International Senior Project Manager for the defence market

You have customer value focus and proven IT project results driven by your leadership skills. This is your opportunity to work in an international environment where you will be responsible for service deliveries to customers worldwide, and at the same time you will support business development in the specific area

The job

As our new Senior Project Manager, you will have the overall responsibility for the implementation of complex IT solutions delivered to customers in one of our six customer regions. At the same time, you and your team will support our business development activities in these regions in close corporation with our sales department. This includes preparing proposals and any other business development activity requiring deep knowledge of the products and services we offer.

You will have the responsibility for multiple project at the same time, being a mix between delivery and business development. You will prioritize, coordinate and optimize activities across the projects, and, in corporation with your colleague project managers, do the same across the service delivery department. It is you responsibility to deliver to agreed scope, schedule and quality, and at the same time maintain and develop the long-term customer relationship.

As part of the job, you will be collecting knowledge about the customer’s way of doing business, and bring this back into Systematic, to support development of world-class products and services for the defence sector worldwide. To do this, you will need to keep up to date with Systematic defence offerings while also acting directly as an advisor for our customers, or bring into play the right colleagues that can help our customers improve their business.

You will be people manager of your own core team of highly skilled consultants, which you will grow in capability and size as we develop our business in the customer region. You will also be utilizing experts from other teams and departments to ensure the best quality in specific deliveries, and to help ensure load balancing of employees across teams and departments.

Your skills and personality

We expect that you: • Have an IT-related university degree and competences comparable to PMI/PMP, Prince2 or IPMA level B/C • Have at least 4 years of experience as a Project Manager, and proven results running complex IT projects in a busy environment • Are skilled in combining business insight with IT-Knowledge to create value for the customer • Are outgoing and excellent at communicating with our external customers • Possess leadership experience and have the ability to coach and motivate others inside and outside own organisation • Have a proven ability to deliver on cost, schedule and quality • Military knowledge or experience is an advantage, but not a requirement. • ITIL certification is also an advantage

You are ambitious and you raise the bar to new heights. You have the will and the ability to continuously develop yourself, and as a team player, contribute to the continuous development of both the team and the company. You have a positive attitude; you are committed, flexible and diplomatic.

You are fluent in written and spoken in English. Furthermore it will be an advantage if you are Arabic speaking.

Your base will be in Aarhus, Denmark and you must expect some travel.

Systematic offers

Our IT solutions make it simpler for the users to make critical decisions. In the defence and healthcare sectors, critical decisions are often life-and-death decisions. In both the private and the public sector our solutions must handle large amounts of data, e.g. in the library sector with more than 50 mill. yearly loans. To be able to continue the development of solutions that customers trust, we continuously challenge each other, our work processes and technologies. We have a highly pro-active education and training policy with defined career paths and internal pro-active Knowledge Networks.

We stay constantly focused on making everything better. Our unique combination of strong principles from CMMI and the best aspects of LEAN and Scrum enable us to develop reliable, high-quality solutions for our customers and to deliver them to the agreed price and deadline. We work in teams and some of our teams include well-integrated insourced developers.

We prioritise a sensible balance between work and private life and our agile approach provides you with an excellent opportunity of being able to plan your own tasks and working hours to a large extent. We value social cohesion at the workplace and have a very active staff association.

Questions and application procedure

If you would like to know more about this position, please contact Director Business Development & Operations, Defence Operations, Anders Bille Tvedt at + 45 89 43 20 00.

Application deadline: 1st October 2015, however, please send us your application as soon as possible as interviews will commence shortly

Workplace: Aarhus. Certain amount of travelling must be expected

Commencement: By Appointment

You are welcome to apply for this position in either Danish or English. We look forward to receiving your application.

Systematic A/S develops software and systems solutions to customers in healthcare, defence, the library and learning sector, law enforcement, the public sector, finance and service industries. A common feature of these customers is a need to integrate, compare and analyse large volumes of complex data, and to generate an overview that allows decision-making based on a solid foundation, often in critical situations. Systematic was established in 1985. Today, the company is the largest privately owned software and systems company in Denmark, with major international companies as partners, and solutions sold to customers in 47 countries. The company has approximately 475 employees and is headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark with further offices in Australia, Finland, France, Germany, Singapore, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the USA. Because we also work with security classified projects, all Systematic personnel must have security clearance. Learn more at http://systematic.com/clearance. Apply: https://systematic.com/join-us/search-and-apply/vacant-positions/view-position/department-572/media-4814/project-182622