Global Project Manager – Product & Solutions
Lisboa
EUR 40000 - 60000
Global Project Manager – Product & Solutions
Time type: Full time
Posted on: Posted 19 Days Ago
End Date: January 12, 2025 (11 days left to apply)
Job requisition id: R090461
Kantar Worldpanel is looking for a Global Project Manager to join the Product & Solutions team. This individual will lead the planning and delivery of global projects alongside a cross-functional team and stakeholders, building a career path in a modern, truly global, project-setup environment.
If you’re looking for a chance to apply your knowledge and experience into making a difference and push colleagues from all around the world to achieve our shared goals – you’re the type of candidate we’re looking for.
What does success look like in this role?
* Collaborate with impact as a trusted partner to Product, Operations, Technology and Commercial teams, by understanding their interdependencies and ensuring alignment on business needs.
* Define and implement a clear governance model for collaboration with the teams, that increases the value of the outcome while keeping the process and paperwork as light as possible.
* Plan projects and drive progress and communication to ensure that scope, budget and timelines are successfully achieved.
* Define and manage appropriate metrics and KPIs to effectively monitor and report on progress to project teams and senior stakeholders.
* Manage constraints and risks with appropriate mitigations to ensure projects are driven with maximum effectiveness to deliver the defined outcomes.
* Proactively make recommendations to ensure project business outcomes are achieved.
* Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies and tools to expand and mature these capabilities for the wider organization.
Key Capabilities
Your background will ideally look like this…
* Relevant successful experience in project management, in an international environment, and having developed solid working relationships.
* Possesses full business proficiency in English (C1 Level Minimum).
* Shows interpersonal skills to influence and spur change, enhance performance within a cross-functional matrix environment by collaborating across multiple areas to achieve a common business objective.
* Ability to understand the business and strategic goals in relation to the managed projects and apply that understanding to drive project outcomes.
With the following qualities…
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, enjoy working in teams and in multicultural environments.
* Proactive, optimistic, and willing to get involved to achieve the team's goals and objectives.
* Inquisitive, with critical thinking, actively looking for new and more efficient ways of improving processes, raising standards, reducing errors, and overcoming omissions.
* Ability to handle several tasks/assignments simultaneously and maintain flexibility to adapt to changing priorities.
* Highly collaborative and adaptable with the ability to work effectively within different cultural and technical environments.
* Energy and outcome focused on moving things forward.
* Capacity to work with autonomy, self-organized, and rigorous with deadlines to self and others.
The following, although not mandatory, will be appreciated…
* Experience in large scale business transformation programmes.
* Demonstrable project management experience of shaping and delivering multi-regional projects.
* Previous experience working within a multicultural business environment and developing solid working relationships with clients and colleagues from different countries and cultures.
* Domain of any other language besides English.
* Has obtained at least one of the following certifications: Prince2 Practitioner or PMI-CAPM (PMP) or Scrum/Agile equivalent.
Key stakeholders
* Head of Project Management in Product & Solutions – the person that will work closest to you in introducing the projects and initiatives and structuring each operating model.
* Product & Solutions Leadership Team – key Product / Solutions leads and representatives for each initiative, and whom with your work you will be supporting in first place.
* Executive level (CPO, CTO, COO, CCO, Regional MDs) – sponsors of the projects, ultimate decision makers.
* Technology, Operations, Commercial teams – partners to deliver the projects, colleagues with whom we work very close to.
* Market representatives – hold the specific knowledge of their markets, depending on the role and seniority they can be members of Steering Committees, leads of particular processes or business experts.
We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale.
Benefits
* Option of flexible hybrid working
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Private Medical & Dental Insurance
* Life Assurance & Income Protection
* Cycle to Work Scheme
At Kantar, we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.
We want to build an equality of opportunity in a fair and encouraging working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to thrive in a space where their mental health and well-being is taken into consideration.
Privacy and Legal Statement
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About Us
Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 25000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.
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