Project Manager - IT

- Thorough professional know-how in one Sub Job, based on practical experience and theoretical foundation.

- Focus on applying and expanding acquired knowledge base.

- Application of knowledge in broader professional context.

- Basic level of professional judgment competence.

- Improves processes within specialized area.

- Impact on team results.

- Deep professional know-how and experience in one Sub Job Family.

- Transfers and applies know-how to / in various contexts.

- Solid professional judgment and problem solving competence.

- Improves existing processes and approaches.

- Proactively shares knowledge within own team (incl. virtual & matrix team).

- Impact on results in own area.

- Internally acknowledged member within specialist field.

Grows practical knowledge in technology field / business method:

- Solid knowledge of the theoretical foundation in a technical field or method with a focus on growing practical experiences.

- Customer awareness and business understanding.

- Important impact on team results and value added.

- Improves processes or technical components.

Develops high tech products / solutions / methods according to customer needs - Deep and specialized knowledge and experience in a technical field or business method.

- Focus on applying deep knowledge to find (new) solutions with an eye to the future.

- Use of customer and business understanding to optimize value added.

- Impact on results of own organization.

- Supports the organization's processes with respect to own technology field or business method.

Systematically develops new technical solutions / methods

- Comprehensive (deep and broad) knowledge and experience in a technical area or business method.

- Deep business and customer understanding.

- Impact on at least BU results.

- Systematic use of alternative technologies or business methods in the pursuit of new solutions.

- Creates significant value add.

- Decides on technology or methodology developments for specific areas.

- Marketing of single products, aggregates and components. Integration work not required, no customer specific effort.

- Combination of various products and /or systems. Customer specific engineering-, project planning, construction- and commissioning effort in large extent required. Comprehensive know how in respective industry required.

- Customer specific (holistic) solutions including service parts such as consulting, conception, system integration, construction, commissioning, placement of operating company, etc., (if needed, including purchasing & Integration of hardware, which is normally independent of manufacturer).

- Experience working within a Sector or Cross-Sector Business from a Headquarter perspective.

- The employee holds an internationally operating position, has regular contact to colleagues abroad. Located in home country, interacts frequently with other countries, but has not lived abroad. Or has spent less than 12 month abroad.

- Takes responsibility and works towards planning targets, overcoming obstacles, setbacks and uncertainty.

- Identifies risks and plans for contingencies to ensure delivery.

- Identifies opportunities in own area to contribute to the commercial success of the company.

- Actively links actions to relevant economic profit perspective.

- Always acts in a compliant manner and uses resources responsibly.

- Develops detailed understanding of the customer's needs, issues and priorities through routinely seeking customer feedback.

- Knows how organization performs against customer expectations.

- Works to improve customer satisfaction within the framework of the current product/service offered.

- Communicates good and bad news to customer in a timely manner.

- Understands the need for change.

- Changes existing plans to accommodate new information.

- Explicitly states acceptance of change and progress.

- Produces new ideas and approaches in relation to own role.

- Asks questions, tests assumptions and openly discusses issues, keeps commitments.

- Readily accepts and uses expertise and input from others, without regard to source or origin.

- Actively listens and responds to the concerns and feelings of others even when not explicitly stated.

- Builds informal networks internally and externally and views them as part of the value creation process.

- Appreciates the complexities and subtleties of individual differences and multicultural communication and interactions in the workplace.

- Understands specific cultural differences between regions or organizations that influence local dynamics or opportunities.

- Encourages the open expression of ideas and opinions in the group around what needs to be done.

- Respects concerns and limitations of individual team members without compromising standards of performance, assigns individual responsibility.

- Follows up on performance and compliance; checks progress against goals or milestones; takes responsibility for team performance.

- Keeps careful track of whether performance meets high standards or not and why.

- Tells people what they did right and wrong.

- Expresses encouragement to those who try to develop or who show improvement.

- Sends people to standard training programs without identifying the actual training objectives that should be met.

- Expresses thoughts and feelings candidly, truthfully, openly and directly (to employees, supervisor, or interviewer).

- Accepts and provides honest critical feedback.