IT Project Manager

at  WS Audiology EMEA

Driven by the passion to improve quality of people’s lives, WS Audiology continues to grow as market leader in the hearing aid industry. With our commitment to increase penetration in an underserved hearing care market, we want to accelerate our business transformation in order to reach more people, more effectively.
Overview
Every day our 12,500 colleagues in 130 markets help millions of people regain and benefit from the miracle of hearing. Going beyond together, we achieve annual revenues of around EUR 2.3 billion. Our portfolio of technologies spans the full spectrum of hearing care, from distinct hearing brands and digital platforms to managed care, hearing centers and diagnostics locations.
Information Technology forms the lynchpin of businesses the world over and success can often rest squarely on its shoulders. We are chiefly concerned with aligning our objectives with the company’s goal, establishing governance, managing risk, and constantly seeking for performance excellence. We are delivery-focused, ensuring that our organization successfully turns inputs to outputs in an efficient manner.

Responsibilities:

• Work with global stakeholders to define project mission, goals, tasks, dependencies and resource quality
• Lead projects from requirements gathering through deployment to ensure successful delivery within agreed timeline, budgets, resources and quality, mitigating any risks
• Build and develop project team to ensure maximum performance, providing guidance, direction and motivation
• Work with both internal cross-functional teams and external resources on successful project completion
• Lead Steering Committee meetings with senior stakeholders
• Build strong relationship with global stakeholders and effectively use metrics and data visualization to report progress and updates on project status
• Report project outcomes and /or risks to appropriate management channels as needed
• Ensure proper documentation.
• Business travel up to 50% will be expected.

Requirements

• Degree from Business Management / Information Technology or any relevant disciplines
• Minimum 5 -8 years of relevant IT project management experience, ideally in an international environment working on global projects
• Experience in managing medium to large scale projects is preferred
• Experience with business transformation projects will be advantageous
• Proven capability to manage external vendors, as well as work with internal teams to achieve project objectives within agreed timeline, budget and resources
• Technical certifications such as PMP, or Prince2 will be advantageous.

Personal competencies

• Effective team manager and leader
• Excellent presentation skills, as well as outstanding interpersonal skills to work with all levels of management
• Responsible, organized, meticulous in their work
• Possess a high sense of urgency in problem solving
• Takes pride in embracing the challenge of complex project management

WHO WE ARE

At WS Audiology, we provide innovative hearing aids and hearing health services.
Together with our 12,000 colleagues in 130 countries, we invite you to help unlock human potential by bringing back hearing for millions of people around the world.
With us, you will become part of a truly global company where we care for one another, welcome diversity and celebrate our successes.
Sounds wonderful? We can’t wait to hear from you.
WS Audiology is an equal-opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self

• Work with global stakeholders to define project mission, goals, tasks, dependencies and resource quality
• Lead projects from requirements gathering through deployment to ensure successful delivery within agreed timeline, budgets, resources and quality, mitigating any risks
• Build and develop project team to ensure maximum performance, providing guidance, direction and motivation
• Work with both internal cross-functional teams and external resources on successful project completion
• Lead Steering Committee meetings with senior stakeholders
• Build strong relationship with global stakeholders and effectively use metrics and data visualization to report progress and updates on project status
• Report project outcomes and /or risks to appropriate management channels as needed
• Ensure proper documentation.
• Business travel up to 50% will be expected