Location: Maynila, PhilippinesThales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.Thales has been present in the Philippines since 2002, and continues to support the country's big ambitions in the aerospace, defence and digital security sectors. As a committed partner to the country, Thales works closely with key Filipino partners in the areas of digital identity and security, air traffic management and defence, where its technologies and services supplied Digital Identity & Security business lie at the heart of modern life, from payment to enterprise security and the internet of things. Thales employs a workforce of close to 200 employees in the Philippines, across two facilities in Manila and Laguna. Main Missions Project Management : manage the delivery of the customer's solutions and services in accordance with defined specification, time, quality and cost criteria and as per contract Upsales contribution: identify the customer's extra-needs during the project delivery or during the support & maintenance period. The aim is to increase the up sales of solutions and services on a set of assigned customers Drive upsales solutions proposals and manage long-term customer relationship in farming mode beyond project management Level of Expertise Leading large size projects in building a project organization divided in sub systems Managing international projects with remote stakeholders Being able to delegate technical follow up within the team Managing conflict situations with the customers according to project context and actors To be able to contribute to commercial and contractual offers Performing knowledge sharing missions such as contributing to process and project management improvements in his/her organization and coaching junior project managers or newcomers Specific Responsibilities: Project management Implement the quality process according to in-house Design Develop Qualify Solutions (DDQS) Supporting pre sales team to perform quotation, schedules and feasibility study Write the project management plan Takeover projects from Solution Managers via Hand Over Review Process (HOR) Manage subcontracting deliveries related to project delivery Capture, complete and validate the customers' requirements in the Solution Requirements Specification Report project progress to the Thales management and to the customers' project owner via reporting tools Monitor the project : cost, schedule, risk, actions and margin Manage project risks and impacts during the project and communicate on them Report major issues to management and recommend solutions to the customers' project owner Request resources that are compliant with the project schedule and the customers' requirements objectives Coordinate with the delivery center managers with regards to resources availability Completing and validating the functional specifications with the customer Manage, coordinate, motivate and inform the technical project team Supervise and contribute to the technical aspect of the project (architecture, design, validation, integration) Ensure the configuration management and archives are set Lead the acceptance of a project and be responsible for its delivery Ensure the change management related to the customers or to the project Identify lessons learned during the post-mortem meeting of each project and communicate them to the team in order to capitalize new knowledge Handover the project to S&M Team for Support and Maintenance phase Coordinate with the other Project Managers to create and develop knowledge sharing and promote reuse (best practices, reusable modules, etc.) Based on project experience, participate in the process improvement plan and best practices sharing Up sales contribution This part mainly consists in identifying and promoting new business opportunities to existing customers.
Beyond Project Management, maintain a close technical relationship with selected accounts and focus on them. For these accounts/customers :
Keep regular contact with assigned customer and with support & maintenance manager in order to identify up sales opportunities Identify the customers' extra-needs during the project delivery and during the support & maintenance period to increase solutions and services up sales Manage change requests/ upsells of Solutions and Services for established customers according to Corporate Authority Limits and the Business Unit bid management process With regards to customers under your responsibility, define the quotation, schedule and feasibility study for a project during presales on a case per case basis Inform the account manager when making an offer to his assigned set of customers Impact customers' needs and requirements based on customer knowledge and Thales offer knowledge Qualifications Education Engineering or Master's degree in Computer Science
Experience Level: Two years' experience as a Development or Production Engineer
and 3 to 5 year experience in project management (specification, design and team)
Competences: Technical /functional skills: Fluent English and or knowledge of other regional languages (Asian) is appreciated Good Communication skills Negotiation skills Project management PMI/IPMA standards Thales internal processes : Design Develop Qualify Solutions(DDQS) Crisis management Pre-sales skills, solution selling Contract Management Legal Aspect of Software Microsoft Project Configuration management (MKS) CMMi Basic knowledge in: cryptography, smartcard, personalization solutions, Thales solutions Confluence /Jira Behavioral skills: Leadership Decision making Risk taking Ability to work under pressure Anticipation Team worker Interpersonal skills Customer oriented Pragmatic Rigorous Other: Mobile for frequent traveling
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