What will you be bringing to the team?

📍Our UniQue people come from a variety of different backgrounds and industries, with different skill sets and approaches, but they have one thing in common: a passion for technology and innovation! For the Research and Development Project Manager position you will be involved with: 📍Project and Issue Management: Lead and manage multiple R&D projects simultaneously, ensuring adherence to project timelines, budget, and quality standards. 📍Cross-Functional Coordination: Collaborate closely with R&D teams, engineering, product management, and other stakeholders to define and produce project requirements, objectives, and deliverables. Strong communication skills are needed for contacting and managing both contracting authority and consortium members. 📍Resource Management: Allocate resources effectively to ensure project milestones are met, including managing internal resources and external vendors or partners. 📍Risk Management: Identify potential risks, develop mitigation strategies, define assignees, to minimize project disruptions and ensure successful project delivery. 📍Financial Management: Manage project budget and payments and cooperate with the Financial and Administration Manager to track expenses, and ensure spending aligns with project objectives and project funding rules. 📍Contract Management: Manage in close cooperation with the Financial and Administration Manager and the internal Legal Department the needed contracts at all project / stakeholder levels. 📍Documentation, Reporting, Reviews/audits: Manage accurate project documentation archiving, including project plans, status reports, written deliverables, developed software source code and risk registers. 📍In addition, provide regular updates to senior management and stakeholders on project progress, risks, and issues. Moreover, participate actively at the preparation and execution of project reviews/audits, when needed. 📍Quality Assurance: Ensure that all deliverables meet quality standards and regulatory requirements, based on predefined objectives and KPIs. Implement quality control processes and conduct reviews as necessary. 📍Dissemination and Exploitation Management: Drive continuous dissemination tasks based on predefined/agreed plan to succeed the needed project’s effective publicity. In addition coordinate and finalize the needed Intellectual Property and Exploitation Plans, identifying opportunities for commercialization of the project’s results/outputs.

Requirements

📍What do you need to succeed in this position? 📍Your experience, skill set and qualifications are going to help you succeed in this position, moving forward. We would like you to have: 📍A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (Engineering, Science, or related discipline). An Advanced degree (e.g., Master's or Ph.D.) is preferred. 📍Proven experience (4+ years) in project management, preferably in a research and development environment. 📍Strong understanding of R&D processes including funding programme rules. 📍Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to motivate and coordinate cross-functional teams. 📍Strong knowledge and experience with project management tools and collaboration software (e.g., Microsoft Office and Project, Basecamp, Google Workspace). 📍The Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize tasks effectively. 📍Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive and results-driven approach. 📍Experience working at ICT sector is desirable. Any Project Management certification is a plus. 📍Excellent Oral and Written communication in the English language is mandatory. Good knowledge of French language is a plus.