Project Manager

**We are delighted that you want to be part of our team** **About MetaIT North America** **About our customer** A world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in 75 countries with approximately 66,400 employees and serves more than 3.8 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen are essential small molecules for life, matter and energy. **How’d the process work?** An interview with MetaIT’s HR team, your future Manager here at Meta, a technical assessment and in case approved, a final interview directly with Air Liquide’s team. **Primary Duties and Responsibilities** - Conduct feasibility studies with technical teams (Architects, GIO, Alizent, etc) - Help assess costs, capacity, contingency, infrastructure and evaluate the level of risk, needed budgets and the resulting IT Value Creation (ROI, IRR) - Design and lead project governance and reporting, in line with governance standards - Define the structure, scope, and lead efforts around work plans, schedules, cost estimates, resourcing required to deliver the project - Take care about the overall ecosystem and identify external dependencies and risks - Support the development of project business cases and steward the proposed project through governance for sign-off to proceed - Manage internal and external (vendor) resources within a distributed environment. - Direct the project delivery through active sponsorship, leadership and involvement in specific initiatives to ensure they meet time, cost and quality requirements - Monitor and control execution of project though analyze, design, build, test and release phases - Serve as the interface between project teams and customers to ensure collaboration and coordination between all stakeholders. - Monitor and communicate status and progress to stakeholders. Communicate and incorporate feedback from customers. - Ensure that project delivery complies with regulations and company policies - Work in collaboration with Data Engineers, Data Analysts and Data Scientists and manage the development and operation of data products in close relationship with the business and the Digital & IT entities. - Maximize value for users (Business Intelligence, Data Science, Digital Applications, etc.). - Organize the complete life cycle of Data products, from business needs to production. - Within an Agile / DevOps team, organize the work of the team for the stages of ingestion, modeling, transformation and provision of data. - In-charge of the "backlog" and changes to the various data products within its scope of responsibility. - Interact with multiple business & technical teams e.g. World Business Lines, Hubs, Clusters, Digital Fabs, global IT teams: GIO, Alizent, and technical teams from GDO. - Data & BI PM may work on one of the following areas: HR data, procurement, group or other repositories, industrial and production data, customers, sales and marketing, etc **Education, Training or Certification Requirements**: - Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, MIS, Business, or a related discipline - Solid Experience in two of the three areas: Business/Operations, IT, or Project Management **General Requirements and Knowledge**: - Experience in project management skills, methods and techniques (planning, scheduling, project control procedures, etc.). - Strong ability to work with data tables, and understanding of business requirements for BI needs - Basic knowledge of SQL would be an advantage - Ability to manage Agile and Non-Agile projects - Ability to manage projects and data products in a global environment: multiple Business Lines and collaboration with international teams - User-centric, understands the business requirements, objectives and motivations of each team member - Manages the "delivery" and can arbitrate on priorities (specifications, planning and budget, external resources) - Ability to perform multi-tasking and strong coordination skills - Technical background and attention to detail - Substantial experience in change, issue and risk management - Significant IT project management experience - Controlling and budget management - Excellent analytical capabilities - Critical thinking and problem solving skills - Demonstrate decisiveness and action - Able to simplify and synthesize complex situations with consideration to all elements - First class influencing skills, able to convince audiences to adopt a different course of action - Excellent communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills