Lead Project Manager Lisboa

Lead Project Manager
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Our client is an international tech consulting company with over 25 years of experience, offering solutions to support companies' business and digital transformation.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate local deployment activities to ensure alignment with the global program schedule.
• Serve as the main liaison between the central (Core) team and local stakeholders.
• Represent the local entity in governance structures such as steering committees and progress meetings.
• Identify, engage, and manage key local stakeholders, including management, business units, IT, and HR.
• Align local expectations with the overall deployment objectives.
• Oversee local data cleaning and migration activities in compliance with central guidelines.
• Ensure the accuracy and integrity of migrated data.
• Guarantee that local regulatory and fiscal requirements are considered in the system rollout.
• Supervise the creation and execution of
  -
  - end business acceptance test scenarios.
• Ensure proper documentation of test results and timely reporting of issues.
• Adapt and localize training materials; organize and lead
  - user training sessions.
• Support the update or creation of local SOPs.
• Identify and address risks and deployment issues in coordination with the central Change Manager.
• Monitor and manage resistance to change, facilitating user adaptation to new processes.
• Gather feedback from users and recommend improvements.
• Ensure effective communication with stakeholders and develop local communication materials (e. g. , newsletters, posters, info sessions).
• Lead cutover and
  - live support activities, including issue escalation and resolution.
• Manage
  -
  - live (hypercare) support, collect feedback, and contribute to continuous improvement.
• Keep all local project documentation up to date.

Requirements:

• Proven experience in project management, ideally in supporting international information systems (IS) deployments.
• Familiarity with SAP is a plus, but not mandatory.
• Ability to manage local constraints, resources, and timelines within a global project structure.
• Strong coordination and communication skills to bridge local and central teams.
• Demonstrated ability in change management and
  - user adoption support.
• Strong analytical and
  - solving capabilities for resolving deployment issues.
• Experience in writing training documentation and conducting user training sessions.