Senior Project Manager Satellites

Senior Project Manager Satellites

Beyond Gravity

Zürich, Switzerland

Your Mission

• Engage with key stakeholders towards setting clear project objectives and key products to be delivered in order to fulfill Contract obligations;
• Drive Project profitability including on-time and on-quality delivery;
• Develop project documentation, agree project plan baseline including scope, key activities, deliverables, resource requirements, milestones, and deadlines;
• Lead a global (sometimes largely virtual) project environment of qualified members from suppliers, engineering and production team members and build strong relationships with customers;
• Ensure coordination and leadership towards team members; that they are informed, have clear goals, and work collaboratively and in partnership with clients and other stakeholders to achieve planned outcomes;
• Drive project execution; track delivery; expect, monitor and control change, own change management; pro-actively seek and resolve blockers;
• Conduct reviews to assess project outcomes and to identify and capture lessons learned to enable continuous improvement;
• Drive communication with the Customer, ensure timely information exchange and constant cooperation;
• Manage Project risks and opportunities, drive rigorous change management and lead negotiations both with internal stakeholders and direct Customer.

Your Story

• Degree in Engineering or Business Administration;
• At least seven years’ experience in managing and overseeing complex customer projects: background in Project Management at custom manufacturing companies would be a major advantage;
• Relevant and demonstrable experience of contract and claim management;
• Strong Business Acumen and negotiation as well as communication skills and the readiness to work as part of an international team;
• Appropriate knowledge of English considered essential; other languages, and especially German, would be an asset;
• Results-oriented and assertive mindset with advanced analytical skills;
• Familiar with modern Office tools (Outlook, SharePoint, Teams) as well as MS Project;
• PMP/IPMA2 certification will be considered a plus.

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