Project Manager - Pricing & Revenue Management

Job specification:

• Deliver major JDA projects to time, cost and quality; ensuring JDA achieve minimum gross margins as agreed at the outset of the project
• Lead from the front project teams in the resolution of customer project issues, escalating to appropriate parties as needed
• Collaborates with appropriate JDA resources on customer's projects
• Helps validate and produce appropriate baseline project plans and templates
• Assists in generating Statement of Work and customer proposal documents
• Works with appropriate parties to plan project resource requirements
• Provide guidance, feedback, coaching, and developmental experiences to project team members
• Assesses project performance and communicates lessons learned to increase institutional knowledge
• Ensures project team adheres to JDA policies, procedures, methodologies and quality standards
• Manages services engagements including interactions with client project team and client executives
• Addresses all project issues including budget, timeline, accounts receivable, scope changes, software functionality and technolog
• Provides regular project communication and status reporting
• Manages project quality to ensure customer satisfaction
• Builds collaborative relationship that increases customer's perception of the value JDA brings to their business and expands future business opportunities
• Keeps individual expenses within budget
• Records billable time to customer, as appropriate
• Records cost-transfer time to other JDA teams, as appropriate
• Escalates issues that may have negative financial impact
• Manages project budget
• Reviews billing for all assigned projects
• Maximizes margin on service engagements
• Ensures supporting project documentation is in order and submitted timely

Requirements:

• Project management work experience
• Experience managing large software implementation projects required and key project leadership / project management
• PMP or Prince 2 certification and must be willing and able to adapt and adopt to JDA project methodology and processes
• Demonstrated leadership experience in software consulting, implementation or development projects
• Knowledgeable about project management best practices -
• Demonstrated experience presenting and interfacing with C-Level Executives is a plus
• Skilled at leading and coordinating across diverse teams to achieve desired outcomes
• Ability to resolve complex problems with little to no guidance
• Ideally experience of multi-tier resource delivery models (on-shore, near-shore, off-shore)
• Track record in project managing multiple software application projects concurrently is desirable
• Proven experience of scope and risk management
• Experience with Microsoft Project
• High level understanding of software and infrastructure -- ideally from a major enterprise software house
• High level understanding of software development processes desirable -- Agile , Scrum
• High Level understanding of Integration desirable
• Excellent written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills in English
• Professional in attitude and appearance to meet with clients
• Ability to handle multiple and changing priorities and multiple customers, having a proactive hands on approach
• Excellent questioning and listening skills, with strong influencing skills
• Approachable and able to communicate effectively at all levels, with excellent relationship skills
• Possess coaching skills to share information and knowledge effectively with customers and colleagues
• Ability to organise personal work time around client availability, travel requirements and other constraints in order to meet the assigned deliverables within agreed time/cost constraints and client expectations
• Motivated, confident, self-sufficient and able to contribute from day one
• Travel required to customer site or headquarters which could be based anywhere in the UK or Main-land Europe. 20 - 25% travel on average to attend customer site meetings Mon-Fri (occasional weekends by exception)

We offer:

• Challenging job in an international environment
• Possibility of further development
• Benefit Package
• Competitive salary