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.

Aspen Technology has an immediate need for a Professional Services Project Director in the Professional Services Project Management Office organization. The 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 phases of project management from the initial bid, project resourcing, project initiation, project execution and 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 internal teams: R&D, Customer 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

• The successful candidate will have a minimum of ten (10) years’ experience with Information Technology initiatives, including formal project leadership experience.
• Experience in managing large scale projects impacting multiple business functions at multiple locations, including international.
• Strong analysis skills and ability to translate business requirements into a set of project deliverables and associated tasks.
• Strong 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.
• 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 and upgrades to existing systems.
• Good working understanding of the project management lifecycle and the key knowledge areas of project management: integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communications, risk, procurement, stakeholder.
• Customer Focus - proven track record of customer satisfaction and delivery success and ability to establish and maintain appropriate relationships with business and IT stakeholders.
• Consulting/Problem Solving - ability to work in an advisory capacity to identify key problems, develop and evaluate alternative solutions and make recommendations.
• Industry recognized Project Management certification desirable.
• Must be able and willing to travel at least 25% of time, including some international travel.
• Additional requirements: Familiarity with upstream/offshore execution.
• Subcontractor management and coordination.
• Technical background in APC.
• Overseeing complex work streams and success criteria.
• Nice to have: French speaking.

About Us

AspenTech is a global software leader helping industries meet the increasing demand for resources from a rapidly growing population in a profitable and sustainable manner. Our Digital Grid Management software suite, including AspenTech OSI products, helps power and utilities companies achieve superior real-time control, optimization and management for exceptional performance of complex energy networks. If you're looking to make a difference every day and push the limits of performance, AspenTech is doing things no one else thought was possible. As a leading industrial software partner, we help companies all over the world run safer, greener, longer and faster. With over 3700 employees and more than 60 global locations, AspenTech is meeting today's sustainability and business challenges head-on with unmatched expertise, cutting-edge AI-powered technology and a passion to innovate.

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