Project Manager at Schneider Electric

Your Role – Magic happens when you bring great people together!

• Manage the project team allocating tasks to team members, following their progress in line with project plan (scope, schedule and budget) to completion.
• Animate the communication within the team.
• Manage project contract ensuring fulfilment of Schneider Electric contractual obligations and application of its contractual rights.
• Ensure all appropriate actions to timely recover customer receivables (payments) are done with the support of shared functions.
• Monitor and control project progress versus budget spending. Ensure full & effective reporting to management (reports, project reviews)
• Timeously inform management about project events impacting project performance or compliance with governance principles
• Identify and take all necessary actions to manage risks and address opportunities. Manage claims & variation orders.
• Act as primary point of contact for the customer organizing all project team interaction with the customer (correspondence, emails, calls, meetings). Ensure highest level of customer satisfaction.
• Take full accountability over project profitability (cost, cash flow & margin) including forecasting, engagements follow-up & re-forecasting. Ensure timely revenue recognition as per forecast.
• Ensure project team and suppliers are executing the project in full compliance with Schneider-Electric processes, quality instructions and governance principles.
• Take all necessary actions to correct any deviations or quality issues occurring during project execution.
• Be actively involved with Sales & Tendering team for successful project hand over.
• Conduct lessons learned session with Project team to share feedbacks.
• Be active in PM Community of Practice.

Qualifications

About You

• Commercial / Technical Diploma or Degree 
• Minimum 5 - 8 years in customer project environment (OEM or Energy Management organisations) in the electrical engineering discipline
• Experience in managing equipment or transactional orders is an added advantage
• Cross functional and cross border experience is a plus
• PMP qualification added advantage

Skills requirements

• Excellent leadership, management, communication, influencing, team building and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication skills, effective in a cross-cultural environment to foster collaboration toward a common goal
• Proven leadership skills in project context focusing despite stress and headwinds on business objectives
• Ability to understand, influence & convince in a complex matrix organization