Senior Project Manager
Cargolux Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Airlines and Aviation · 1,001-5,000 employees
Applying here? Try the free cover letter tool — paste this posting and your résumé, no account needed.
About the role
The Senior Project Manager will lead end-to-end delivery of corporate projects, ensuring alignment with EPMO methodology and governance standards. They are responsible for managing project scope, timelines, risks, and cross-functional collaboration to achieve successful business outcomes.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must hold a Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Engineering, or a related field and possess at least 5 years of experience in organizational project management. Exceptional communication skills and expertise in stakeholder management and change management are essential for this role.
Full description
Essential Job Results – Task Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of assigned projects in accordance with Cargolux project management methodology
- Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, resource requirements and governance structures
- Take full accountability for project execution, progress, quality, risks, issues and stakeholder management
- Provide regular and meaningful project updates and recommendations to the Director EPMO, sponsors and senior stakeholders
- Drive project planning, execution, monitoring and closure activities to ensure successful project outcomes
- Establish and maintain effective collaboration across business and functional areas
- Identify, assess and proactively manage project risks, issues, dependencies and change requests
- Facilitate project steering activities and support fact-based decision-making through analysis and reporting
- Ensure adherence to EPMO governance standards, project management methodology and reporting requirements
- Support the continuous improvement of EPMO frameworks, practices and governance processes
- Challenge project progress proactively and drive barrier removal to maintain delivery momentum
- Provide support for other programs or initiative within the scope of EPMO, if required
Essential Requirements For The Position:
- Minimum Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Engineering or related field.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience leading organizational projects (e.g., software selection and implementations, TOM changes, process reengineering, etc.) involving cross-functional teams, with a demonstrable track record of success.
- Proven expertise in stakeholder management, requirements gathering and analysis, problem identification, root cause analysis, and proposing actionable solutions.
- Exceptional communication skills, showcasing adeptness in implementing projects with a robust communication and people change management strategies
- Project and change management certifications (such as PMP, Prince2 or Prosci, CCMP) would be considered as an advantage.
- Fluency in written and spoken English, other languages such as French and German are considered as an advantage.
Working Conditions:
- The internal title of this position is: Senior Specialist Project Management
- Full-time position is based in Luxembourg.
- Flexibility with working hours.
- A Certificate of good conduct (Casierjudiciaire, Polizeiliches Führungszeugnis) will be required in case of positive selection.
Similar roles
-
Assistant Project Manager
Turner & Townsend Delhi, India · ₹500K–₹900K/yr
-
Software Project Manager
ASM Temecula, California, United States · $70K–$100K/yr
-
Senior Project Manager - HV Utilities
Downer Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
-
Chief Operations Project Manager (Beijing) (Ref: 26000118)
MTR Corporation Hong Kong, China
-
Water Resources Project Manager - New England (Part-time)
Brown and Caldwell Milford, Connecticut, United States · $78K–$127K/yr
-
Senior Clinical Project Manager
Precision Medicine Group China