Senior Project Manager
Delft - Hybrid
As our new Senior Project Manager, you will join ten colleagues in our Global Managed Services (GMS) Planning and Project Management team. Everything we do is centered around managing projects to secure our clients against cyber threats. Within our Planning and Project Management (PM) team, we deliver services such as network-, endpoint- and SIEM monitoring. Exciting projects which you obviously won't manage all by yourself. Together with security engineers and analysts you will be faced with a dynamic range of interactions, tasks and challenges, all focused on the delivery of our services. Most of our customers are situated in The Netherlands, but you will also work on international projects. Every organization needs to be aware and pro-active of their cyber security, so we serve organizations across various sectors.
In this position you will
- Be responsible for the billable projects for customers, and implement our managed services, all leading to an increase in the maturity of the customer’s cyber security. You will:
- Host and coordinate various customer meetings like kick-offs, progress meetings and evaluations
- Engage, support and build relationships with a select range of customers and future customers by being their go-to person for their new or expanded services
- Define project deliverables and ensure that they meet our quality standards.
- Designate allocation of resources in an effective and efficient manner closely working with our planning team.
- Supervise working schedules to ensure projects are completed within scope and within budget.
- Have a close feedback loop to maintain progress of your projects.
- Work closely with the delivery engineers, security analysts and other internal and external stakeholders and suppliers to deliver a good service.
Your profile
You are natural in managing and informing your stakeholders and you are very result oriented. You pro-actively bring your own ideas to improve processes and help us get better. Your fascination for IT in combined with a healthy dose of security-paranoia is a pro. In addition, you should:
Education and Certification
A bachelor's or master's degree in a relevant field such as business administration, management, engineering, or information technology.
Professional certifications like Project Management Professional (PMP), PRINCE2 are often required or highly desired.
Experience
- Several years (5+) of experience in project management, including client-facing projects.
- Communication Skills:
- Excellent written and oral communication skills. Be both comfortable and confident to communicate in Dutch and English (both in writing and verbally) with customers and colleagues.
- Ability to communicate effectively with all levels within the organization, including stakeholders and project team members.
- Negotiation skills and the ability to resolve conflicts.
- Organizational Skills:
- Strong planning and organizational skills. The ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
Technical Skills
- Knowledge of project management software such as Microsoft Project, Atlassian JIRA, or similar tools.
- Understanding of the technical aspects relevant to the projects being managed.
- Adaptability and Flexibility:
- The ability to quickly adapt to changing circumstances and cope with uncertainty.
- Being open to and effectively responding to feedback and new ideas.
- Results Orientation:
- The focus is on delivering project outcomes within the set timelines and budgets.
- The ability to align project objectives with business goals.
- Cultural and Emotional Intelligence:
- Awareness and respect for cultural differences within the project team and the wider organization.
- Emotional intelligence to effectively deal with diverse team members and stakeholders.
Fox-IT
We are NCC/Fox-IT, or Fox. We stand for a More Secure Society. That means every one of us contributes to making society safer and more secure with the help of our technical and innovative solutions. From our Red Team of hackers, our Blue Team of defense specialists, highly skilled developers to trusted security consultants and more: We do this for organizations where cyber security is highly important. That is why we continuously develop our individual skills and knowledge.
NCC/Fox’ers are very proud to work at Fox-IT. We are open to feedback and find it important to learn from mistakes. We are critical thinkers, naturally security paranoid and thrive on development. As part of NCC Group, we are the European HQ. Together with the rest of the group and almost 2000 like-minded colleagues around the globe, we are on our never-ending mission to create a safer world.
Our offer
Working at Fox means that you can let your technical creativity run free and that this is also greatly appreciated. You cannot always tell everything about your work, but you can say that you contribute to a safer society. That is not all. As a Project Manager you also get:
- A good salary that matches the cool things you have already done and will do.
- Flexible working hours and working from home possibilities. So, you can occasionally start later or do your thing from home.
- A favorable pension scheme, 28 vacation days and 8% vacation pay.
- Many development opportunities: you can gain and share knowledge through Tech Talks, Crypto Colloquia, events and the Fox Academy.
- A laptop and business phone. Do you use your own telephone? Then you will be reimbursed a maximum of € 25.
- Work from home reimbursement.
- A performance bonus and profit sharing, because we appreciate your commitment.
- A great lunch, tasty coffee and lots of fruit when we are at the office again. A good time to catch up with your colleagues.
If you have any questions regarding the vacancy, you can send an e-mail to vacatures@fox-it.com.
An extended screening procedure is necessary to work at Fox-IT.
Help from recruitment agencies, how well intended it might be, is really not necessary.
