Senior Project Leader

Mission Overview

We are seeking a Senior Project Leader for a consultancy mission at a client site, representing Keystone Solutions. You will be responsible for the operational management of a complex IT project in the HR domain, involving multiple institutions and numerous business and technical stakeholders.

After a pre-study phase, the project is entering its initiation and execution phase, focusing on refining the scope, structuring the organization, and managing various phases of execution until the solution is implemented.

Responsibilities

As a Project Leader, you will be responsible for the operational management of the project under the guidance of a Chain Project Leader and a Chain Service Manager. You will ensure the smooth running of the project and coordinate daily with various stakeholders and teams. Your main responsibilities will include:

• Managing the scope, planning, development budget, development resources and their effectiveness, risks, dependencies, and quality of development.
• Establishing budgets in collaboration with the Chain Project Leader.
• Creating schedules considering task assignments, workload, priorities, planned budgets, and quality expectations.
• Monitoring project progress (quality, processes, costs).
• Ensuring compliance with quality standards and imposed methodologies.
• Adapting the schedule to changing situations.
• Tracking the budget and timely reporting of any overruns.
• Maintaining daily contact with stakeholders regarding the progress of ongoing projects.
• Providing effective reporting.
• Discussing potential issues with team members and management.
• Contributing to the decision-making process regarding project initiation.
• Proactively identifying and reporting team staffing needs.
• Defining operational objectives for the department, service, or section in line with strategic goals, communicating these objectives, and collaboratively defining individual goals with team members.
• Motivating the development team and fostering team spirit through daily interactions, addressing their needs and concerns, relaying relevant information from management, and organizing team activities.

Essential Skills

• Proven experience in managing complex IT projects, ideally in a technical .NET context.
• Mastery of key project management dimensions: scope, planning, budget, resources, risks, quality, and governance.
• Experience managing projects involving multiple stakeholders with differing interests and priorities.
• Ability to lead a decentralized project team with members and expertise spread across different organizations or stakeholders.
• Capability to transform a high-level scope into a concrete, structured, and manageable project organization.
• Understanding of business challenges while possessing sufficient knowledge of technical aspects, including system integrations and dependencies.
• Team management skills: effectively informing team members, monitoring daily activities, discussing issues, providing guidance, and assisting in defining individual objectives.
• Ability to understand deliverable content and manage analyses: examining business needs, analyzing problems, and collaborating with business owners.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent communication, coordination, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Autonomous, structured, pragmatic, and results-oriented profile.
• Good active knowledge of French and Dutch.

Assets

• Experience with system/application migration or integration projects.
• Significant experience in projects conducted in a convergence context between organizations (mergers, acquisitions) or technologies (phasing out a mainframe, replacing COBOL with .NET, and supporting team skillsets).
• Experience leading a .NET development team.
• Knowledge of standards, governance processes, and basic tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Having obtained a PRINCE2 certification or equivalent is an asset.
• Good knowledge of the two main national languages is a significant advantage.

Profile

A Senior Project Leader capable of creating structure in a complex environment, facilitating collaboration among stakeholders from different organizations, and maintaining a balance between business objectives, technical constraints, governance, and operational execution. A strong ability to manage stakeholders in a governmental or large enterprise context is a must.

Duration: As soon as possible - 31/12/2028 26 months • (full time)

Skills required

• .NET FrameworkConfirmé
• AgileConfirmé
• JIRA & Confluence (projectopvolging & kennisbeheer)Confirmé
• Prince 2Confirmé
• UMLConfirmé

Language requirements

• NéerlandaisLangue maternelle
• AnglaisConnaissance active
• FrançaisLangue maternelle