IT Senior Project Support Officer Job in Veldhoven, Netherlands

ASML is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of chip-making equipment.

Our vision is to enable affordable microelectronics that improve the quality of life. To achieve this, our mission is to invent, develop, manufacture and service advanced technology for high-tech lithography, metrology and software solutions for the semiconductor industry.

ASML's guiding principle is continuing Moore's Law towards ever smaller, cheaper, more powerful and energy-efficient semiconductors. This results in increasingly powerful and capable electronics that enable the world to progress within a multitude of fields, including healthcare, technology, communications, energy, mobility, and entertainment.

Working at ASML
We provide the world’s top chipmakers everything they need to create better performing, cheaper semiconductor chips. Simply put: we are an industry leader supporting industry leaders.

As such, you’ll be encouraged to bring your best ideas and act on them. You’ll have the freedom, trust, and support in your field to experiment and solve complex challenges. Things are rarely dull when you’re constantly breaking new ground.

But despite our fast-paced environment at the forefront of tech, we take your work-life balance and wellbeing seriously. A business is only as good as its employees.

So join us, and you’ll be a part of a global collaboration. One that promotes creativity, the inclusion of highly diverse teams, and an exciting and dynamic work environment. Join us, and you’ll be a part of progress.

IT Senior Project Support Officer Job Description

Introduction
Are you challenged by supporting project, program and portfolio management? By optimizing project and portfolio management methodologies, processes and tooling? Are you an all-round project management officer and can you advise, challenge and facilitate project managers on content, process and project quality in the different phases of their projects? Can you convince your stakeholders and facilitate decision making? Do you like to share your knowledge by training/coaching project leads? Do you bring working experience in an Agile work environment? If so, then apply for the Project Management Officer role within our IT department!

Job Description
The IT Project Management Office (PMO) enables IT to deliver successful projects.
As a Project Management Officer (PMO) you are supporting a dedicated part of the IT project & program portfolio. You work closely with project managers on topics like project progress reporting, planning and quality assurance. You challenge your project managers on the effective and consistent use of the ASML IT project management process and methodology, and deliverables on timeliness, quality, accuracy and integrity. By providing clear analysis and insight on project progress (triple constraint), portfolio health and issues and risks, you support project managers and senior management in effective decision making.

You pro-actively contribute to the realization of the PMO improvement roadmap. You help strengthening IT's project management capabilities and actively share knowledge within IT's project management community and the IT PMO team. You lead PMO initiatives to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of projects. You drive the roll-out and embedding of project/program/portfolio standards and processes related to a.o. project planning,  effective decision making, reporting, change control, risk management and quality.

IT Senior Project Support Officer Job Requirements

Education
Relevant Bachelor or Master degree. Ideally you have it completed with a post graduate degree in Project Management.

Experience

• Extensive (3-5 years) working experience in project/portfolio management in a large, international organization, working as project management officer, or a similar position 
• Sound knowledge of project & portfolio management methodologies like PMBOK/Prince2 and MoP
• Thorough knowledge of Agile/Scrum, preferably with working experience in Agile/Scrum projects
• Experience in facilitation of workshops and knowledge exchange/training/presenting
• Experience with implementation of change and improvement projects, or ability to do so
• Experience with project financials
• Working knowledge of MS Office products: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Project and SharePoint Online
• Preferably, you have working experience with Microsoft Project Online and Spotfire
• Nice to have: working knowledge of SAP

• Proven stakeholder management capabilities; skills to support, advise and challenge project managers and middle and senior management to effect sustainable change by influencing without power
• Communicate clearly, concisely and directly to team lead, peers and customers, listen actively, show empathy to others, strive to achieve a shared understanding of your own tasks, issues and goals and speak up.
• Excellent presentation skills and a convincing personality
• Decisiveness, taking initiative, setting clear priorities 
• Result driven and flexible when needed (customer focused)
• People oriented (strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills), team player with the ability to work independently
• Solution minded, precise and practical
• Commitment: take ownership, focus on quality and improvements, and stick to agreements made
• Understand and consistently question the status quo and analyze existing processes and data within your own area of responsibility, based on knowledge and experience
• Demonstrate a learning mindset: actively seek feedback; learn and develop based on experience and feedback
• No-nonsense and hands-on mentality; 
• Fluent in English and preferably in Dutch

IT Senior Project Support Officer Application Information

Other information
To attract and retain the best people, we have a competitive employment conditions package, including:

• Fixed 13th month;
• Attractive profit scheme; 5 year average (2017): 16.4%
• 27 holidays and 13 additional free days.

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