Project Director

Responsibilities

• Endorse successful transition to the project and contribute to prepare, organise and validate the project launch:

• Establish and update project requirements baseline in a collaborative work with the Bid Manager and the Capture Leader

• Establish and update project execution baseline (project structure, work package description, partners and supplier contractual data, management plans, costs, budgets and financial structure, resourced schedule)
• Establish and update project key decision data (contingencies, strategy, business case)
• Initialise the project: identify the key project stakeholders, set the project team, organise the project structuring activities, start-up project activities and identify and allocate the source project requirements
• Manage the financial aspects of the acquisition strategy: suppliers consultation and negotiation, signing contract, contract's execution and closure
• Lead the project launch review and involves all stakeholders: project team, Management Plan and associated documents, industrial scenario, project charter, team charter…

• Supervise the PMs to, or to directly (for major or critical projects) execute, monitor and control the project:

• Start the work packages

• Control the project and ensure the respect of the stakeholders' commitments, while mastering risks and opportunities
• Control requirements, costs and schedule during all the project life cycle
• Manage project quality and customer and stakeholders overall satisfaction
• Manage legal and contractual requirements including handling disputes
• Conduct regular progress review meetings, reporting the project progress to the company senior management
• Close the project (archiving of documents, closing of the expenditure authorizations) by capitalizing and sharing on enterprise experience

Requirements

• 12+ years or above experience in project management or relevant technical management, preferably on Transportation systems
• Degree holder with Engineering/Computer Science Background
• Project planning, cost estimation and budget control, risk and opportunity analysis
• Must have strong organization, time management, communication and people skills, be able to multi-task
• PMP / IPMA holder is preferred
• Willing to travel
• Good knowledge of commercial contract management
• Good negotiation skill & assertive
• Good command of written and spoken English and Thai