IT Project Manager Team Leader

Job Description:

We are now looking for an IT Project Manager Team Leader​ to join Airbus GBS Portugal.

Leadership Responsibilities :

• Acts as a catalyst in a company who directs the team towards achieving a shared objective.

• Participate in the recruitment of all agreed resources and actively contribute to the team strategy.

• Develop the team with on-the-job opportunities and empowerment.

• Create a wellbeing working atmosphere, and behave in respect with Airbus values.

• Organize the team in the most efficient way (e.g., creating focal points by areas and helping pair on the day-to-day activities).

• Set clear objectives, define roles and responsibilities and ensure each team member aligns with the team’s vision.

• Evaluate and follow the teams performance providing encouraging and constructive feedback 

• Be able to identify, propose and implement solutions for improvement.

• Follow the people tempo strategy and accomplish all the necessary steps for the team evaluation, goal setting, competence assessment etc.

• Support the team , coach and mentor, develop improvement strategies

• Facilitate Effective Communication, foster an environment of open communication, encouraging dialogue, feedback, and collaboration among team members.

• Promoting Collaboration and Teamwork, sustain  a culture of collaboration and teamwork, facilitating cross-functional cooperation and knowledge sharing.

• Resolving Conflicts and Issues, mediate and resolve issues that may arise, fostering a positive and harmonious work environment.

• Ensure team compliance with company policies and procedures.

• Lead by example demonstrating integrity, accountability, and a strong work ethic in their actions and decisions

Responsibilities - your mission

• Launch and drive projects towards Go-Live with objectives on-time, on-scope, on-cost, and on- quality to customer satisfaction and user acceptance ·

• You will implement a sustainable and agile project team all along the project phases · 

• You will ensure effective integrations of lessons learnt, active risk and opportunity management, effective contract management of partners and suppliers. · 

• Represent your project across the organization and manage appropriate service-related communication towards the customers

Key Abilities:

• Ability to apply the appropriate project management methods, processes and tools for managing project and process requirements and risks, monitoring and controlling of project progress, setting up and managing schedule, cost and resources. 

• Ability to analyse project performance and to identify potential improvements. - Ability to use methods and tools of Change Management. 

• Ability to manage contracts, understand the contractual wording (terms and conditions) and effects to the programme/project. 

• Ability to perform effective product /project control via the applicable review processes and the application of the Maturity Gate Process 

• Ability to review product baselines, project management plans and product / project performance throughout the whole product life cycle. 

• Ability to define and document measurable product / programme / project success criteria. 

• Ability to identify, assess and respond to risks and opportunities. Ability to gather and reuse previous experience from other similar products / projects.

Requirements - our ideal candidate will have

• Bachelor degree in Information Systems Technology or Engineering. Master degree preferred. 

• Quickly adapt in an evolving environment through multifunctional and international teams. 

• Educated to a Master Degree level in Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Information Management or a related discipline 

• Hands-on 5years+ Experience within Strategic and/or Program Procurement, interfacing with IT 

• Proven Experience within complex IT projects (roll-out with several hundred users)

•  PM Tools, PMP Certification, Value Stream Management - Stakeholde