Are you a problem solver, explorer, and knowledge seeker – always asking, “What if?”

If so, then you may be the new team member we’re looking for. Because at SAS, your curiosity matters – whether you’re developing algorithms, creating customer experiences or answering critical questions. Curiosity is our code, and the opportunities here are endless.

SAS Institute is currently seeking an Implementation Project Manager to join our Professional Services Division. Based in our French office, you will be responsible for delivering high-value, customer centric projects within SAS enterprise solutions for a variety of customers across the region.

What we do
SAS Institute is the global leader in the business analytics market. We service more than 80,000 of the largest companies and organizations in 148 countries across the globe. Through our software and services, we inspire our customers to transform data into intelligence. Our curiosity fuels innovation, pushing boundaries, challenging the status quo and changing the way we live.

When you join the SAS Institute Professional Services Division, you become part of a highly skilled and ambitious team of talented consultants and Engagement Managers where we solve critical business analytics challenges and provide superior client services for the largest local and international companies and public organizations across France. You will lead teams of consultants to deliver high quality, timely, profitable and valuable outcomes which are successful for both SAS and the customer.

What you’ll do
As an Implementation Project Manager at SAS you are relentless in ensuring high quality deliveries. You ensure that your projects deliver the customer the most value within the given scope, time and cost to meet our customer expectations.

You will:

• Support our sales organization and engagement managers when engaging with customers in defining new deliveries.
• Act as the primary Professional Services delivery partner for customers through-out the project; focused on building and developing strong relationship, resolving issues and influencing future business by playing key role in setting a vision to the customer.
• Define statements of work and project charters, risk and mitigation assessments, plans/schedules, project resourcing and status reporting.
• Manage internal and external stakeholders and apply strong governance processes, appropriate expectation management, robust change management principles and implement clear communication plans.
• Motivate the team through various and best suitable leadership styles.
• Own and manage either a single major or portfolio of differing projects across one or more accounts, countries and industry sectors.
• Take full ownership of the success of your projects, delivering solutions on time, within budget and in accordance with customers’ requirements for quality and functionality.
• Design and facilitate internal and external workshops and meetings for optimized outcome.
• Take part in the development of our French project management organization.

We expect that you:

• Have a IT consulting background with minimum 15 years of Project Management experience in implementing analytic solutions in different companies and different Project Management methodologies.
• Gets motivated as project manager for both smaller projects as well as big and complex projects.
• Have great and proven people management skills and superior stakeholder management skills
• Have great experience in running projects with distributed teams both from own, partner organizations and customer organizations with several different nationalities.
• Are curious, passionate, authentic and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.
• Fluent in English

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