Project Director (Contract Role)

We are hiring for Project Director for our largest customer in Malaysia

One Year renewable contract

• Responsible for planning, organizing, managing, controlling, and communicating on all aspects of a project within the time, cost and quality thresholds set
• Facilitates the development of project artefacts and/or any other documentation in collaboration with the project team
• Facilitates the identification of project resource requirements and works with Project Resource Scheduler to define and construct project teams
• Facilitates regular core team meetings to review risks, issues and monitors project health and progress
• Creation of regular Project Status Reports and distributes them accordingly
• Manages and controls costs to drive financially healthy projects
• Responsible for managing large sized projects (as described in the Project Profile Matrix) supporting the Delivery Lead in customer engagements for SoftwareOne
• Identifies and develops new opportunities within current project supporting early qualification and opportunity assessment
• Provides training to team members and assists them with their professional development
• Achieves operational objectives by contributing information and preparing and completing action plans; implementing productivity, quality, and customer-service standards
• Responsible for leading and supporting the project team as required on all live projects
• Guarantees performance of the teams, and ensure that guidelines client's and organization's frameworks are met
• Responsible for directly managing multiple projects within a Service Practice
• Manages Senior-level client delivery relationships and resolves conflicts
• Manages knowledge sharing within the SoftwareOne PMO community
• Ensures team members support knowledge sharing and reuse requirements of project
• Works with Delivery Leads in project risk management and delivery of projects
• Works with Solution Sales on presales activities and getting the scope finalized as required/requested
• Promotes pmOne services to practice leads/country managers when required
• Participates in upselling and presales activities where the appropriate opportunities present themselves
• Supports project reporting activities
• Completes all processes as part of project delivery in supporting systems such as PSA as required
• Provides support, advice and guidance to other Project Managers or Project Team members

Experienced in usage of a project management tool or solution as part of Project Delivery

Strong knowledge of practicing PMI or Prince2 based project methodologies

Strong knowledge in implementing complex IT solutions

Experienced in working in a consulting environment

Has experience of project financial accounting

Experienced in selling solutions to business decision-makers by reinforcing the value of the SoftwareOne Services to the customer's overall business pain and/or strategic opportunities

Experienced in determining strategies to bring the organization forward, setting goals, creating and implementing action placs, evaluating processes

Experienced in developing new and unique ways to improve operations of the organization and creating new opportunities

Relevant Experience

10 years in a Project Management role with a minimum of 3 years experience in a Senior Project Manager L1 role or equivalent

Holding a PMP/Prince 2 Practitioner certification

Experience preferably from a Systems Integrator or a large service organization (ability to manages internal as well as external resources with a team size more than 20 people).