Senior Project Manager - France

Job Description

Senior Project Manager - France

Paris, France

About Us
AppDynamics is the Application Intelligence company. With AppDynamics, enterprises have real-time insights into application performance, user performance and business performance so they can move faster in an increasingly sophisticated, software-driven world. Our integrated suite of products is built on our innovative, enterprise-grade App iQ Platform that enables our customers to make faster decisions that enhance customer engagement and improve operational and business performance. AppDynamics is uniquely positioned to enable enterprises to accelerate their digital transformations by actively monitoring, analysing, and optimising complex application environments at scale which has led to proven success and trust with the Global 2000.

AppDynamics was acquired by Cisco in 2017 for a record breaking multiple. This acquisition reinforces Cisco's strategic direction and its shift to software-centric solutions, and provides AppDynamics with the resources and support to further accelerate the hyper growth of the business, and the career opportunities for our world-class teams.

About the Role

Join a team of record breakers and progress more than you’ve ever done before - helping customers transform themselves into digital first companies.

As a Project Manager, you will perform the lead role in managing AppDynamics implementations and delivery of projects for enterprise customers - on time, on budget, and maintaining billable utilization targets and NPS.

The primary responsibilities of the Senior Project Manager are to:

• Create and maintain project management deliverables, including project plan, project schedule, deliverables (e.g. status reporting), and key meeting materials.
• Establish and execute project governance including a plan for communication and collaboration among the Customer Team, Account Team and the PMO.
• Ensure all internal AD stakeholders are kept informed on the engagement - customer expectations, status (including dashboard reporting), and future engagement opportunities.
• Establish conditions of success (COS) with the customer early in the engagement and ensure these are reviewed and maintained periodically through the project life cycle.
• Establish and lead recurring governance meetings including preparation of materials and working with customer project manager and key internal and external stakeholders to review key project information.
• Perform PMO administration requirements including:
• Project setup and maintenance within PSA tool
• Accurate revenue and cost forecasting
• Precise project communications (to PMO and other internal stakeholders)
• Manage to plan – within parameters of cost, scope, schedule and quality.
• Manage change - identify, negotiate and execute contract change orders
• Manage risks and issues
• Track action items through to closure and document decisions
• Manage and maintain up to date and comprehensive project schedules
• Manage resources – driving team performance and ensuring efficient resource on boarding and off boarding
• Manage delivery - orchestrate quality and manage fulfillment of project deliverables to agreed expectations
• Manage transition from Sales to Delivery Team.

Required Experience

• At least 5 years experience at the Project Manager level within enterprise software
• Direct experience managing all phases of software implementation project lifecycle
• Exposure to managing multiple simultaneous projects and cross team dependencies
• Managed projects over 12 months in duration
• Managed diverse project teams and overseen at least 3 team members
• Managed projects of over $500,000 services budget
• Multiple languages and international experience preferred

Required Skills and Certifications

• Bachelor's degree level or equivalent
• PMP, PRINCE 2 Practitioner required
• ITIL Foundation required
• MSP Practitioner or PgMP preferred;
• MS Project and Office apps- advanced level skill
• PSA tool – advanced level skill
• Proven understanding of different software deployment methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, etc.)

Employee Benefits

We know that the award-winning culture at AppDynamics is something to brag about and as part of our commitment to our employees we also offer a wide ranging benefits package including but not limited to:

• Competitive compensation for your work
• Generous holiday / vacation policy and additional paid time off available to support volunteering activities
• Excellent Pension, Insurance and healthcare benefits
• Maternity & Paternity Support
• Employee and Family Assistance
• Participation in Cisco Employee Stock Purchase Program

Just a note

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