Cream Consulting - Senior Infrastructure Project Manager

What is an Infrastructure Project Manager at Cream?

As an infrastructure Project Manager, you will manage, coordinate multiple medium to large IT projects, interact with many important customers to gather their requirements and follow the project from the kick off to the delivery. You can intervene in different environments and technical domains
Network LAN/WAN
Cyber-Security
Storage
Windows
Unix/Linux
Mainframe

Your tasks
Build the business case with the help of the project Sponsors
Define the benefits, scope, timing and budget of the project
Deliver the project scope on time, on budget and with the expected quality
Capacity Planning:
pro-actively identify and schedule project resources needs in strong collaboration with concerned team leaders
Ensure quality of deliverables and delivered services through a structured project management approach (project planning tools, project reporting, project management methodology, project risks management, etc)
Manage risk &
issues:
continuous follow-up of risks and issues, including mitigation actions and escalations?
Collaborate with teams across various divisions and entities
Coordinate all parties involved in the project:
both inside the organization and externally (for example IT suppliers or clients)
Maintain compliance with architecture principles and recommendations
Hand over the finalized project to the maintenance and operational teams
Contribute to the team initiatives to ensure year-to-year cost reduction of running similar infrastructure projects or improving the knowledge of the team by sharing your own experience.
Set-up proper governance bodies at all necessary levels

How do we imagine our future Consultant?
You have a Master degree or equivalent by experience
You have between 5 and 10 years of relevant experience as a Project Manager in IT projects
You are proficient using a Project Management (Prince 2 or PMBOK) and Agile (Scrum) methodologies and project management tools (MS Project or Clarity)
You are experienced in managing end to end several projects in parallel with size varying from 300 to 3,000 man-days.
You have proven experience in project/program leading, as well a good overall technical expertise in a complex environment (such as IBM Mainframe, Tandem, Unix, Windows, and advanced networking and Storage).
You have a cultural openness and adaptability, you are rigorous, customer-oriented, and you have high communications skills and analytical skills
You are fluent in French and English;
a good knowledge of Dutch might be an asset for some projects

Bonus
Your responsibilities encompassed the different aspects of these ones (Planning, Budgets, Risks &
Issues, Resources management). Previous experience of outsourced projects management is a plus.
You have experience in at least one of the following sectors:
Banking, Utilities, Pharmaceutical, Transport, Telecom