MAIN MISSIONS
PRE-SALES – FRAMING COMMITMENTS – CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
- Taking part in the pre-sales phase with Commercial Engineers to understand and incorporate project issues and risks and define the best solutions
- Advising, supporting and guiding customers in their choice of solution and project management by seeking to provide them with the most added value
- Drawing up commercial proposals and taking part in customer support, playing a key role in pre-sales
- Negotiating and validating the financial, technical, etc. constituent parts of the contract with customers and any addenda related to changes in objectives and scope previously discussed.
- Ensuring compliance with contractual clauses and managing potential customer disputes
- Being a vector of commercial development: detecting and qualifying commercial opportunities by anticipating customers’ demand
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- Defining and controlling the service commitments of projects (scope, cost, time, quality)
- Defining and managing the success criteria of a project
- Anticipating the technical and financial risks of the project: defining the action plans to be carried out in order to maintain critical paths and alleviate project risks
- Managing performance and contributing to the profitability of his/her projects
- Managing project staff schedules and arbitrating resources according to priorities
- Leading delivery of important work, missions or projects
- Billing
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Preparing and directing steering committees: validating presentations and reports (writing them if necessary)
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Participating in project governance meetings/bodies and carrying out project reporting: launching projects, reports, etc.
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Performing financial follow-up and ensuring that billing is done on time
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Coordinating the different contacts involved in the project (suppliers, subcontractors, etc.) : managing the staff working on the projects
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Reporting to management
MANAGEMENT
Identifying the resources needed to complete projects and arbitrating assignments between projects
- Ensuring that the activities carried out by his/her staff are properly carried out (controlling and supervising the project staff)
- Providing advice and assistance to Project Managers in defining the technical and human resources necessary to properly conduct projects; providing support to production staff during complex activities
- Assessing and supervising employees from a functional standpoint: defining training plans to develop staff in technological, functional and methodological terms
- Taking part in a management activity of his/her organisation (staffing, co-production, talent committee, etc.)
- Actively participating in the capitalisation and industrialisation of best project practices within his/her organisation.
- Implementing HR processes (yearly performance review, recruitment, etc.)
- Acting as a communication relay
DEVELOPEMENT OF OFFERS
- Helping to create and develop new offers
- Helping to formalise them and promote them from a marketing standpoint
RELATIONAL INTERFACES
INTERNAL
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PM
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Expert
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Business Analyst
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Delivery Manager
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Other entities (H2I, HC, etc.)
EXTERNAL
- Customers
- Third-party suppliers
PROFILE
INITIAL TRAINING
- 4- or 5-year higher education diploma (MIAGE, Engineering school)
DESIRED EXPERIENCE
- 8 to 12 years in project management and team management
KEY BUSINESS SKILLS
- Be able to create, manage and maintain customer and supplier relationships
- Understand the environment and customer issues
- Be able to structure and draft professional texts (specs, procedures, proposals, reports, etc.)
- Act with vision and motivate
- Implement a project methodology and carry out operational management of a project
- Be able to negotiate (arguments- presentation- reassurance-closing)
- Support and develop people
- Be able to influence and guide