Technical Project Manager

Project Manager

Location: Bern, Switzerland – hybrid

Salary: CHF90,000-110,000 plus excellent benefits package

About the Opportunity

Our client is a specialist technology company providing advanced software solutions to major telecommunications organisations around the world.

They are looking for a Project Manager with strong core PM skills to lead customer-facing technology projects from planning through delivery.

This is a genuine Project Manager role, not a Scrum Master or Delivery Lead position. The role combines structured governance, commercial control, stakeholder management and technology delivery. Telecoms or GIS experience is useful but not essential.

Role & Responsibilities

As a Project Manager, you will own customer projects from planning through delivery, ensuring alignment to scope, timescales, budgets and customer expectations.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading customer-facing technology projects from initiation through delivery
• Developing and maintaining project plans, schedules and milestones
• Maintaining RAID logs and managing risks, issues, actions and dependencies
• Operating formal change control across scope, cost and schedule
• Managing project budgets, forecasts, costs, delivery hours and resource utilisation
• Leading internal and client-facing project meetings
• Providing regular project status, financial and governance reporting
• Monitoring milestones, deliverables and project dependencies
• Identifying and resolving escalated project issues
• Managing stakeholder expectations throughout the project lifecycle
• Coordinating project teams, technical specialists and customer stakeholders
• Supporting and mentoring members of the Project Management Office
• Contributing to the improvement of PMO processes and controls
• Maintaining knowledge of company technologies and PM best practice

GIS,Telecom,Project Management Skills,Technology

Key Requirements

You will be a hands-on Project Manager with clear ownership of governance, financial control, risk, change and delivery within a technology environment.

Essential skills and experience include:

• 3+ years' hands-on Project Management experience within software, technology or enterprise IT
• Proven ownership of end-to-end project delivery
• Proven external client-facing project leadership experience
• Strong practical knowledge of PM methodologies and governance such as PMI/PMBOK, PRINCE2, IPMA or HERMES
• Experience managing project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies and resources
• Project financial management including budgets, forecasting, cost control and reporting
• Practical management of RAID logs, risks, issues, actions and dependencies
• Experience operating formal scope and change control
• Experience delivering software implementation, integration, migration or deployment projects
• Strong stakeholder management, including senior and C-level customer contacts
• Experience coordinating cross-functional technical and business teams
• Excellent communication skills and working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project

Desirable:

• PMP certification or strong knowledge of PMI / PMBOK
• Previous supervisory or people management experience
• Experience within telecommunications, network technology, fibre or OSS/BSS
• Exposure to GIS or network inventory platforms such as Smallworld or Ericsson Network Engineer