A Snapshot of Your Day
As part of the Onshore Asia Pacific (AP) Regional Unit of Siemens Energy Wind Power (SE WP), Australia and New Zealand project pipe- line brings significant value to the business, thus the PM Hub Head is a key role and overall responsible for the successful management and delivery of a project pipeline according, but not limited, to the following goals:
-Project portfolio P&L success, to ensure that the total projects managed all add value to the business.
-Effective and entrepreneurial leadership of the project teams to perform in accordance with SE WP Project Management (PM@SGRE) body of knowledge and collection of best- practices;
-Escalation at the portfolio environment level of external and internal issues;
-Value orientation combined with a detailed market understanding and benchmarking.
-Build effective communication and management of internal and external multi-stakeholders to achieve project portfolio objectives in SE WP best interests and customer satisfaction.
How You’ll Make an Impact
▪HSE Leadership:
-Ensures Safety is a pre-condition to perform the project works at all times;
-Ensures internal and external HSE standards and targets are achieved;
-Motivates all colleagues (and implements measures) to achieve Zero-Harm Policy;
-Promotes HSE awareness throughout the entire projects lifecycle;
-Ensures the project teams clearly understand that a proactive, well-coordinated and consistent HSE management is the foundation of the project works;
▪ Build Project Infrastructure:
-Benchmark on Good Industry Practices in the country to collaborate with Construction and Logistics regional functions systematically, developing and building a resilient and competitive wind project infrastructure;
-Collaborates with Construction, Logistics and Procurement functions to develop construction and in-land logistic capabilities for the market focusing on, but not limited to: Suppliers capacity assessments,Commercial Mechanisms and Contract Templates;
▪Leadership and Team Development:
-Sets high-performance values and result-oriented behaviours by example, and consistently insist on compliance;
-Responsibility for team building;
-Agrees targets and empowers Project Managers and delegates the execution and management of the projects;
-Actively seeks and provides feedback (e.g. team members, functional managers, peers and customers);
-Display management skills (e.g. consistency, problem- solving/prevention, time management) and takes responsibility for own work-life balance and engages team-members to do the same;
-Supports team-members professional development (e.g. Performance appraisal process, training, coaching);
-Involves the project team in all critical project issues;
-Demonstrates leadership to the functionally assigned and multicultural project teams, agrees targets and delegates effectively;
-Embraces change to do things differently in order to achieve
better results and manages resistance;
-Encourages an ownership culture within the project team;
-Ensures efficient Resource Management, obtaining commitments and reaching agreements on the planning and assignment of necessary resources and promoting an ownership culture;
-Ensures a proactive and effective Collaboration and Communication within the company to promote stakeholders’ commitment and contribution to fulfill the projects and portfolio targets;
▪Business Integrity:
-Adheres to all SE WP Business Conduct Guidelines (e.g. Tax Regulations, Delegation of Employees, Export Controls EHS, Compliance);
-Ensures compliance to standards, rules and regulations;
-Follows existing rules (e.g. tax regulations, arms-length principle, guarantees and export controls);
-Leads team members to act according to Business Conduct Guidelines;
-Involves the necessary corporate units (e.g. crisis management);
▪Driving for Results and Entrepreneurship:
-Stands for the overall responsibility on projects and portfolio to risk/opportunity and looks for core data to speed up the process;
-Decides the best course of action through effective decision- making, seeks relevant data and decides even when faced with incomplete information;
-Uses scenarios, root-cause analysis and shifting of perspective to find optimal solutions;
-Represents the projects and portfolio in relevant decision Boards, internally an externally;
-Acts with creativity, innovation and adaptability in face of obstacles or new events;
▪Strategic Orientation and Decision-Making including Analytical Skills:
-Develop a vision and mission for the department aligned with company strategic objectives, and share them with team to achieve high morale;
-Plans and establishes clear objectives and agreed priorities for the department;
-Identifies/ creates additional opportunities out of the ongoing projects and at portfolio level;
-Chooses the best course of action consistent with key assumptions, through effective and timing decision-making,monitors progress through metrics and reevaluates how well plan is working and whether it needs to change;
▪Value Orientation:
-Displays excellent understanding of how the business operates and adds value to customers;
-Promotes projects success as critical for long-term financial success of the company and one the main engines for profitable growth;
-Maximizes the value of delivering the portfolio projects according to business objectives and targets;
-Displays active leadership and participation in the projects;
-Adheres and promotes PM@SGRE processes to control projects progress to meet cost and schedule targets;
-Examines causes of value erosion and acts to eliminate or reduce them in collaboration with the different stakeholders;
▪Customer Focus:
-Actively gathers information on the customer and customer's objectives and manages their requirements and expectations;
-Actively builds and maintains positive and cooperative relationships with customer senior representatives;
-Actively and continual communicates with customer's senior representatives to detect relationship problems before they become serious and negotiates to resolved issues and disputes before they need to be elevated;
-At an early stage, informs customer, senior management and project teams of deviations from projects plans;
▪Requirements Management and Quality Management:
-Adheres and promotes company Integrated Management System;
-Ensures a Quality Management Plan is developed and updated during projects life cycle and the deliverables meet contractual requirements;
