Services Project Manager

About the job

Siemens Digital Industries Software is seeking a guide, initiative-taking individual for a Services Project Manager position within our Aerospace, Defense, and Transportation (ADT) Business Unit, working with our Aerospace & Defense customers and suppliers. As an ADT Services Project Manager, you will lead a large project with multiple delivery teams, helping our customers realize the value of Digital Thread solutions. You will establish and communicate clear project priorities and activities to ensure effective project management. This role serves as the point of contact to align the customer, partners, and Siemens delivery teams.

As part of a Professional Services team, you will collaborate efficiently with Consultants, Architects, Project Managers, Product Development, and other internal & external interfaces to ensure that the customer succeeds in their objectives. This position requires excellent interpersonal, leadership, process improvement, and interpersonal and financial acumen.

Responsibilities

• Work with Sales and Services Management to initiate, review, and acquire agreement on project governance with the customer.
• Define and communicate project roles and responsibilities.
• Drive the customer to realize value from Siemens PLM Solutions and guide the customer through the Siemens PLM Delivery Framework.
• Conduct partner management through detailed identification, analysis, and planning of actions to negotiate with and influence partners.
• Set up all required processes in alignment with all partners, establishing appropriate communication on all levels for a project.
• Proactively monitor the projects’ overall progress, resolve issues, and initiate corrective and preventive action as appropriate.
• Perform project issue and risk management, including planning, identification, analysis, response planning, and controlling.
• Use of A-PE to lead projects in adherence with Advantedge Agile Framework (AAF) and PM@Siemens Landmarks
• Implement organisational change at the project level to ensure the dependencies of the change are reflected and understood.
• Orchestrate project timeline to ensure timely delivery
• Review and identify critical paths and lead project dependencies.
• Perform project quality management, ensure the solution meets requirements, and lead compliance with standards, rules, and regulations.
• Perform project reviews and retrospectives regularly and foster the results and lessons learned into the organization to strengthen the Siemens PLM Delivery Framework.
• Ensure the project delivers to the approved budget and agreed margin, and that they are both regularly reviewed.
• Implement project management activities to control scope, cost, schedule, and quality.
• Advise the work of employees and subcontractors assigned to the project.
• Optimally communicate project progress with the customer and support customer adoption.
• Together with Engagement Management, identify and create additional opportunities within and beyond the ongoing project.
• Grow the business through follow-on service contracts or project change orders to scope.
• Must be open to an average of 30% - 50% travel

Required Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Technology, or an equivalent level of knowledge in PLM
• Multiple years of experience as a Project Manager for Siemens solutions or comparable enterprise solutions, such as Enovia, 3DEXPERIENCE, Windchill, Aras Innovator, or Agile
• Previous leadership experience with Enterprise PLM, ERP, or MES implementations with project budgets over $1M US
• Experience leading a group of professional architects and consultants during software implementation to achieve results
• Multiple years of team-leading experience in a customer-facing environment
• Connect with a high degree of creativity, self-confidence, and persuasiveness
• An initiative-taker with strong presentation skills at all levels throughout an organization
• Have a style characterized by an extreme level of integrity and trust based on ethics and Siemens values
• Results-oriented, organized, highly motivated, and diligent with an extreme level of energy/high sense of urgency
• Agile Practitioner and/or Scrum Master certification and prior experience (SAFe preferred)
• Certification in Project Management from the Project Management Institute (PMI) or International Project Management Association (IPMA), or equivalent

Qualified Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States. Qualified Applicants will not require employer-sponsored work authorization now or in the future for employment in the United States.

Preferred Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience

Experience collaborating with customers in the Aerospace & Defense industry is strongly preferred

Why us?

Working at Siemens Software means flexibility - Choosing between working at home and the office at other times is the norm here. We offer great benefits and rewards, as you'd expect from a world leader in industrial software. A collection of over 377,000 minds building the future one day at a time in over 200 countries. We're dedicated to equality, and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. All employment decisions at Siemens are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Bring your curiosity and creativity and help us shape tomorrow!

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