Project Manager at JDA Software

Job Description

• JDA's Project Managers work with exclusive clients, travel and gain excellent growth and development opportunities.
• JDA are searching for a hands-on Project Manager with excellent customer facing skills with ability to lead a project team to complete on time and to budget.
• We are seeking someone who has experience with software implementation projects in one of our core verticals; Manufacturing, Retail or 3rd Party Logistics. The candidate should be fluent in English.
• This position requires up to 75% travel to client sites; working with teams locally, across EMEA and globally.

Major Responsibilities

• Ability to deliver major JDA projects to time, cost and quality; ensuring JDA achieve minimum gross margins as agreed at the outset of the project
• Able to lead from the front project teams in the resolution of customer project issues, escalating to appropriate parties as needed
• Collaborates with appropriate JDA resources on customer's business, organization and culture to strengthen their credibility as trusted advisors
• Helps validate and produce appropriate baseline project plans and template

Required Skills

Experience / Skills required:

• Some project management work experience required
• Supply Chain experience through related complex client-side implementations; enterprise clients
• Integration and coordination experience with 3rd party consulting integrators (i.e. Cap Gemini, IBM, HP etc.)
• PMP or Prince 2 certification is a plus, must be willing and able to adapt and adopt to JDA project methodology and processes
• Knowledgeable about project management best practices.