Project Manager Infrastructure

Alpiq Group

Prague, Czech Republic

At Alpiq, within the IT Portfolio & Project Management Team, we ensure the Portfolio Management planning, management and quality delivery of various projects ranging from strategic to transformational to operational change, serving internal and external customers across the organisation.

We are looking for a Senior IT Program/Project Manager to work in our team responsible for managing and ensuring the successful delivery of various programs or projects within the IT Infrastructure (Datacenter, Network, Service Delivery etc.).

Your Responsibilities:

Develop roadmaps, project charters and detailed delivery plans;
Initiate project setup and manage them through phase gates;
Coordinate and deliver projects on time, within budget and in scope, owning the full project life cycle from initiation to delivery;
Motivates the team and creates a positive project atmosphere to achieve the deliverables;
Act with intercultural skills to handle different cultures and communicate consciously considering different working styles;
Develop and manage the project communications plan;
Develop, manage and report on project success criteria;
Provide status reporting on all project dimensions to sponsors, steering committees & stakeholders;
Stakeholder engagement and management;
Manage project changes, risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies;
Develop a sufficiently deep technical and business understanding to be able to interact with business and IT subject matter experts;
Work closely with diverse teams and departments to deliver on IT solutions for business;
Be part of the PM Community and open to contribute to guidelines, standards, KPIs and processes;
Managing project compliance to our standards and processes;
Plan and execute meetings and workshops with various stakeholders.

Your Qualifications:

You have an engineering or information technology degree, or equivalent proven practical experience;
8+ years of IT project management experience;
A proven track record leading IT Infrastructure project;
Project management certification, classical and/or agile i.e. PMP, Scrum Master etc.;
Strong knowledge of agile methodologies and tools, and the software development lifecycle;
Experience with software evaluation processes (RFP, Solution selection, collaboration with procurement, Security checks – generally Application Onboarding Process) would be a big advantage;
Experience in the energy and/or trading industry would be a plus;
Experience leading projects around the following areas: network/telecommunications, data center & EUC, infrastructure tooling, monitoring/security, disaster recovery, SRE Areas;
You demonstrate high performance with the ability to navigate quickly between high and detailed levels, have a proactive mindset and are quickly able to get into hands-on work where needed;
You work in a collaborative way with strong customer focus and have good stakeholder management skills;
You are results orientated, you have strong planning & organizational skills, and excellent communication skills;
Proficient in English, additionally German and/or French would be a strong plus.