IT Project Manager

Job Description

As an IT Project Manager, you will be part of our Enterprise Applications team, responsible end to end for Nokias applications portfolio, used across all Business Groups and Functions. Our current mission is to simplify and modernize our application portfolio and to transform it into a fast-moving, product-oriented, and customer-focused technology organization. The overall objective for this position is to have a strong candidate ensuring successful IT Projects in the following GFS Digital Services domain. What you will learn and contribute to As part of our team, IT project manager is accountable for managing large, medium or small-scale projects which have a business impact, reaching over one or more cross-stakeholder segment. Manages projects/program over their full life-cycle, with support from Supplier Ecosystem IT project managers, or from internal project manager (program). Ensures stakeholder satisfaction, compliance and execution with agreed quality, cost, schedule and scope/deliverables. Resolves issues, mitigates risks, and manages scope changes. Proactively participates in the definition of new cross functional projects or programs. Main areas of responsibility:
• Defines project/program, deliverables, milestones, structure and governance.
• Prepares the investment proposal preparation and business case (including relevant business& IT value impact)
• Chooses or follows the appropriate method and tools to manage the project, in order to enhance agility and agile development methodologies, adapts appropriate PM practices.
• Preparing and planning scope and commitment against approved budget, schedule and quality expectations, ensuring successful accomplishment of the project/program.
• Project structure, governance, cost planning, controlling and reporting, risk management, change management, communication & training
• Defines needed resource requirements and responsibilities. Plan, agree and manage needed resources, and allocate and assign work and responsibilities. Contribute to the Supplier selection with vendor management.
• Working with key business/IT stakeholders to ensure buy-in for change. Manage change to bring value to business through effective project and program management.
• Manages dependencies to other project/programs and relevant services.
• Manages and control project tasks, deliverables, reports, schedules & milestones according to PM methodology.
• Defines progress measurements. Reviews and reports the performance periodically. Ensures transparency in reporting.
• Coordinates progress and issue handling by keeping status meetings and action lists in a regular and documented manner.
• Contributes to project reviews internally and toward partners. Facilitates and drives continuous improvement of the activities, based on the surveys, Lessons Learned, Best Practices etc.
• Concept creation, testing and IT related activities. Piloting and deployment related activities
• Manages approvals, validations and steering group meetings. Manage change control.
• Ensures deliverables handover to service and project closing activities.
Your skills and experience You have:
• 10+Year of hands Project/Test management experience with medium and large projects
• Experience with waterfall and Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Experience with Software Development Life Cycle
• Good understanding on the DevOps
• Experience to handle the Test management
• Proven ability to drive the execution of complex business projects
• Proficiency with related software tools including but not limited to MS Project Professional, JIRA, MS Excel, etc.
• Broad knowledge of business practices, project management and IT systems
• Optional: PMP or similar project management certification or ISTQB Agile Tester Foundation
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