-Ensures project teams calibrates internal and contractual requirements, standards and codes and these are correctly transferred to Design and Bill of Materials checklists;
-Ensures a cross-functional process approach while retaining functional structure,
-Collaborates cross-functionally to ensure a high level quality of products and services provided by suppliers and that meet customer requirements and expectations;
-Ensures a complete and systematic Requirements Management and Quality Management to achieve customer satisfaction and reduce the costs of non-conformances;
-Ensure that identified non-conformances are properly recorded and corrective and preventive actions are implemented;
-Ensures systematic Learning in Projects through the utilization of experiences, as well as provides feedback from the projects execution, contributing to continuous improvement (i.e. how it can be done better, faster, or more cost effectively);
▪Portfolio and Project Financials:
-Lives full P&L responsibility for the project and portfolio financial results according to defined targets;
-Improves projects gross profit and cash-in forecasting, and optimizes capacity utilization of project related assets;
-Reviews the project proposals/order entry costing;
-Ensures regular financial controlling and reporting according to SE WP regulations;
-Identifies non-conformances and acts to minimize non- conformance costs;
-Ensures the proper assessment of the risks and opportunities and recognition in the projectfinancials estimates and calculations;
-Ensures change orders are executed and enhance projects profitability;
-Ensures disciplined Cost Management in the projects as a pre-requisite to proactively secure its financial targets;
-Ensures transparency about Project’s portfolio performance through Controlling and Updating Management;
▪Projects Planning, Controlling and Closure, including Execution:
-Supports project teams on the development of Project Management Plans and drives commitment to relevant planning elements and milestone results;
-Guides and supports project teams to proper plan and ramp-up the execution of site activities;
-Performs regular project status review meetings and decides on acceptance of milestone work results;
project plans and anticipate problems and resolve them in advance;
-Documents work results according to PM@SGRE framework and customer contractual requirements;
-Supports project teams to achieve projects completion and turnover to customers and internal Projects Closeout;
-Guides and supports project teamsto ensure proper Scheduling Management to successfully complete the projects on time;
-Ensures that project teams understand that good Documentation and Records Management is also essential to the successful fulfillment of project and portfolio information requirements and entire operation of the company;
▪Bid, Contract and Claim Management:
-Participates on the Sales process;
-Performs contracts review and analysis, and develops action plans concerning risks, opportunities and contractual obligations;
-Agrees with stakeholders the strategies for making / mitigating / defending claims;
-At an early stage identifies, drives, defends and mitigates claims
-Consults and involves the project teams in the identification of contractual changes and claims;
-Negotiates with stakeholders on changes and incorporates them into contracts;
-Establishes consistent Contract Management practices with the project team;
-Involves and collaborates with Legal Counsel when required;
▪Risk and Opportunity Management:
-Ensures a professional and integrative function of Risk and Opportunities Management process throughout the project’s life cycle, to achieve projects and portfolio targets;
-Ensures a continual and proactive monitoring and management of risks and opportunities and, when required, ensures an early escalation;
-Identifies and assesses risks and opportunitiess utilizing available measurement processes and tools;
-Devises suitable response plans for risks mitigation and opportunities maximization, and ensures the implementation of the planned measures;
-Implements procedures to solve all major issues with the necessary internal and external partners, prior to projects derailing;
-Monitors the progress with an integrated KPI tracking tool/system to enable early warning, prior to projects objectives deteriorating;
-Collaborates with stakeholders to perform post-project reviews and compilation of historical database;
▪Collaboration and Influencing including Negotiation and Conflict Management:
-communication with all relevant stakeholders in different countries/ regions, customers, partners, suppliers and other interest groups;
-Communicates across the company with internal contacts on opportunities for business and process improvements;
-Develops interpersonal relationships,effective communication and presentation and manages conflicts;
-Drives a multicultural communication and collaboration;
-Involves Procurement at an early stage, according to SE WP procurement processes and regulations;
-Facilitates and monitors effective team collaboration (e.g. coaching, training, cross-functional meetings)
-Cooperates closely with functional managers and multidisciplinary teams;
-Negotiates to resolve conflicts between technical disciplines and influence the probability of particular outcomes which have an impact on the projects and portfolio results;
-Ensures a proactive Collaboration and Communication Management approach to foster stakeholders’ consent and strength their contribution to fulfill the projects and portfolio
What You Bring
▪Bachelor or Masters Degree in a related field;
▪Project Management knowledge and minimum of 10 years’ experience in the Wind industry and in a leadership role with sizable scope for at least 5 years, preferable in the OEM side and windfarm construction;
▪Multicultural awareness and global project management experience;
▪Knowledge and experience in management of personnel and teams, finance and international construction contracts;
▪Excellent IT skills including MS Office/SharePoint and exposure to work with data analytics;
▪Excellent communication skills in English are essential, both verbal and written;
▪Excellent communication, negotiation skills and experience in customer relationship management;
▪Excellent time management skills;
▪Excellent team player with skills at influencing stakeholders;
▪Able to travel (domestic and international) at least 50% of the time
