Senior Project Manager

Location: Geneva · Contract: Permanent · Assignment: long term · Rate: 100% · Start: January 2027

For one of our clients based in Geneva, we are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager.

Context

Within the department responsible for performance and project management of the IT department, you will be responsible for IT projects. You will ensure the quality of project management and oversee operational and financial monitoring. You will provide quality management and ensure the proper development of project team members. You will implement operational and administrative procedures in accordance with the project management standards of the department, and provide advisory services to the business units within your scope.

The areas of intervention are as follows:

• Projects arising from the IT strategy

• Projects for the evolution of business solutions

• Projects managing the obsolescence of business IT systems

• Strategic projects of the IT department

• Internal technical projects

• Projects related to regulatory changes

Your missions

• Monitor costs, deadlines and quality of projects, prepare reports according to directives and apply necessary measures

• Identify and monitor risks and verify the effectiveness of measures taken

• Ensure project management based on achieving the objectives of signed and validated project mandates

• Manage projects relying on the project management methodology supported by the PMO, to guarantee the quality of control points

• Ensure the needs expressed by clients, mainly the internal IT department services, are taken into account

• Have decisions related to solution choice, configuration, development and implementation validated by the relevant stakeholders, steering committees and, if necessary, governance committees

• Apply the project quality assurance plan

• Implement risk management in compliance with internal control, information security and internal audit requirements: identify risks, assess them, monitor their evolution and propose corrective actions

• Organise successive validations by stakeholders for each project phase

• Define the human resources necessary for the smooth running of projects under your responsibility

• Establish and implement communication and support plans according to stakeholders and the organisation in place

• Control the execution of the training plan within the general project planning

Education

• University Master’s degree in computer science or EPF engineering diploma

Essential skills

• Proven experience of 5 years or more in IT solutions project management

Desirable skills

• Mastery of all project management disciplines across all project phases, supported by a recognised methodological framework (PMI, IPMA, Agile...)

• Experience in managing IT component projects (vendor solutions, internal and external developments)

• Mastery of human resource management and communication, including in an organisation based on remote work

• Ability to manage multidisciplinary resources, delegate and set objectives

• Strong capacity to interact with expert engineers, project stakeholders and management

• Good understanding of the challenges of a large organisation and its governance

An advantage

• Experience in transformation related to the implementation of agile approaches such as DevOps and containerisation

• Cloud experience (private, hybrid, public)

• IAM experience

• Security experience

• Experience in oral presentations before management bodies

• Ability to assist a programme manager

Personal qualities

• Excellent written and oral communication

• Leadership, autonomy, initiative, anticipation and negotiation skills

• Ability to manage multidisciplinary expert teams working in a network, notably remotely