Associate Manager

Company Description SAFIRA develops Information Technology Solutions and offers IT Management Services to leading Financial, Insurance, Energy and Telco & Media companies. The company reached an outstanding reputation and acknowledgement in sophisticated and high demanding market segments through its focus on excellence of service, customer satisfaction, and innovative solutions that produce tangible business results. Founded in 1997, SAFIRA currently employs a team of 170 IT professionals, holding more than 200 technological and Project Management certifications. According to Exame, SAFIRA is a Best Place to Work for the 6th year in a row. SAFIRA has its headquarters in Lisbon (Portugal), and offices in Warsaw (Poland), Barcelona (Spain) and London (UK). Job Description Safira is reinforcing its management structure by hiring an Associate Manager position which will be responsible for: - Full management of Safira's projects: quality, schedule, budget, profit, team, client satisfaction; under direct supervision of a manager;- Ensuring proper use of methodology, tools, procedures and any other resources available to develop projects, assist or coach team members on project management (guarantee knowledge share among the team);- Building and leveraging relationships with clients' project key-players, e.g., client's directors, process owners, key users; - Business development around New customers and New solution offerings; - Ensuring project success: quality, schedule, budget, business value, clearly communicated goals to the team and to the client;- Participation in the project / solution sales cycle to build a costumer proposal by defining the objectives, scope, methodology, deliverables and estimate the staffing requirements. Qualifications - Six or more years of relevant experience to this function;- Commercial activities experience;-  Client facing skills are mandatory - presentation, facilitation, written and verbal communication;-  Previous experience in tasks management, team allocation, deliverables and priorities according to project plans, scope, margin and client objectives;- IT Services background (Computer Science degree and being dedicated on PM for two or more years, or having a Management degree and having three or more years managing IT projects; - Authonomy; - Business Value sense;- Proficiency in English, Spanish is a plus;- Availability to travel. Additional Information If you are looking for a new professional challenge and identify yourself with this project, please send us your updated resume and your direct contact.