Professional Services Project Director

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The Role

Aspen Technology has an immediate need for a Professional Services Project Director in the Professional Services Project Management Office organization in the Middle East (MENA) region. Successful candidate will be responsible for the delivery of cutting-edge technology projects to market leading companies. This is an assignment within the organization with a great degree of influence and visibility with clients.

Your Impact

• Strategically oversees, monitors, and manages projects.
• Delivering multiple software implementation projects on budget and on schedule with high customer satisfaction.
• Execution of all project management phases from initiation, execution, monitoring and controlling to closeout.
• Functional supervision of contractors, consultants and engineers assigned to the projects.
• Compliance with all reporting, project administration, and documentation requirements.
• Communicate and develop relationships with clients.
• Ensures a high degree of customer satisfaction through world-class delivery practices.
• Work collaboratively with other teams: R&D, Support, Product Management, Sales and Customer Success organizations.
• Recommend changes to a project that is ongoing if it appears it is not proceeding on schedule or is producing unsatisfactory results..
  
  

What You'll Need

• Minimum of (14) years project management leadership experience with Information Technology initiatives.
• Experience in process industry (preferably oil&gas, petrochemicals or similar)
• Experience in managing multiple projects impacting different business functions and multiple locations.
• Experience with international customers mainly in the Middle East region (ideally also Eastern Europe and India).
• Excellent analysis skills and ability to translate business requirements into project deliverables and associated tasks.
• Excellent communications skills (written and oral), with an ability to listen and to articulate project status and issues. Communication experience should include presentations at all organizational levels.
• Experience in creating detailed project plans, crisp presentations and accurate financial reports.
• Ability to adopt and tune communication to accommodate different levels of stakeholders.
• Team building and management skills, to bring a diverse group together to deliver required business results.
• Leadership through influence, rather than exercising leadership via formal hierarchy.
• Technical understanding to enable effective delivery of technology projects including new systems implementations.
• Proficiency in key areas of project management including scope, time, cost, quality, risk, procurement management.
• Customer Focus – ensure customer satisfaction and delivery success and establish long-term relationships.
• Problem Solving - ability to identify key issues, develop and evaluate alternative solutions and make improvements.
• Must be able and willing to travel at least 25% of time, including international travel.
• Industry recognized Project Management certification desirable.
• Experience in both waterfall and agile project management desirable.