until end of the year with option for extension
Zurich
Employment type
Contract
Industry
Large-scale enterprise technology
Area
Project Management
Location
Zurich
Remote from abroad?
No
Home office?
TBD
Contract duration
until end of the year with option for extension
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Tasks and responsibilities
- Lead a large-scale legacy application transformation programme within a complex enterprise technology environment.
- Own end-to-end project delivery from inception and planning through implementation, deployment, Go-Live, and transition to operations.
- Define and maintain project scope, delivery approach, Work Breakdown Structure, detailed project plan, milestones, dependencies, and resource plan.
- Establish project governance, reporting structures, decision-making processes, and stakeholder-engagement plans.
- Coordinate internal business and technical stakeholders, subject-matter experts, external delivery partners, and related transformation initiatives.
- Lead and coordinate all project workstreams, deliverables, risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests.
- Monitor delivery progress, project performance, budget, financial tracking, forecasts, and resource utilisation.
- Prepare regular project status reports, management updates, and executive-level reporting.
- Define and coordinate the overall test strategy, testing activities, quality-assurance processes, and defect management.
- Ensure operational readiness, including performance, stability, security, reliability, deployment readiness, and transition-to-operations requirements.
- Coordinate deployments and oversee the execution of the Go-Live strategy.
02
Must-have criteria
- Several years of experience as a Project Manager delivering large-scale and complex IT transformation initiatives.
- Proven experience managing complex stakeholder environments involving internal teams, external delivery partners, subject-matter experts, and senior stakeholders.
- Strong experience in project planning, scope definition, Work Breakdown Structures, milestone planning, dependency management, and resource planning.
- Experience establishing and managing project governance, reporting structures, decision-making processes, and executive-level reporting.
- Experience managing project budgets, financial tracking, delivery progress, risks, issues, and project dependencies.
- Proven experience coordinating project workstreams, testing activities, deployment planning, Go-Live preparation, and operational readiness.
- Strong organisational, planning, execution, stakeholder-management, and communication skills.
03
Nice-to-have criteria
- Experience managing legacy application modernisation, enterprise platform transformation, or large-scale technical migration initiatives.
- Experience working with complex enterprise application landscapes and highly interconnected systems.
- Experience coordinating external technology providers or delivery partners in a multi-workstream programme.
- Knowledge of Earned Value Management or comparable project-performance monitoring approaches.
- Experience working in a large, regulated, or highly governed organisation.
04
Contract duration
- Until the end of the year with option for extension
05
Language requirements
- Fluent German
- Fluent English
06
Application form