Senior IT Project Manager/Scrum Master

This is Lyondellbasell

LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) is one of the largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies in the world. Driven by its employees around the globe, LyondellBasell produces materials and products that are key to advancing solutions to modern challenges like enhancing food safety through lightweight and flexible packaging, protecting the purity of water supplies through stronger and more versatile pipes, improving the safety, comfort and fuel efficiency of many of the cars and trucks on the road, and ensuring the safe and effective functionality in electronics and appliances. LyondellBasell sells products into more than 100 countries and is the world's largest producer of polypropylene compounds and the largest licensor of polyolefin technologies. In 2022, LyondellBasell was named to Fortune Magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies" for the fifth consecutive year.

This is what you do

Reporting to the IT Business Process Excellence team, this position provides leadership for planning and delivery of IT projects and other product backlog items. He/she is responsible for implementation of business and IT solutions, new applications, and upgrades. The position ensures successful delivery, meeting the targets related to scope, time, cost and value. Following DevOps principles, he/she ensures a seamless transition of project outputs to product teams. Overall, this position works closely with business and technology leadership, serving as a leader and trusted advisor for quality delivery of IT solutions.    

This is a position of influence, negotiation and expectation management as well as hands-on delivery management:

•    Successful delivery of projects and product backlog items
•    Collaborates with product team leaders and business process owners for value creation through technology investments
•    Is an active practitioner and coach of LYB Advancing90 delivery methodology, which is based on agile and lean principles
•    Coaches and mentors project and product teams, involving both IT and business participants
•    Prepares project plan, resource and cost estimates  
•    Liaises with resource managers to secure resources required for successful delivery
•    Manages budget, scope and schedule
•    Facilitates organizational change management; manages risk and issue resolution
•    Manages stakeholders in business and IT, including senior leaders
•    Reports into project steering committee or equivalent body; ensures regular status reporting 
•    Ensures that the project delivers benefits outlined in the business case and meets reasonable expectations of end users
•    Contributes to continuous improvement of LYB project delivery by applying lessons learned and external leading practices

This is what you bring

This position would benefit a lot with someone who posses the following:

•    Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, information systems, business administration or related field or equivalent experience.  
•    A minimum of 10 years of IT and business/industry related experience with large, global organizations.  
•    A minimum of 8 years in a project management role, managing medium to large global teams.
•    Five plus years of leadership responsibility in managing medium to large projects and teams and influencing senior management and stakeholders
•    Experience in technology projects in one or more of the following business domains: supply chain, finance, human resources (preferred)
•    Experience in implementing projects on SAP platform, and preferably also in managing operations on SAP platform
•    Experience in implementing SaaS solutions (preferred)
•    Experience in DevOps and agile 
•    Excellent program and project management skills with demonstrated track record
•    Demonstrated people leadership and team-building skills; ability to work in matrix organization
•    Strong presentation and communication skills; negotiation skills to influence stakeholders
•    Experience in managing multi-cultural teams and work across multiple onsite and offshore locations  
•    Experience in financial planning and analysis, and cost benefit analysis, in project economic metrics like NPV, IRR, payback

Preferred Qualifications
•    MBA or MS a plus
•    Current PMI PMP certification and Certified Scrum Master a plus

Competencies

This is what we offer

We offer an environment where we encourage personal and professional growth and where you will be rewarded for your performance and results. You will have the possibility to work with specialist on all fields to develop innovative solutions and to extend your national and international network. In addition, we offer you a competitive salary package. The Company's Global Remote Work Policy allows eligible employees the option to work up to two days a week from home. LyondellBasell is committed to advancing diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) to ensure a positive experience for all employees.

Interested

Please feel free to contact Dennie Verberne at dennie.verberne @ lyondellbasell.com for more details. Would you like to apply? Just send us your motivation and resume via the application button. Only applications through this application button will be taken into consideration.

The recruitment process exists of an initial phone screening and business interviews before proceeding to a possible job offer a background check will be part of the process.

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