PIO Planning Manager

Location: Netherlands

SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Medical Devices organisation, based in Noord-Brabant Netherlands.

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Role Description

Are you the experienced program planning expert that our client is looking for and are you ready for your next step in supporting their company’s transformation? Can you be part of the overarching transformation ‘control tower’ that oversees the direction that our programs are moving? We challenge you to take responsibilities of the planning function within the transformational programs and bring it to the next level!

Responsibilities

• Set-up and run multi million program & project plans within the transformation portfolio, relating to scope, budget, resources & timelines.
• Strengthen and continuous improve the program planning & interdependencies in programs and underlying projects, incl. organization, staff, processes, procedures and tooling.
• Leveraging the overall program planning management facility in relation to on-, near and off-shore capabilities, incl. growth strategy.
• Coordination of multiple program plans in the landscape of a multi-million program environment.
• Within the program management office, acting as a center of expertise in relation to planning & portfolio management and be single point of contact for program and project managers.
• Acts as a thrusted advisor to new leaders on the team and communicates both internal and external
• Responsible, support and advices overall engagement/program planning, changes, risks, issues, budget and deliverables in relation to overall scope of programs
• Analysis dependencies, objectives & targets and provides advice for changes
• Signals relations between various areas and actively provides improvements
• Improves processes, templates and tools.
• Coaching support teams, program and project managers and sponsors

Requirements

• Bachelor or Master degree
• 5-10-years of experience in the area of planning management and PMO within professional services
• Project management certifications (PRINCE2 Practitioner, IPMA C/D, PMI certified)
• Very strong MS Project experience, Excel skills and background in portfolio instruments such as CA Clarity and/or Planisware.
• Experience in technology driven organizations, as many programs have a very strong IT component included.
• Extensive experience in project management methods (e.g. PRINCE2, PMBOK, Agile, Scrum).
• Master English both written and oral
• Strong communication skills
• Pro-active, accurate and stress resistant
• Leadership & coaching
• Problem analysis and conclusion
• Planning and organization
• Political sensitive

Other information

Period; 3 - 6 months (with possible extension)
Will include travel

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Ravi Ramnarain Singh.