Senior IT Project Manager

Location: Brussels

Work Regime: Full-time, 2 office days per week

Start Date: 17/11/2025

Duration: 12 months

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of project proposals or plans, determining timeframe, budget, procedures, staffing requirements, and resource assignments.
• Define overall project governance, organization, deliverable scope, and associated responsibilities.
• Oversee business, technical, organizational, management, and financial aspects of the project.
• Regularly report project progress at all levels, including senior management and/or the sponsor/client.
• Challenge and negotiate changes in project specifications or scope with the project sponsor/client as required.
• Coordinate a team of specialists to implement project tasks.
• Act as the interface and facilitator between the project sponsor/customer and various IT services involved in the project.
• Negotiate and manage contracts with external suppliers with the support of specialized teams.
• Analyze requirements with the project sponsor/customer and support from Enterprise Architect/Application Architects to evaluate project feasibility.
• Lead projects requiring the ability to deal with changes and instability in project management processes, strategy, and frameworks.
• Present the project convincingly and win buy-in from the sponsor/client, possibly using support from business or technical subject matter experts.
• Regularly lead improvement initiatives.
• Manage relationships with external suppliers at the project level.
• Performance and achievements are subject to periodic review against targets.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Strong leadership skills to direct staff and resolve issues ensuring project goals and requirements are met on time and with quality.
• Good business and technical understanding gained over several infrastructure and application development projects.
• Interpersonal skills to influence decisions taken with the project sponsor/client.

Desired Skills:

• Experience in complex environments with regulatory and organizational constraints.
• Ability to lead projects of unusual size, timeframe, or complexity.
• Proficiency in English.