Project Manager (Non-management position)

Project Manager (Non-management position)

Company:

Jeppesen Asia/Pacific Pte. Ltd.

Boeing is seeking a customer-facing Project Manager (Non-management position) reporting to the regional Manager of Crew Implementation in our Singapore location. 

As the selected candidate, you will successfully manage multiple customer software implementation projects across the Asia Pacific region through effective planning, scheduling and controlling.  Travel is expected, both between company offices globally, as well as to various customer locations.

This position is hybrid. This means that the selected candidate will be required to perform some work onsite at one of the listed location options. This is at the hiring team’s discretion and could potentially change in the future.

Position Responsibilities:

• Project Management: Applies extensive project management and customer experience while learning and adapting to Boeing and Jeppesen’s best practices framework to deliver project goals.

• Schedule Management: Create and maintain a project schedule for each project by estimating, identifying, and monitoring: overall project timeline, project milestones, tasks, deliverables, customer requirements, task dependencies, and critical paths.

• Scrum Master: facilitate scrum ceremonies (e.g. sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives); encourage effective communication and information exchange within the team and with stakeholders; coach the team to apply Agile principles and scrum practices; remove impediments; provide guidance and support to improve team performance and effectiveness.

• Cross Functional Leadership: Provides leadership, direction and integrates activities with other departments, Boeing and Jeppesen vendors, and partners to ensure successful implementation and support. Facilitation and roll out of Project Management best practices.

• Issue / Risk Management: Anticipates and identifies Risks and Issues that may impact implementation and develops and implements mitigation and corrective actions.

• Scope: Ensures the project remains focused on key objectives and goals. Develop and manage project expectations ensuring all applicable functional areas in Boeing and Jeppesen are engaged on the project. Monitors project to minimize scope creep.

• Communication Management: Using a variety of media, clearly conveys information and ideas to internal and external stakeholders in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.

• Change Management: Ensure proper change management procedures are followed to ensure scope is managed and additional work is captured and appropriately billed to customer.

• Mindset: Discovers new opportunities and solutions for problems by looking beyond current practices and using innovative thinking. Tries different and novel ways to deal with work problems and opportunities.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• 5+ years of external customer Project Management experience

• Experience managing complex software implementation projects

• Experience with Scrum/Agile methodologies with enterprise-level application development projects.

• Strong business acumen and relationship skills needed to build partnerships with customers, stakeholders, and peers.

• Excellent external and internal communication skills (e.g., writing, presentation)

• Ability to travel 30% of the time

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor's degree or higher with degree in Computer Science/Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, Science & Technology or equivalent

• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), or equivalent preferred

• Aviation industry expertise, ideally in the area of crew management solutions

• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications, including MS Project; Primavera experience is a plus

Other job-related information:

This requisition is an international, locally hired person.

Benefits and pay are determined in line with Singapore labor market practices. This is not an expat assignment.

Language Requirements:

Not Applicable

Education:

Not Applicable

Relocation:

Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.

Security Clearance:

This position does not require a Security Clearance.

Visa Sponsorship:

Employer willing to sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Contingent Upon Award Program

This position is not contingent upon program award

Shift:

Not a Shift Worker (Singapore)