Requirement: Senior Project Manager
Location: Brussels, BELGIUM
Full Time On-Site: No
Time On-Site: 50%
Not to Exceed Rate: 108 EUR
Total Scope of the request (hours): 418
Required Start Date: 1 September 2026
End Contract Date: 31 December 2026
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Please do NOT apply for any NATO contract positions unless you meet ALL the following criteria:
- Current National or NATO SECRET clearance
- Nationality of one of the NATO member countries
- Current work visa for the specific location if applying for an in-country position
Duties & Role:
Job role description: The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for leading and coordinating NATO Power BI project activities and related business intelligence delivery work. The incumbent will work under the direction of the Line Manager / Programme Manager and will coordinate with internal Agency teams, NATO customers, business stakeholders, data owners, technical teams and suppliers to ensure effective delivery of agreed outcomes.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead and coordinate assigned NATO Power BI projects, work packages and delivery activities.
- Develop, maintain and control project plans, schedules, milestones, deliverables and dependencies.
- Coordinate requirements, priorities and delivery activities with NATO stakeholders and user communities.
- Monitor project performance against agreed scope, schedule, cost, quality and risk baselines.
- Maintain risk, issue, action, assumption, dependency and decision logs.
- Prepare project status reports, dashboards, senior briefings, governance submissions and decision papers.
- Support financial planning, budget monitoring, forecasting and resource planning activities.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams including business users, data owners, Power BI developers, architects, service management and supplier resources.
- Support prioritisation, planning and delivery of Power BI dashboards, reports, datasets and related BI capabilities.
- Identify delivery risks, issues and dependencies, propose mitigation actions and escalate where appropriate.
- Chair or support project meetings, working groups and stakeholder engagement sessions.
- Track actions and decisions and ensure timely follow-up by responsible parties.
- Support change control, acceptance planning, transition to operations and project closure activities.
- Ensure project documentation is accurate, current and maintained in accordance with applicable Agency practices.
- Ensure activities are aligned with applicable NATO and NCI Agency governance, security and management requirements.
- Perform other project-related duties as may be required.
Specific Working Conditions: The main work location is Brussels, Belgium. The resource may work remotely where authorised by the Line Manager. Occasional travel to NATO or NCI Agency locations may be required to support stakeholder engagements, project meetings and delivery activities. The resource shall be available during normal business hours, with flexibility required to support urgent deadlines, governance meetings and multinational stakeholder coordination.
Requirements
Skills, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- Recent experience (at least 7 years) in Project management of Business Application and BI acquisition and / or development projects for a large organization.
- Significant experience in senior project management roles, preferably in NATO, defense, governmental, international organization or complex ICT/business applications environments.
- Demonstrated experience managing projects through the full project lifecycle, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, transition and closure.
- Experience leading business intelligence, analytics, reporting, data or Power BI related projects.
- Strong knowledge of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, issue, dependency, resource, stakeholder and change management.
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams, including business users, data owners, technical teams, developers, architects, service management, finance, acquisition and suppliers.
- Experience preparing project plans, schedules, milestone plans, risk and issue registers, action logs, decision logs, progress reports, governance papers and senior-level briefings.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including engagement with senior stakeholders, customers, technical teams and multinational user communities.
- Ability to work independently, take initiative, structure complex activities and drive delivery against agreed deadlines.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Project management certification such as PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMP, MSP, Agile, Scrum, SAFe or equivalent.
- Ability to work effectively in a team-oriented, collaborative and multinational environment.
