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Project Manager II – Business Intelligence-Massachusetts

Project Manager II – Business Intelligence-Massachusetts
Job # 6073
Job Type: Full Time, regular direct position
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree and 5+ to 7 years of experience.
Management Experience Required – No

Willingness to Travel – Occasionally Must have Business Intelligence, SAP, BW, BO and financial background. Manages global business intelligence projects. Provides the leadership for functional and/or technical analysis, development, and implementation of enterprise business intelligence capabilities. Provides timely portfolio status updates to the Enterprise Project Management Office (PMO). Responsible for assembling project teams, assigning individual responsibilities, identifying appropriate resources, and developing plan and schedule to ensure timely completion of projects. Effectively coordinates the activities of internal and external resources in a matrix environment with cross Global Business Unit (GBU) partners. Follows standards in all projects as set forth by the Enterprise PMO. Provide daily operational and user support as needed . Communicates with Enterprise PMO and business executive management regarding project status. Works with senior business management and IS Leadership Team (ISLT) to establish priorities among identified projects. Participates in all corporate programs as directed by the Enterprise PMO and senior management in the Global Information Systems (GIS) organization. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned. Executes, in the form of projects, multi-year process enablement roadmaps aligning with S&N global strategy and technology standards. Works closely with business partners across multiple business units to define business requirements, determine functional approaches and align business intelligence projects with overall company strategic objectives. Implement process improvements and support organization change management efforts as necessary to sustain change and realize benefits related to assigned projects. Work with business partners and IT department representatives to drive resolution of cross-GBU, cross-GIS issues and manage risk for assigned projects. Leads global, distributed, cross-functional teams assigned to deliver benefits to the business. Complies with Enterprise PMO methodology to track, measure and phase gate review project metrics, schedule, budget and issues. Promote effective communications between the core teams, extended teams and the rest of the organization. Supports and adheres to all policies, procedures and standards, including GIS Guiding Principles, Project and Change Management processes, Internal and External Health & Safety, Quality, Regulatory and Finance compliance, and support of Internal and External Audits. Prepares and builds business cases for proposed projects. Leverages informal and formal contacts to overcome conflicts and blockages. Skilled at internal/external consulting and relationship management. Demonstrated ability in conflict resolution, issues and change management. Understanding of legal issues and dealing with their resolutions for the enterprise projects. Ability to express complex technical concepts effectively, both verbally as well as written, to diverse groups at all organizational levels. For Funds, Costs or Profits: Accountable to business and ISLT sponsors for successful project execution within budget and schedule. Budget authority up to $5 million. For Supervision: Directs and manages global, multi-cultural, virtual teams in order to successfully execute projects. Projects affect multiple global locations. Project teams may exceed 30 FTE in a globally matrixed organization. For Internal and External Relationships: Works in a matrixed organizational role reporting, for project purposes, to both GIS and business executive management. Communicates and works with GBU business and GIS VP/Group Director/Directors and Managers on a daily basis concerning strategic, operational and tactical issues impacting project solution delivery, business processes, applications and systems. Supports executive level meetings as required. Coordinates and negotiates with external vendors when necessary to resolve systems issues or explore future capabilities. The successful candidate must have excellent interpersonal skills and communication abilities. The job holder must win the confidence of individuals at all levels, both inside and outside of the group, to foster teamwork and vision for the growth of the organization and support the vision and goals of the GIS organization.========================================

Thank you
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Abbas Masnoon
PPCG, Inc.
Professional Placement Consulting Group, Inc.
A Nationwide Professional & Executive Search Firm
Tel: 508-234-6674
resume@ppcginc.com

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JOb: EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL’S STARTING GRANT

EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL’S STARTING GRANT
The Starting Grant was created by the European Research Council as a response to insufficient funding opportunities for young researchers who are at an important developmental stage in their careers, and in recognition that researchers need to be provided with the means for early career independence.  The Starting Grants support projects carried out by individual research teams, which are headed by a single “Principal Investigator” of any nationality and may include additional team members. They are awarded and managed according to simple procedures that maintain the focus on scientific excellence, encourage creativity and risk-taking, and combine flexibility with accountability. The grant scheme is operating on a “bottom-up” basis without predetermined topics or thematic priorities.

Selection Criterion: Principal Investigator’s potential to perform world-class research / Quality of the proposed frontier research project
Requirements:
Candidates can be of any nationality, and must have obtained their PhD (or equivalent degree more than two years but less than ten years prior to the opening date of the relevant call for proposals (justified extensions of this period may be accepted, see ERC guide for applicants – grant Schemes) / Intention to work within EU Member States or Associated States.
Features: Amount of funding: up to € 2.0 M per grant / Duration per grant: Up to 5 years Depending on the subject area of a research proposal there are three deadlines for proposal submission. It is up to the applicant to choose and decide on the most appropriate ERC peer review evaluation panel and the corresponding deadline. Applicants must submit their proposals before the deadline of the selected ERC Panel. The panel structure and the descriptors for each panel can be found here.

Applications for the Starting Grant for Physical Sciences and Engineering (PE) are due on 28/10/2009
Applications for the Starting Grant for Life Sciences (LS) are due on 18/11/2009

Applications for the Starting Grant for Social Sciences and Humanities (SH) are due on 09/12/2009.

For more information, please go to: http://erc.europa.eu/index.cfm

Technorati Tags: Call For Proposals, Career Independence, Developmental Stage, Equivalent Degree, Erc, Eu Member States, Frontier Research, Funding Opportunities, Individual Research, Nationality, Panel Structure, Peer Review, Principal Investigator, Proposal Submission, Research Proposal, Risk Taking, Selection Criterion, Subject Area, Support Projects, Thematic Priorities

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