Sr Principal Professional Services Project Manager

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The Role

Aspen Technology has an immediate need for a Sr. Project Manager in the Professional Services Project Management Office organization in the LATAM region. Successful candidate will be responsible for the delivery of cutting-edge technology projects to market leading companies. This is an assignment within the organization with a great degree of influence and visibility with clients.

Additionally, this role will require the administration of active service contracts for a major oil and gas company, ensuring measurement documents are completed and invoiced, AspenTech service employees are properly registered, ASO medical exams are kept up to date for each AspenTech service employee, and regular meetings with that major oil and gas company and Brazil Administration team are conducted to ensure HR documents are delivered and certificates of local content are issued.

Your Impact

• Strategically oversees, monitors, and manages projects.
• Delivering software implementation projects on budget and on schedule with high customer satisfaction.
• Execution of all project management phases from initiation through delivery to closeout.
• Functional supervision of contractors, consultants and engineers assigned to the projects.
• Compliance with all reporting, project administration, and documentation requirements.
• Communicate and develop relationships with clients.
• Ensures a high degree of customer satisfaction through world-class delivery practices.
• Work collaboratively among teams:  R&D, Support, Product Management, Sales and other organizations.
• Bringing projects back on track through implementation of changes, clear leadership and best practices.

What You'll Need

What you will need:

• Minimum of six years project management leadership experience with IT initiatives
• Experience in process industry (preferably oil&gas, petrochemicals or related)
• Experience in managing multiple projects impacting different business functions and multiple locations
• Experience with international customers mainly in the LATAM region (partially also APAC)
• Excellent analysis skills and ability to translate business requirements into project deliverables and tasks.
• Excellent communications skills (written and oral), with ability to listen and articulate status and issues. 
• Experience in creating detailed project plans, meaningful presentations and accurate financial reports
• Ability to adopt and tune communication to accommodate different levels of stakeholders.
• Team building and management skills, to bring a diverse group together to deliver required business results.
• Leadership through influence, rather than exercising leadership via formal hierarchy.
• Technical understanding to enable effective delivery of projects including new systems implementations
• Proficiency in key areas of project management including scope, time, cost, quality, risk and procurement.
• Customer Focus – ensure customer satisfaction and delivery success and establish long-term relationships.
• Problem Solving ability - identify key issues, develop & evaluate alternative solutions and improvements.
• Must be able and willing to travel at least 25% of time, including international travel.  
• Industry recognized Project Management certification desirable.
• Experience in both waterfall and agile project management desirable.

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