

• 3,000+ EMPLOYEES WORLDWIDE
• YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION ACROSS BUSINESS SECTORS
• OFFICES IN 12 COUNTRIES IN EUROPE, US, APAC
• DELIVERY HUBS INCLUDING CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE IN ROMANIA, POLAND, MOLDOVA

R Systems is Great Place to Work™ certified

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