Design Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Opportunities budget definition with Studio Manager and follow the progress of the expenses and billings.
• Meeting organization for opportunity design milestones
• Participation in meetings with Customers (external and internal) and follow up of opportunities. (budget, process, planning, action plan…)
• MoM and action plan of each meeting; watch the systematic writing of a report with the associated design actions.
• Conducting the team debriefing and / or communicate the information (Minutes Of Meetings, Requests For Quotation, briefs...) of the opportunities towards A&CD team.
• Responsible for " Project design management" part (objective of the meeting, the schedules, milestones, brief, budget, action plan, REX….) for each meeting (in-house, with design partners and in front of Customer).
• Ensuring that elements presented to the Customer are validated by the Project manager Alstom and/or the person in charge of the opportunity.
• Interface of the opportunity for A&CD in connection with Studio Manager.
• Workload to be updated according to the estimated loads and the needs to come.
• A&CD meetings participation and tool completion (Project review, workload, REX …)
• Use and implementation of methods, tools, way of working, processes available within A&CD
• Participate to continuous improvement of “A&CD design project manager” métier
• Sharing awareness in project management tools and actions.
• Manage the stamping and IP Map process.
• Preparation and execution of Design Thinking workshops*:
• Phase 1: exploration - living experimentation from the point of view of the user, identification and synthesis of the problems, the context, and the actors.
• Phase 2: definition, identification of areas for reflection and innovation levers
• Phase 3: multi-skill creative workshop, implementation of creative/brainstorming tools, experimentation
• Design, Execution and Follow-up of internal or external presentations of our Idea Books/ R&D & Innovation booklet / Methods/ Processes: value, homogenize and make comprehensible the Creation of the Innovation and R&D phase. *
• * Specific responsibilities for project managers involved in innovation opportunities

Deliverables

• Microsoft office documents: Design Brief, PMP, DMP, Budget sheet, MoM, reports, Action plan, Risks sheet, Opportunity Dashboard, bi-weekly dashboard, Acceptance report, Milestone documents, PPT presentations …
• Microsoft office template creation or update
• In design documents: DMP
• meetings organization, reporting
• Workload tool completion
• Data compilation
• Rules, process and guidance creation and application

Bilingual French and English mandatory

Spanish speaking can be a plus

Minimum 3 days a week at the office

Need to be ok for occasional traveling (Canada and United States mainly)