Lead Project Management Manager

**Job Description Summary**: The Project Manager’s mission is to manage, in a “project-oriented” mode, a project that directly involves:

- One or several clients,
- One or several commercial contracts,
- One or several Units in the company.

The Project Manager has full responsibility of the project in order to meet contractual commitments ensuring the highest customer satisfaction, financial profitability in terms of gross margin and cash, and safe delivery of works.

The Project Manager is directly responsible for the Operational Management of the project.

He/she leads all project activities to ensure time schedule is achieved and all quality standards are met according to the contract.

He/she is personally responsible for EHS in the various stages of the project and cannot delegate that responsibility.

The Project Manager is the main interface to the customer(s) for the project implementation. He/she works in a close cooperation with sales and business development teams. His/her contribution and behavior are key in maintaining & growing customer relationship.

The role has moderate autonomy, requiring high levels of operational judgment.

The role will cover Italian projects and other countries, mainly Spain and UK

**Roles and Responsibilities**
- Integration Management: Defines project objectives & strategy, manages the changes and adapts the objectives & strategy accordingly.
- Project Scope Management: Manages the entire project scope of work, analyses customer requirements and detects errors/inconsistencies with customer requirements. Proposes solutions to reduce those gaps and leads the relevant negotiations.
- Time Management: Delivers the project on time, ensures that plan includes relevant requirements (incl. EHS), plans resources within the schedule, documents schedule risks and mitigation actions, confirms targets, success criteria and strategy, develops and integrates baselines (schedule, cost, cash-flow), ensures progress measuring methods and processes are in place and being used.
- Cost Management: Takes responsibility for the project’s margin, maximizes profit and cash at each phase of project, foresees costs & margins at completion, identifies cost discrepancies, monitors cash evolution and takes actions, optimizes costs and challenges productivity in all areas directly involved.
- Human Resources Management: Sets-up and drives project and site organization teams and anticipates resources allocation.
- Communication Management: Is responsible for all aspects of communication within the project (internal and external), ensures customer satisfaction through effective and healthy communication and provides reporting to customer and to management.
- Risks & Opportunities Management: Conducts risk management sessions/ meetings with project team to identify and implement risk mitigation plans, as well as to proactively generate and manage opportunities.
- Contract Management: Takes responsibility for all aspects of contract management with the customer and subcontractors/suppliers and ensures full understanding of the contractual requirements by the project team. Challenges and negotiates terms & conditions, claims and variation orders towards the customer and towards the subcontractors/suppliers.
- Suppliers Management: Plans & follows procurement & delivery in coordination with procurement department, decides on and proceeds to the release of purchase requests, final decision maker on placing purchase orders for his/her project to qualified suppliers, evaluates quality of deliveries (on-time deliveries, quality of products supplied, quality of services supplied including documentation).

**Required Qualifications**
- Engineering degree
- Fluent in Italian and Spanish, both are mandatory
- Fluent in business English

**Desired Characteristics**
- Experience in Project Management, PMP certification (optional)

**Additional Information**:
**Relocation Assistance Provided**:No