Project Manager for European Institutions

Job Description

Talan is an international consulting group in innovation and transformation through technology. For 20 years, Talan has been advising companies and administrations. The group supports them and implements their transformation and innovation projects internationally. 

Present on five continents, the group plans to achieve a turnover of 600 million euros in 2023 for more than 6,000 consultants and aims to exceed the one billion € turnover mark by 2025. The group puts innovation at the heart of its development and intervenes in areas related to the technological changes of large groups, such as Artificial Intelligence, Data Intelligence, Web3, Metaverse, Blockchain or IoT. 

By placing the “humanistic practice of technology” at the center of its strategy, the Talan Group is convinced that it is by being at the service of humans that technology multiplies its potential for society. 

Are you looking to join a company at the forefront of innovation and transformation? Look no further than Talan! 

We are seeking a talented Project Manager for EU Institutions to join our team and work on IT projects.  

Role and responsibilities 

• Project management – carry out project management related tasks such as project planning, risk management, issue management, coordination, manage deliverables and report to hierarchy on the progress made.  
• Stakeholder management – identify and manage different stakeholders either internal or external to Commission when managing the different initiatives carried out by the OSPO  
• Presentation and reporting – capacity to produce presentations, reports and speak in public if needed  
• Service management – implement/define services around some of the initiatives currently being run by 2 the OSPO (code.europa.eu, Open Source Labs, etc.) with the objective of including them in the DIGIT Service Catalogue, and potentially taking ownership of some of them.  
• Process improvement - identify, propose and implement improvement plans for the OSPO in terms of business processes and support  
• KPIs definition – assist in defining and implementing indicators to measure the progress done by the OSPO across the different areas the team is responsible for  
• Requirements definition - capability to formulate in a clear and comprehensive manner functional and non-functional requirements. Occasionally, the Expert Product Owner might also be involved in the following tasks:  
• Community management – handle and manage requests from the different communities  
• Support – provide business/technical support on open-source related matters when appropriate (e.g. business customers, collaboration with other teams, etc), for example on code.europa.eu and/or open source labs  
• Advise - Advising internal projects on the aspects of open source, including helping them on becoming open source. 

• Experience managing large project/services, coupled with experience with large stakeholders’ community groups at EU scale  
• Experience with open source is considered a must 
• Demonstrated experience with project management tool: JIRA and Ms Project  
• Demonstrated experience in project managing project core teams of at least 10 FTEs 
• Certified in Project Management Methodologies: PM2 or PMP or Prince2 or similar  
• Certified in Agile methodology: Agile@EC or Scrum or Kanban or similar