Senior Project Manager

💼Job Title: Project Manager

👨 💻Job Type: Contract

👨 💻Who can apply: Anyone

📍Location: Brussels, Belgium

📍Language: English and French

💼Work regime: Hybrid (2-3 days/week onsite)

🔥Keywords: Azure Cloud, M365, Copilot Enablement

Sector

Our client is a prominent player in the financial sector, recognized for its comprehensive range of banking and financial services. With a global presence, it serves a diverse clientele, including individuals, corporations, and institutions. Emphasizing innovation and customer-centricity, it leverages advanced technologies to deliver tailored solutions that meet the evolving needs of its stakeholders.

Position Overview:

Program Leadership & Strategy:

• Define and articulate the internal project vision, scope, and objectives, ensuring alignment with overall business strategy.
• Act as the primary internal stakeholder for the program, representing the organization's interests with the implementation supplier.

Project Governance & Reporting:

• Establish and maintain a clear project governance framework, defining roles, responsibilities, decision-making processes, and escalation paths.
• Organize and facilitate regular Project Steering Committee (SteerCo) meetings, preparing agendas, producing minutes, and ensuring follow-up on decisions and actions.
• Define and implement escalation procedures for critical issues, risks, and scope changes, ensuring timely resolution and communication to relevant stakeholders and the SteerCo.
• Establish and maintain clear communication channels and reporting mechanisms to keep stakeholders informed of project status, risks, and issues.
• Prepare and present executive-level progress reports to the Steering Committee and senior leadership.

What you'll do:

Supplier Management:

• Oversee and manage the relationship with the selected implementation supplier, ensuring adherence to contractual agreements, budget, scope, and deliverables.
• Monitor the supplier's progress against the agreed-upon project plan and milestones.
• Facilitate effective communication and issue resolution between internal teams and the supplier.
• Project Planning & Execution:
• Develop and manage detailed work plans, including task assignments, deadlines, and dependencies for internal activities.
• Track project progress, identify deviations from the plan, and implement corrective actions.
• Manage project risks and issues, developing mitigation strategies and escalation paths.
• Oversee the integration of Microsoft 365 services (Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint), the Azure data platform components, and the Copilot enablement strategy.

Change Management & Adoption (with a M365 & Copilot focus):

• Work closely with internal communications and training teams to develop and execute a robust management strategy.
• Specifically, it drive the understanding and adoption of new capabilities across various business functions.
• Monitor user feedback and adoption rates, iterating on the management approach as needed.
• Ensure compliance with organizational policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements

What you bring:

• Proven experience (7+ years) managing complex IT programs/projects, preferably in digital transformation or enterprise software implementation within the banking or financial services sector.
• Understanding of the unique regulatory, compliance, security, and data privacy requirements prevalent in financial institutions.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid) and ability to apply them pragmatically.
• In-depth understanding of Microsoft 365 collaboration tools (Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, etc.) from an enterprise deployment and adoption perspective.
• Familiarity with Azure Cloud platform and its data platform components (e.g., Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, Power BI) and their integration with Microsoft 365.
• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale third-party implementers/integrators.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Proven ability to influence and align diverse stakeholders at all levels, from technical teams to executive leadership.
• Experience driving user adoption of new technologies in a large organization.
• Ability to identify and address resistance to change, particularly regarding AI-powered tools like Copilot.

A little about us:

Innova Solutions is a diverse and award-winning global technology services partner. We provide our clients with strategic technology, talent, and business transformation solutions, enabling them to be leaders in their field.

• Founded in 1998, headquartered in Atlanta (Duluth), Georgia.
• Employs over 50,000 professionals worldwide, with annual revenue approaching $3.0B.
• Delivers strategic technology and business transformation solutions globally.
• Operates through global delivery centers across North America, Asia, and Europe.
• Provides services for data Centre migration and workload development for cloud service providers.

Awardee of prestigious recognition including:

• Women’s Choice Awards - Best Companies to Work for Women & Millennials, 2024
• Forbes, America’s Best Temporary Staffing and Best Professional Recruiting Firms, 2023
• American Best in Business, Globe Awards, Healthcare Vulnerability Technology Solutions, 2023
• Global Health & Pharma, Best Full-Service Workforce Lifecycle Management Enterprise, 2023
• Received 3 SBU Leadership in Business Awards
• Stevie International Business Awards, Denials Remediation Healthcare Technology Solutions, 2023