R&D Project Manager

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This position reports to

R&D Department Lead

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to create products, systems, services, or technologies for ABB's business units. Each day, you will lead and facilitate the execution of one or more Research and Development (R&D) sub-projects of limited complexity. You will also showcase your expertise by achieving associated milestones, targets, and desired outcomes. You will be mainly accountable for: • Project leadership. Leads local and cross-functional project/s with limited complexity and/or sub-project of a complex project as responsible for all elements of the project/s. Motivates and leads internal and/or external resources to accomplish all tasks and milestones. • Project execution and control.Manages the project team allocated to the project, defining, with key stakeholders, the scope of work, cost/budget, resources required, time schedule and detailed work allocation. Monitors and controls project cost and financials. Formalizes acceptance of the project and brings all the project elements to a conclusion. Ensures project results are transferred to relevant line organization or department responsible. Captures lessons learned. • Projects, processes and tools. Ensures project follows sound methodology and execution practices in accordance with standard ABB internal directives and procedures. Ensures projects follow external standards etc. that influence activities and targets. • Manage uncertainties and risks, Identifies, contains and reduces risk. Ensures appropriate handling of change requests. Ensures transparency around unforeseen results/events and identified risks and makes sure that they are properly prioritized, managed and communicated. • Collaboration .Uses own technical domain knowledge to provide technical support to colleagues or other functional teams. • Value management .Ensures understanding of customer value. Takes into consideration requirements and demands coming from customers and from different ABB functions (sales, supply, production, etc.). Acts to ensure customer satisfaction and expectations. • Stakeholder relations. Serves as the key contact for the project stakeholders. Effectively communicates appropriate information to stakeholders in a timely manner and to achieve desired understanding and support. • Networking. Manages relationships with stakeholders, internal functions, other R&D teams in Technology Center and/or Corporate Research Centers and external relevant parties (e.g. customers, academia).

Qualifications for the role

• Master degree
• PMP certified preferred
• Above 3 years of working experience as project leader or project manager
• Skills and real hands-on on change control, risk management, stakeholder management , resource planning and project macro scheduling etc.
• Business level in verbal and written English

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