Operational Project Management / PMO - Czech based

AKT Global is one of the leading People Experience Digital Solution consultancies. We partner with our customers across EMEA and North America to create exceptional employee experience and build future-ready HR functions. Our People Advisory practice provides strategic guidance on HR transformation, while our Digital HR Practice provides implementation, development and support for a comprehensive SAP-centric portfolio including SuccessFactors, Qualtrics, Fieldglass and Concur.

AKT is hiring a Seasoned Project Management Operations professional (PMO) / Junior Project Manager, to work in alliance with Project Managers in the delivery of SAP SuccessFactors implementation projects, and to manage Czech based projects of small to medium scale.

Reporting to the Project Management Officer Team Lead, this role is open to candidates based in Czech Republic.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide effective support to global team Project Managers (PM) and project teams during the project lifecycle.
• Manage Czech based projects of small to medium size.
• Monitor and control project performance and deliverables against time, cost, and quality.
• Manage the team open issues via RAID log and proactively follow-up on activities, ensuring required results and deadlines are met and raising red flags as required.
• Control project budget, track project cost effectiveness, raise red flags to PM as required, work in alliance with PM to execute mitigation plans, report on budget status to management providing insightful and up to date information on the status background.
• Control resources utilization and assignments ensuring sufficient and fitting resources are booked in advance and reporting on expected future resource plans, aligned with the resource strategy and plan defined by the PM
• Ensure project is managed in line with AKT project management methodologies and internal procedures
• Verify project routines are maintained and proactively coordinate required project activities with internal and external resources as required
• Lead internal weekly project meetings and present project budget health status to management as required
• Work closely with excellent cooperation and coordination with the project manager to support the project management activities.
• In global projects - Stand-in for project managers with customer-facing activities when required
• From time to time, manage global spot projects end to end

Requirements:

• Minimum 3 years of experience as PMO / Project Manager
• High level of English and Czech (verbal and written) – a must
• Professional presentation and communication skills (both written and oral)
• Strong action management capability
• Experience working in global companies
• Professional ability in all Microsoft Office applications (Excel, MS-Project, Word, PPT)
• A bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering or a related field – an advantage
• Familiarity working with information systems - an advantage

Personal Skills:

• Organized, being able to multitask, prioritize tasks and meet deadlines
• Analytical and capable of exercising sound judgment
• Autonomous and capable of taking proactive action with little or no direction
• Strong action management capability
• Ability to motivate others to action
• Strong ability to "make things happen" – coordinating between people, following up on them, helping to solve problems or direct towards problems solving
• Displays a "can-do" attitude, seeing all ways in which things CAN be accomplished despite possible obstacles

AKT Offers:

• A wide range of benefits and opportunities for career growth
• Flexible working hours
• Stimulating and collaborative working environment
• Internal knowledge transfer, training, and coaching
• International business environment (offices in India, Israel, North America, UK, France and Czech Republic)