IT Project Manager / Transformation Planning and Application Management

Project overview

Our client in the Infrastructure, Construction, and Building Materials sector is looking for an IT Project Manager / Transformation Planning and Application Management.

Mission Description:

Context

The organization, present in many countries and active in the design, execution, and renovation of buildings and infrastructure, is digitizing its business processes in France and internationally. As part of a digital transformation plan, digital technology is a lever for performance and differentiation.

Mission

Within the Operational Business IT department, co-manage a planning transformation program with a business project manager to improve planning reliability from tender to works, secure handovers, and strengthen site management. The mission also includes managing approximately eight Build/Run applications and ensuring consistency of processes, data, and interfaces with existing information systems and associated transformation programs. The goal is to anticipate dependencies and collaborate with business, data, and IT teams to avoid silos and duplicate entries.

Main Responsibilities

Technical Environment

Expected Deliverables

Candidate Profile

Experience

Technical Skills

Personal Skills

Essential Skills / Qualities:

IT project management and planning transformation, Application management Build/Run, Product Ownership and backlog management, Budget, risk, and service provider management, IT architecture, APIs and data governance, Change management and transverse coordination, English

Beneficial Skills / Qualities:

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• Manage projects within the Planning transformation program: implement initiated projects and scope upcoming ones with the business project manager.
• For tenders, test the selected solution to facilitate collaboration without master planning expertise and launch the "Tender Planning Robustness" project, including a knowledge base, solution testing, and AI-driven extraction of constraints from tender documents.
• Ensure planning continuity between Sales and Works by developing standard decision-making plans, assumption notes, and automated summaries.
• Test the four-week operational planning solution on pilot sites, organize feedback, and deployment.
• Test the progress tracking solution to anticipate deviations, in conjunction with milestone tracking, and define roadmap needs.
• For each project, define needs and success criteria, manage costs, deadlines, and risks, organize testing and deployment, support change management, and manage publishers and integrators.
• Manage the Planning application portfolio's Run: contracts, services, service level agreements, licenses, renewals, and supplier costs.
• Monitor the IT architecture, APIs, and data collection, ensuring compliance with cybersecurity and architecture clauses and standards with experts.
• Manage operations: incident analysis and monitoring, L2 support, supervising the apprentice for L3 support, maintenance, production releases, budgets, risks, and service quality.
• Manage the Build/Run of César as Product Owner, a planning and billing tool for sales teams and cost estimation in tenders: needs, backlog, roadmap, steering committees, arbitration, integrator developments, acceptance testing, deployment, change management, and service quality.
• Ensure consistency with transformation programs focusing on performance and reporting, risk management, contractual management, data and capitalization, subcontracting, and document management.
• Planning and application management: planning tools, Build/Run application portfolio
• Systems and data: information systems, APIs, collection, quality, structuring, and reuse of data
• Technologies and domains: AI, cybersecurity, IT architecture, document management
• Scoped, tested, and deployed Planning transformation projects, with tracked needs, success criteria, costs, deadlines, and risks
• Knowledge base and evaluated solutions for the "Tender Planning Robustness" project
• Standard decision-making plans, assumption notes, and automated summaries ensuring continuity between Sales and Works
• Feedback and deployment of the four-week operational planning solution on pilot sites
• Roadmap of needs and upcoming commitments
• Operational management of the planning portfolio and the César tool, including backlog, acceptance testing, deployment, and service quality monitoring
• At least five years in IT project management, covering scoping, specifications, execution, deployment, multi-product Build/Run management, contracts, and business/IT coordination.
• Product Owner experience is appreciated.
• Knowledge of construction, cost estimation, or planning is appreciated.
• Project management, budgets, risks, prioritization, negotiation, and service provider management
• Build/Run management, contracts, incidents, maintenance, and production releases
• Knowledge of data, reporting, capitalization, AI, architecture, APIs, cybersecurity, and operations
• Business and strategic vision of the role of planning and its impacts beyond the application scope
• Transverse coordination and ability to anticipate dependencies
• Facilitation of workshops and steering committees, communication, summarization, and user support
• Rigor, autonomy, organization, discernment, prioritization, and transverse leadership

Project details

Yes — 2 days/week

• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: 78280 Guyancourt, France, FR
• Rate: 75-75 EUR/h
• Languages: French