Assistant Project Manager ¿ Management Consulting

DC Invest

11-03-2007 | EXPIRA LA 17-03-2007

Job expirat

RESPONSABILITATI

Lead and deliver a small project, or supporting a project leader on the delivery of a larger project in order to achieve specific time, cost, and quality targets - typically together with one other consultant and 5 to 7 client task force members.
The role is based on the client site from Monday to Friday and regular travel to and from there will be required (the clients you will be working with are based in Europe).

Achieve workstream objectives with the client taskforce by means of:
- Applying the company¿s methodologies and tools
- Performance management ¿ setting up, monitoring, and acting upon KPIs,
- Relationship Management ¿ building and maintaining relationship with key people at all appropriate levels internally and externally
- Transferring skills and knowledge to client and team members through coaching, mentoring, and training,

Contribute by
- Demonstrating the quality of work carried out to the client
- Identifying and highlighting additional areas in which the company can add value to the client
- Feeding intellectual capital created during projects back into the company
- Appraising the project team and conducting feedback meetings


CERINTE

Abilities or techniques that have been acquired or developed through training:
- Educated to degree-level
- Fluent in English plus one other European language (especially German / Dutch / French / Norwegian / Swedish / Danish)
- 3 years experience in one of the company¿s key industry sectors combined with the ability to work in a consulting environment

Industries:
- Chemicals
- Energy - oil, gas and renewals
- FMCG - food and beverages, consumer goods, cosmetics and distribution
- Insurance - general, life and pensions, health and Lloyd's
- Life sciences & healthcare - pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, medical services and providers, medical devices and animal nutrition
- Manufacturing - automotive, aerospace and defence, engineering, electronics and high tech
- Metals and mining
- Pulp and paper
- Retail - clothing, mail order, pharmacy and grocery
- Telecommunications - wired, wireless and devices
- Utilities - water, electricity and gas
- Knowledge of Change Management
- Awareness of the company¿s core capabilities, e.g. Supply Chain Management, Asset Management, Process Excellence, Organisational Effectiveness
- Analysis ¿ Can identify trends, patterns, - connections and discrepancies within data, ideas, events, or behaviours;
can condense complex data and communicate them in a useful format; can carry out complex tasks by breaking them down into manageable chunks and addressing them in a systematic way

Interpersonal Skills
¿ Can understand political relationships in organisations and identify key decision makers and influencers;
can engage all relevant client staff; can anticipate and prepare for pushback
- Commercial acumen (financial and operational)
- Experienced user of MS Office (especially Powerpoint / Excel / Word)

Competency Profile - qualities that facilitates performance and achievement, usually developed through experience or innate ability:
- Leadership ¿ Can lead small teams from a wide range of cultural backgrounds by accurately assessing strengths and limitations of team members; setting, clearly communicating, and delivering / ensuring delivery of challenging performance targets; and providing specific, constructive feedback
- Results-Focus ¿ Is focused on the greatest bottom-line impact towards a business goal and both persistent and flexible in achieving it; can measure results of activities especially in those areas where this is harder
- Communication ¿ Can communicate well orally and in writing; can present and ensure understanding of content; can influence based on fact and generate enthusiasm
- Development-Focus ¿ Is driven to develop himself / herself, project team, as well as client task force and performance
- Objectivity ¿ Can see value in contributions from different viewpoints
- Pro-activeness ¿ Is a self-starter who takes the initiative to deal decisively with situations as they arise
- Innovation ¿ Can challenge the status quo as well as develop and apply new concepts
- Promotes the company values and seen as a role model


BENEFICII OFERITE

- Great opportunities for career development within an international environment
- Start-up training in UK


DESCRIEREA FIRMEI

DC Invest is a privileged partnership of IT societies from abroad which implement and develop their specific activities within Romania. DC Invest assures the recruitment and the administrative support of starting and developing teams in Romania. DC Invest is the human resources and administrative support for 30 IT societies and for about 100 employees hired for its clients.

Your joining DC Invest and its clients will guarantee your working in top companies by using the latest technologies in the domain. You will attend training sessions either in Romania or abroad, at the headquarters of the company you were hired for.

DC Invest and its client employees have an excellent salary package and benefit from regular trainings and career perspectives in their domain of activity.
Our client, a global management consultancy specialising in operational transformation, helps leading companies worldwide achieve and sustain real gains in bottom-line performance.

To support their continuing growth, they are seeking excellent and dedicated individuals to become part of their team.