Project Manager

**Mission/Position Headline**:
Develops and/or manages customer projects (category C1), according to defined Project Management (PM) standards and customer requirements, and with end to end responsibility for economic results, quality, schedule, and EHS.

**Areas of Responsibility**:
**Empowerment**:

- Drives own empowerment with adequate signature authorization and target agreement to manage the project as entrepreneur according the organizational standards
- Stands for overall responsibility on project results including budget, financial management of risks, opportunities, claims, scheduling and EHS; acts as owner of his/her project

**Manage the project throughout the project Life Cycle until final acceptance (FAC)**:

- Coordinates planning of Cat C project together with Sub Project Managers and decides on allocation of resources
- Clarifies specifications of complete project scope.
- Drives project progress continuously with milestones and budgets and initiates actions to minimize nonconformance cost
- Develops action plans and handles relevant planning elements and work results
- Sets up and maintains the Siemens Project Management Plan including Quality Management Plan
- Effectively collaborates with relevant partners in the sales/project initiation phase
- Performs contract reading and derives actions concerning risks, opportunities and contractual obligations
- Drives technical solutions and integrations of all (sub-)systems
- Ensures proper ramp-up and execution on site
- Holds regular project status meetings and organizes acceptance of work results
- Documents all work results according to the valid standards
- Manages acceptance (tests) and final project handover/closure in a timely manner

**Manage Customer Requirements**:

- Builds fruitful relationships to customer representatives
- Manages customer expectations and solves occurring issues
- Consults with customers on technical solutions, together with Sales Manager, Key Account Manager and Siemens R&D organization
- Actively gathers information on the customer and customer's strategies and manages requirements and targets

**Develop strategies for the project**:

- Acts as advisor for his line/senior management
- Develops and considers strategic targets for own project in line with responsible business manager
- Represents the project in the relevant decision boards internally and externally
- Identifies/creates additional opportunities within his/her ongoing projects

**Manage project finances**:

- Takes full responsibility for the financial results
- Verifies the project proposal/order entry costing
- Ensures regular financial controlling and reporting along the complete project lifespan
- Optimizes the project gross profit
- Identifies non conformances and takes measures to minimize the impact
- Ensures that the results of risk assessments are appropriately reflected in project calculation
- Fosters change order approach consequently with adequate margin contribution

**Manage project team**:

- Agrees targets and work packages with project team and delegates defined work packages
- Holds and seeks feedback pro-actively (e.g. team members, managers, customers)
- Demonstrates leadership to functionally assigned intercultural staff
- Takes responsibility for own and supports team-members' work life balance
- Supports team-members' personal development
- Fosters ownership culture within the project team
- Cooperates closely with line managers and experts
- Facilitates and monitors effective team collaboration also in virtual environment
- Regularly performs lessons learned activities and feeds the results into own project and organization

**Manage stakeholders**:

- Conducts stakeholder analysis and manages efficient communication with relevant stakeholders (e.g. customers, partners, suppliers, authorities)
- Actively manages and solves conflicts
- Drives intercultural communication and collaboration
- Selects and involves partners/subcontractors based on project needs
- Involves procurement at an early stage and other relevant stakeholders (e.g. legal, compliance, EHS)

**Manage contracts, risk/opportunities and change orders/claims**:

- Follows the relevant LoA process as designated Project Manager
- Assesses and manages contracts including supplier contracts
- Manages an overall project with onshore and offshore part according to the New Collaboration Model if applicable
- Negotiates with stakeholders on change requests and incorporates them into contracts
- At an early stage identifies claim potential and works on mitigation/avoidance strategies
- Proactively drive and negotiate opportunities
- Ensures monitoring and management of risks and opportunities
- Devises suitable strategies for risk mitigation and ensures the implementation of the risk mitigating measures

**Manage compliance to standards, rules and regulations**:

- Leads project members to act according to the Business Conduct Guidelines following the rules (e.g. tax regu