Senior Project Manager (Remote)

Your Responsibilities:

• Lead projects from initiation to completion, assuring project implementation in time, budget and quality
• Plan, review and monitor the contract with the client.
• Ensure necessary resources and use formal processes and tools to manage resources, budgets, changes, and risks.
• Manage projects to ensure customer satisfaction and meet contractual obligations relating to specifications, quality, cost, and schedule.
• Monitoring of billing milestones. Monitoring of the KPIs of the contracts.
• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions.
• Able to deliver projects in all Kapsch portfolio (tolling, traffic, clean air zones, ITS …)
• Escalates to Program Steering Committee in case of major program deviations / risk identified
• Leads contractual subcontractor negotiations
• Leads contractual negotiations with the customer
• Acts as Customer / Subcontractor interface escalation interface
• Leads high-level sessions for program plan and schedule development
• Reviews/approves project plans for conformance to program strategy and program plan and schedule.
• Drives risk, contract, claim and change management
• Arbitrate and resolve conflicts within the program when necessary

Your Profile:

• A minimum of 5, preferably 10+ years relevant experience as Project Manager for large scale software projects in a public sector.
• Demonstrated large project management skills (min 5M EUR size).
• ITS industry background is an asset.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent project management certification.
• Proven leadership experience in line and matrix organizations.
• Servant leadership style.
• Solution driven personality with can-do attitude & approach.
• Experience with all Microsoft programs (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint).
• Experience in dealing with third parties, subcontractors…etc.
• Fluency in English for both verbal and written communication.

Our Offer:

• We have a unique corporate culture, driven by family tradition since 1892. We strive to create a work environment conducive to personal growth, satisfaction and achievement.
• You you will be part of an international company with European roots and our Delivery & Operations EMENA Team
• A hands-on onboarding with an experienced team to get familiar with the business and domain-related processes.
• Space for creating innovative solutions and ideas within a professional team practicing Agile methodologies.
• Social benefits of a modern company, e.g. Homeoffice, mobile devices, flexible working hours, operating restaurants, meal discount, jobticket, company doctor etc.
• Possibility to participate in regular trainings (technical and personal development)
• A market compliant gross salary of EUR 70.000 p.a. based on a full-time employment, which can be adapted according to your qualifications and your job experience.
• Start date: as soon as possible, full-time position.
• Location: Vienna
• The benefits of working for the Kapsch Group

Kapsch is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We attach great importance to a balance in the diversity of our employees. Therefore we welcome all applications without regard to gender, age, religious beliefs/ideology, sexual orientation, ethnicity or national origin.

Your contact for this position: Tatiana Rezan-Sirotinskis, Talent Attraction Partner Austria, T: +43 50 811 1906