Management of one or more digitalisation projects, including planning, scoping and control of delivery by external contractors, under the supervision of the responsible official;

Manage and follow up projects in all their life cycle phases (inception, business analysis, elaboration, construction, and transition and maintenance);

Manage and follow up related activities, in particular those of external contractors, and the interdependencies of the several contractors’ activities, to ensure end-to-end delivery of all activities in a timely manner, typically towards a stringent policy deadline imposed by legislation.

To follow up development and conformance testing activities of external partners: Member States and/or Traders;

Set up and enforce the respect of organisation, procedures and project office tasks, raising warnings in case of non-respect of these;

Coordinate the projects’ various stakeholders: DG TAXUD business and IT teams, subcontractors’ teams, COTS providers, Member States’ representatives, etc.;

Enforce the delivery of the project(s) according to the agreed schedule, with the expected quality and with the resources provided;

Contribute to technical design and/or validate technical design as proposed by the external contractor.

Understand the business and technological aspects of the project, including the risks and the success factors. Work with the help of business, process and data analysts, enterprise/solutions architects as needed.

Report on the project status (tasks progress, plan, actions, risks, issues, decisions, changes, etc.) within DG TAXUD and/or with Member States or other partners;

Pro-actively identify risks on project delivery and propose and implement mitigation measures.

Escalate issues, in particular the ones with potential impacts on time or resources;

Provide suggestions for service or methodology improvements;

B2 level of English minimum. Any knowledge of French is an asset.

EQF Level 6 in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.

Minimum 3 years’ experience in IT, including recent 2 years’ IT project management experience.

Experience of large scale digital distributed systems integration projects is an asset.

Experience in the areas of taxation and/or excise and/or customs and/or CBAM is an asset.

Experience with Project Management tools;

Technical knowledge of the European Commission standard IT products and technologies

Optional certifications: PM2 (Project Management, Agile, …) , PMI Project Management Professional (PMP), Prince2

English

Agile

PRINCE2

Our client within the European Institutions is currently looking for a Project Manager to work on the management of one or more digitalisation projects, including planning, scoping and control of delivery by external contractors.

Public

Project Manager

up to €355

Location:

Brussels, Belgium

Apply before:

30/06/2025

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