Project Manager (offline)

Tasks and responsibilities:
• Preparation of project documentations, analysis of the requirements, writing proposals and business offers to clients
• Estimating project, schedule planning, risks management, regular follow up of plans
• Planning, coordination, and risk management
• Establishing necessary practices from Agile (Scrum, Lean, Kanban) or PMI, ITIL, Prince2 frameworks – whatever fits project the best
• Establishing proper Quality Assurance approach
• Managing changes and customer expectations – both formal and informal
• Customer relationship management, organizing visits of team to customer and vice versa
• You’ll need to be a leader for your team, not only manager

Professional requirements:
• Minimum of 2 years of prior experience in project management or project coordination
• Experience within software outsourcing industry is a must
• Experience managing teams of 6-10 or more people
• Experience managing 2 or more projects at the same time
• Practical experience doing requirements analysis, writing proposals and specifications
• Experience with several estimation techniques and good understanding how Quality Assurance should be organized and how to get customer’s buy-in
• Technical background is preferred (developer, tester, operations)
• Excellent written and spoken English

Personal requirements:
• English: Upper-Intermediate+
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to travel abroad for 1-2 weeks (typically during project start-up)
• Ability to work productively without supervision and in constantly changing environment
• Leadership, ability to involve various people into joint work

Project description

You will be working for Scandinavian customers and have team members mostly in Kyiv, but also in Bratislava, Oslo, Reykjavik, Copenhagen, or some other city. You must be comfortable working with stakeholders and team members who might be accessible only by teleconference. It is also important to be able to lead and collaborate with people who are not formally reporting to you.
Ideal candidate should be able to enter situation where different stakeholders have quite different needs and expectations, unclear budget, fuzzy scope, and ad hoc processes – and quickly take under control plans, communication streams, budget, KPIs and establish positive team spirit. Short-term business trips to Norway, Denmark, Iceland or Slovakia should be expected – after COVID period.

Company offers:
- Competitive compensation
- 20 days of paid vacation, 100% paid sick leaves (3 paid sick days without sick list)
- Advanced medical insurance program with unlimited fitness and swimming pool
- Free English and Norwegian Courses
- Flexible workplace (possible to combine remote work and work from office)
- Fully remote during quarantine
- High-end technics and gadgets
- Free access to leading professional trainings and events, professional certification
- Transparent career development and planned individual career path
- PE support by professional accountants

About Mates Marketing

Mates Marketing is a specialized company focused on offering lead generation services tailored to the US market. Our mission is to assist businesses by delivering high-quality leads and targeted traffic.

We are currently developing in-house software to efficiently manage all our marketing endeavors.

Company website:
https://matesmarketing.us

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/mates-marketing/