Associate Project Manager

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This position reports to

Service Operation Manager

Your role and responsibilities

• Project Planning and Scheduling
• Plans, monitors and controls project activities, proactively to maximize cash flow.
• Understands critical path scheduling and assures a minimum but sufficient project float.
• Actively strives to optimize overall resource planning and utilization considering resources within the local organization.
• Assures a valid Project Safety plan is in place.
• Considers close out activities and influences for an early close out.
• Identifies and shares lessons learned.
• Customer Satisfaction Management in Projects
• Assures ABB commitments to customer are met, in accordance with contract.
• Assures and seeks to improve customer satisfaction and feedback through consistent customer interaction, e.g. Communication, (phone, e-mail, etc.) and Customer meetings, kick off, review, surveys etc.
• Works proactively to set customer expectation to assure a smooth project including acceptance of project deliveries and timely payment even under challenging circumstances.
• Encourages openness & respect, and build trust, confidence & loyalty with customers and partners.
• Promotes healthy work-life balance within the project team.
• Project Financial and Cost Management
• Understands and use Full Cost Calculation/Model and different revenue recognition methods.
• Understands project exposure
• Controls project cost and cash flow
• Influences project expenditures to maximize cash flow.
• Assures and follow up timely invoicing.
• Legal and Contract Management for Projects
• Understands ABB’s standard terms and conditions and the impact upon the contract of differing and/or additionally accepted terms and conditions.
• Understands project specific accepted terms and conditions and their application to project contracts, including awareness of risks of negative impact on margin, performance and risk factors.
• Utilizes contract terms and conditions to maximize cash-flow, margin and to limit liabilities, e.g. through insurance.
• Project Reporting
• Forthrightly presents an account of project status/issues in project reviews.
• Reports status/ progress to customer and other stake holders with appropriate detail for desired understanding, e.g. to assure payment, set expectation, etc.
• Raises potential project issues to relevant stake holders.
• Effectively reports project progress or other situations either verbally or in writing to assure desired understanding.
• Scope and Change Management for Projects
• Utilizes negotiation skills for scope and change management.
• Is on top of scope including the possible overall impact of what may seem to be minor changes
• Negotiates change orders and additional sales.
• Actively pursues desired changes in order to obtain additional sales, increase margin and to lower risk exposure.
• Project Risk and Opportunity Management
• Understands risks as well as what may be causing a change in risk exposure and actions to avoid/mitigate.
• Understands opportunities and how to take advantage of them.
• Identifies and mitigates risks associated with important aspects such as Health and Safety.
• Proactively pursues decided upon mitigation efforts for identified risks.
• Identifies and act upon new risks and opportunities as they occur.
• Assures avoidance/mitigation of liquidated damages and other penalties/claims.
• Procurement Management for Projects
• Work actively with a number of suppliers to obtain overall best possible purchase, in cooperation with the supply management function.
• Coordinates/directs project transportation and logistics.
• Reviews status of critical suppliers’ progress and include in overall schedule.
• Initiates 3rd party inspections as required.
• Ensures the proper application of ABB’s supplier qualification process.
• Ensures correct timing for procurements

Qualifications for the role

• Willingness to commit to achieve company goals and wide long-perspective personal development attitude within ABB are the first prerequisites.
• Good, analytical decision making and problem solving skills are mandatory requirements, as well as ability to quickly adapt to changing situations and work under pressure of them.
• Project management capability and understanding of wider perspective to see ones own contribution from the viewpoint of the whole is needed on successful performance. Professional personnel management, coaching and excellent team leading abilities are prerequisites to meet goals set to the role.
• Technical education, Bachelor’s Degree in engineering with subject of mechanical, electrical or other relevant industrial engineering.
• Understanding of technical project environment and the importance of being the key supplier to the end customer.
• The successful candidate has at least 2 years of work experience from project business; international work experience and background in a western based company are highly valued. Continuous employment period longer than 2 years for one company is preferred.
• Experience in the marine business will be preferred.
• Familiar with the use of MS Office tools. Experience from MS Project, SAP or other ERP system is required.
• Fluent English is required both written and spoken. Good, captivating and to-the-point output in daily communication, as well as in negotiations and presentations.
• Mainly domestic. Highly depending on projects appointed to.

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