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Role Overview
Sr Principal Professional Services Project Manager at Aspen Technology, supporting the Middle East region.
Company Overview
Aspen Technology is driven by its people and their aspiration to push boundaries, overcome challenges, and find better ways of working. The company offers rich career development programs, community service projects, and social events that foster relationship building across a global community.
Role Purpose
Lead the delivery of cutting-edge technology projects for market-leading organizations in the process industry, ensuring successful execution from initiation through completion. This is a highly visible role offering significant influence with internal stakeholders and clients, with the opportunity to drive project success and deliver measurable business value.
Key Responsibilities
Project Leadership & Execution
- Strategically monitor and manage projects across multiple locations and business functions.
- Deliver software implementation projects on budget and on schedule with high customer satisfaction.
- Execute all project management phases from initiation through delivery to closeout.
- Bring projects back on track through implementation of changes, clear leadership and best practices.
Team & Resource Management
- Provide functional supervision of contractors, consultants and engineers assigned to the projects.
- Build and manage diverse teams to deliver required business results.
- Work collaboratively among teams including R&D, Support, Product Management, Sales and other organizations.
- Lead through influence rather than formal hierarchy.
Client & Stakeholder Relations
- Communicate and develop relationships with clients.
- Ensure a high degree of customer satisfaction through world-class delivery practices.
- Adapt and tune communication to accommodate different levels of stakeholders.
- Establish long-term customer relationships and ensure delivery success.
Governance & Administration
- Comply with all reporting, project administration, and documentation requirements.
- Create detailed project plans, meaningful presentations and accurate financial reports.
- Manage scope, time, cost, quality, risk and procurement across all projects.
Problem Solving & Analysis
- Identify key issues, develop and evaluate alternative solutions and make improvements.
- Translate business requirements into project deliverables and tasks.
Qualifications & Experience
- Minimum of three (3) years of project management leadership experience with IT initiatives.
- Minimum of ten (10) years of project management experience overall.
- Experience in the process industry, preferably oil & gas, petrochemicals or related sectors.
- Experience managing multiple projects impacting different business functions and multiple locations.
- Experience with international customers, mainly in the Middle East region; experience in Eastern Europe and India is also desirable.
- Industry recognized Project Management certification is desirable.
- Experience in both waterfall and agile project management is desirable.
Skills & Competencies
- Excellent analysis skills and ability to translate business requirements into project deliverables and tasks.
- Excellent written and oral communications skills, with ability to listen and articulate status and issues.
- Technical understanding to enable effective delivery of technology projects including new systems implementations.
- Proficiency in key areas of project management including scope, time, cost, quality, risk and procurement.
- Team building and management skills.
- Customer focus and commitment to satisfaction and delivery success.
- Problem solving ability to identify issues, develop and evaluate alternative solutions and make improvements.
Additional Information
- Must be able and willing to travel at least 25% of time, including international travel.