GELMATO
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PROJECT MANAGER
Job description
The position will be based in our office in Abidjan, Ivory cost.
As Project manager, you will have to deliver solutions in compliance with customer requirements and Gemalto proposal.
You will also drive the project by respecting customer satisfaction, committed time and quality, project profitability and Gemalto (Gemalto Global Services) interests.
Main resposibilities:
- To write the project management plan and make sure of its right monitoring;
- To apply the quality processes deployed in Services departments;
- To deliver projects and performs all relative activities (acceptance…);
- To ensure the configuration management and archives;
- To participate to quotation, schedules, feasibility study during the presales;
- To complete and validates the functional specifications with the customer;
- To report internally and externally on project progress and issues (responsible for alerts and escalations);
- To ensure handover to the support/operation team or specific internal/external interface;
- To manage and achieve revenue goals set for project(s);
- To ensure its profitability in order to make it an added-value for Gemalto;
- To manage project risks and related contingency plan;
- To manage changes (impacts and scope evolution requested by the customer or up sell) during the project;
- To manage customer interface , subcontracting, procurement (in sense of hardware, 3rd party or any other sub contracting means);
- To anticipate clients needs and proposes alternative delivery solutions or business solution in cooperation with sales team.;
- To grow long-term relationships with clients by continually seeking to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships;
- Maintain satisfaction within assigned project team and workload balancing;
- Trigger invoicing at respective milestones;
- Ensure practices related to the project are in line with Gemalto ethics and values.
Desired Skills and Experience
Education:
- Computer Science Engineer/Master’s Degree Engineer/Bachelor degree in Computer Sciences.
Experience:
- ≥ 3years as Development Engineer (development, validation and/or system integration)
- ≥ 2 years in technical supervising (specification, design and team)
- ≥ 3years as Project Manager
Cometencies:
- Capacity to drive profitability & successfully a complex customer project execution demonstrated;
- Risk Management;
- Procurement management;
- Legal Aspect of Software;
- Contract Management;
- Pre-sales skills;
- Telecom business knowledge.
Interpersonal skills:
- Planning & Organisation
- Leadership, listening
- Decision making, initiative, and risk taking
- Knowledge sharing, and team spirit
- Negotiation skills.
Languages:
- Fluent English,
- Good level of French.
About this company
We enable our clients to offer trusted and convenient digital services to billions of individuals. We have over 10,000 employees based in 43 countries and had annual revenues of €2.2 billion in 2012.
Gemalto delivers on the growing demands for personal mobile services, identity protection, payment security, authenticated online services, cloud computing access, modern transportation, e-healthcare and e-government services. Gemalto does this by providing secure software, a wide range of secure personal devices, and managed services to many of the world's leading wireless operators, banks, enterprises and government agencies.
We design and produce embedded software and devices such as electronic passports and identity cards, two-factor authentication devices for online protection, smart credit/debit and contactless payment cards, as well as subscriber identification modules (SIM) and universal integrated circuit cards (UICC) in mobile phones. We also supply wireless modules and machine identification modules (MIM) for M2M. To operate these solutions and remotely manage the software and confidential data contained in the secure devices Gemalto provides server platforms, consulting, training, and managed services to help its customers achieve their goals.
As the use of Gemalto’s software and secure devices increases with the number of people interacting in the digital and wireless world, the Company is poised to thrive over the coming years.
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