Project Director - Project Management Specialist

As a Project Management Specialist, you are an essential player in the International Project Management Practice. Your practical experience in managing complex and innovative customer projects enables Project Management maturity and contributes to project achievement for our customers.
In this hands-on role, you provide expert guidance to our project managers, to ensure projects are set successfully with the right delivery framework (predictive, hybrid, agile), based on previous experience, lessons learned and real-life use-cases.

• Collaborate and facilitate to improve existing International PM Practice to reach consistent standards, procedures and practice along the International PM Community at different levels
• Ensure regular and effective communication towards the International PM community, to form a trust relationship for the PMs and reach out to Global Practice owners for support/guidance and support to delivering business values on the project
• Ensure Strategic Value Propositions and customer centric approach is delivered, through regular workshops and communication with an aligned thought process/PM mindset
• Align with External/Market Experts to identify best practices that can enable to improve the International PM Practice within the organization

Your Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a set of cohesive and flexible project delivery frameworks, matched to the various project approaches (predictive, hybrid, agile) and complexities (Regular, Advanced, Premium service packs).
• Build a positive relationship with the PM Team leads, to understand when to engage on specific projects and provide guidance and support. Ensure PM Team Leads become contributing stakeholders for driving maturity within the International PM Practice via enhanced communication and engagement (co-construction)
• Build a functional partnership with Presales, to ensure a full understanding of our customers needs. Participate in bids to support the project manager, where required (e.g. for highly complex or innovative projects)
• Support project management maturity by building on current best delivery practices and developing quality improvement initiatives in collaboration with the methodology expert
• Work in full collaboration with other International and Operational teams (Consulting, Contract Execution, Integration, MSDM, Service Management)
• Create a value matrix based on external maturity assessments. Identifying low hanging fruits, and chronical issues and mitigation strategies. Create a roadmap to implement them in an effective manner
• Host an executive level Steerco to get buy-in for the identified improvement areas on the program and address complex roadblocks via Steerco level by proposing possible solutions
• Provide regular updates towards executives for the progress made on different initiatives with measurable defined targets.

Education, Qualifications and Certifications

• University Degree in the Business, Telecommunications field
• Training in related fields a bonus
• Formal Project Management accreditation required including at least some of the following: PMP, PMI-ACP, SCRUM, Kanban, SAFe, DevOps
• Fluent English required, both spoken and written
• Communicates effectively to inform and influence at all levels
• Customer value focused with strong interpersonal & negotiation skills
• MS Office proficiency, Power-BI and Data visualization techniques Orange Business specifics a bonus (One-truth, etc.)

Essential skills and knowledge

• At least 5+ Years working in Orange within a project management role and experience of multi-regional Projects.
• Proven experience of successfully delivering large, complex and innovative customer projects
• Innovative thinker, with the ability to realise concepts and ideas
• Strong organisational, communication, presentation and reporting skills
• Knowledge of French is an additional asset
• Having a passion for staying current in understanding new trends in professional services information technologies and Project Management disciplines
• Ability to operate with autonomy
• Ability to be flexible while working in a changing environment Change management and transformation experience required.