What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at beqom?
Company Overview
Are you passionate and hardworking? Do you thrive in an entrepreneurial environment? beqom is a fast-growing global enterprise software company. We focus on managing compensation and performance for the world’s largest companies. This means we work with the most exciting brands worldwide to support mission-critical business processes. We help our customers attract, retain, and motivate talent by offering their employees fair, transparent, and effective compensation. In that way, we help companies succeed while making their people happy.
At beqom, you'll be surrounded by passionate, hardworking, and smart individuals that are dedicated to our mission of making people happy. If that sounds inspiring to you, let’s get in touch!
Job purpose
The project manager is responsible for overseeing the implementation of the beqom SaaS solution into our customer’s HR IT environments and processes, utilising a network of implementation partners as well as beqom internal experts.
Duties and responsibilities
As a Project Manager, your main duties and responsibilities will include:
- Act as beqom’s primary interface to each customer during implementation and go-live
- Ensure that your projects are managed and delivered according to agreed scope, budgets and timelines.
- Drive proactive change control with customers and partners, to ensure that all work delivered is confirmed in advance and will be paid for as it is delivered.
- Ensure that projects are delivered functionally as required, working with Architects and wider stakeholders as required to ensure the scope for each project or change is clearly understood and documented
- Manage the quality and cost of partner delivery, and actively manage resource performance working on projects in support of beqom customers.
- Proactively identify and manage any dependencies, constraints, risks or limitations likely to affect project success
- Create detailed project-level plans, resource projections, budgets and RAID logs as well as any other suitable governance materials that ensure risk, cost and quality dimensions are actively managed
- Provide clear progress reporting information as appropriate to various technical and non-technical audiences, acting as a focal point of ownership for interested parties in relation to the project
- Work with the customer sponsors and all other business stakeholders through the Delivery lifecycle, ensuring their needs and expectations are understood and met
- Working with the customer sponsors, provide active input, both written and verbal, to Project Steering Groups and other appropriate governance structures
Qualifications
- Experience of delivering ‘end to end’ software development projects
- Experience managing project P&L performance, including financial forecasting and change control
- A strong customer focus, recognising internal and external customers, establishing effective relationships
- Experience of delivering projects via third parties
- Previous experience of managing projects through the full Project Life Cycle using a structured methodology such as PRINCE2, Scrum
- Strong English communication (verbal/written) and influencing skills, with an ability to manage internal and external relationships up to senior levels of management.
Nice to have:
- Formal project management qualifications e.g. PRINCE2/agile/change management
- Dev Ops experience using any tool, but preferably Microsoft Visual Studio / ADO
Business travel
The role will require business travel across the US (if the situation allows), which will make up around 25% of your working time. Due to this travel requirement, you should have easy access to an airport.
Why join us?
- Dynamic environment favouring initiative and autonomy
- Great opportunity to learn on the job and expand horizons!
- Strong company culture: check our Glassdoor reviews!
