Description

We currently have a vacancy for an Asset Management Assistant fluent in English, to offer his/her services as an expert who will be based in The Hague, the Netherlands. The work will be carried out either on the company’s premises or on-site at customer premises. In the context of the first assignment, the successful candidate will be integrated and closely cooperate with a major client’s IT team, on-site.

Your Tasks

• Manage and be accountable for a series of projects with integrating internal developed components and services and with external services;
• Support the programme manager in all project dimensions when required and follow the guidance provided by PMO, Head of Team and the Stream Leader;
• Strengthen project governance implementation through chairing meetings when needed, checkpoints and boards of assigned projects, keeping stakeholders informed and ensuring appropriate decision making;
• Ensure that all relevant project management documentation, including a realistic plan and Gantt chart agreed among the project stakeholders, is in place in the project management system at any given time;
• Manage the implementation of information systems to meet identified business needs, acquiring and utilising the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales, and quality;
• Track and monitor project implementation in accordance with the scope, budget and person days specified in the project implementation documentation;
• Participate in identification and handling of dependencies, issues and risks affecting the project;
• Monitor of the budget and resources available to the project, reporting to the Stream Lead and support PMO undertaking steps to correct deviations either through the financial procedures or through resource management processes;
• Supervise the delivery of products and services by external suppliers in accordance with the contracts in place, addressing and resolving issues and risks related to the relationship with those suppliers;
• Facilitate PMO initiatives on estimating costs, timescales and resource requirements for yearly demand cycle.

Requirements

• University Degree and at least 9 years of experience in Project Management;
• Managed minimum 5 end to end projects involving Commercial-off-the-Shelf software deployments, Cloud deployment, incremental software delivery, ICT infrastructure deployment, and/or service integration with external parties;
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in working in an international environment and/or 2 years in EU institutions or bodies;
• Minimum of 5 years of experience working in a highly regulated environment, preferably in a public/government environment;
• More than 5 years of experience in standard project management tools such as MS Project;
• Experience managing cloud (implementation) projects and delivering cloud services effectively, ensuring they meet client requirements and align with business goals;
• Good knowledge of planning and estimation techniques;
• Good knowledge of MS office including PowerPoint timelines and schedule visuals;
• Strong foundation in IT and basic cloud concepts. Familiarity with different cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and providers (AWS, Azure, GCP);
• PM Certification such as PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMI PMP, PM2 Certified or similar;
• Excellent command of the English language.