Grid Automation Project Director - MENAT

nize the way of working.

• Impacts quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the team. Has significant input into priorities. Consolidate execution summary of Turnkey activity for regular reporting to the management.

• Based on contract, develop and implement the overall strategy for execution of the project to achieve the project performance goals.

• Represents GA towards internal/ external customers; controls and manages these interfaces and relationship.

• Sets up and secure the necessary resources for project execution.

• Regularly monitors and reports the necessary KPI for Turkey segment in MENAT.

• Shares lesson learned on large and complex project to the teams involved on Turkey activity.

• Drive panel integration, platform activity and planning optimization in relationship with internal integration facilities and suppliers

• Identify and secure additional opportunities leveraging GEAT deal, deep customer understanding and needs, and good knowledge of GA portfolio

Integration Management

• Set-up project management plan (incl. strategy) adapted to Multi-Unit and Complex environment.

• Manage the changes and adapt the objectives & strategy accordingly.

• Organize and lead Gate reviews.

• Address project management issues (roadblocks, performance, etc...)

• Contribute significantly to project management process improvements and delivery processes at business level.

Scope Management

• Manage the entire GA project scope of work.

• Analyze customer requirements.

• Detect errors/inconsistencies within customer requirement. Propose solutions to reduce those gaps and lead the relevant negotiations,

Time Management

• Responsible for delivering the project on time.

• Produce and update Master project schedule.

• Produce and updates list of key milestones (incl. internal/external customers).

• Anticipate on-time delivery issues (documents, measure project progress and elaborate action plan).

Cost Management

• Take responsibility for the gross margin of the overall project for GA scope.

• Foresee costs & margins at completion.

• Identify cost discrepancies.

• Develop monthly sales forecast (in close cooperation with the project controller).

• Develop costs and revenue recovery plans.

• Optimize Costs and challenge productivity in all areas directly involved.

Communication Management

• Responsible for all aspects of communication within the project.

• Ensure customer satisfaction through effective and healthy communication.

• Manage ongoing working relationships with at top decision makers to ensure creative solutions and influence decision.

• Provide reporting to customer.

• Provide reporting to management.

Risk and opportunity Management

• Conduct Risk Sessions.

• Identify and implement risk mitigation plans.

• Proactively generate and manage opportunities.

• Identify business / projects risks and opportunities.

• Define action plan with R&D for quick correction of quality issues encounter by the team during project execution.

Contract and Suppliers Management

• Support for all aspects of contract management with the Customer, suppliers and partners for the overall project(s) with the support of the contract management team.

• Ensure full understanding of the Contractual requirements by project team.

• Build complex claim and VO's files involving different levels of Customer / Supplier(s) organization.

• Challenge & negotiate T&C's with the support of the contract manager, claims and VO's.

• Plan & follow procurement & delivery in coordination with procurement team and manufacturing units.

• Evaluate quality of deliveries: on-time deliveries, quality of products/systems supplied, quality of services supplied.

• Supply chain management include internal and external supplier, integration facilities, sub-suppliers.

Large Turnkey Project management leader for MENAT

• Support Sales and tendering teams to determine optimal execution setup/strategy for future Large Turnkey opportunities.

• Participate to business development with Sales team leading the actions on Large Turnkey segment.

• Centralized KPI for Turney project across MENAT region.

• Support and coach project managers to deliver project as planned (on time, on quality with expected margin and taking into account Turnkey business specificities).

• Participate to Project execution review for Turnkey projects in MENAT region.

• Facilitate and organize RoE between the different Turnkey project teams (quarterly review).

• Identify action plan to improve execution on large and complex project with engineering and project management teams (tools, process, etc.).

• Participate to technical review with product manager to understand new features under development (NPI)

Required Qualifications:

• Preferred 20+ years' experience in Project management (Project Management and/or engineering and/or supply chain and/or sourcing function).

• Bachelors' degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent

• A knowledge of systems integration businesses (i.e. solutions) is a must in Power, T&D industry focused on Automation, Telecom and Monitoring Systems.

• Ability to work, listen and convince in a multicultural environment and with functional influence in a matrix organization

• Excellent negotiation, leadership and influencing skills

• Capabilities to define a strategy and excellent project management skills

• Knowledge in economic performance evaluation

• Fluency in English, French and Arabic.

• No obstacle to travel across the region: 25%.

Desired Characteristics:

• Innovative & creative, major change agent

• Resilient, sees setbacks as opportunities

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No