[4814B] Principal Project Manager

Start date: November 2025
Clearance: NATO Secret
Location: The Hague, Netherlands
(On-Site minimum 3 days a week)

Requirements:
• A Master's degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline with 5 years post related experience. Or a Bachelor's degree with 8 years post related experience.
• A recognised project management qualification, such as Prince2 Practitioner, Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), Project Management techniques based upon PMI Knowledge area or Agile. The lack of formal project qualification may be compensated by the demonstration of expertise in the domain.
• Recent experience of Project Management with major communication and/or command and control/management information system at the NCIA or NATO entity.
• Experience in applying multi-discipline engineering and management techniques in the acquisition of complex communication and information systems.
• Proactive attitude in seeking and maintaining trust from stakeholders.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with strong briefing and presentation skills.
• Demonstrable skills with accountability for both successes and failures with project deliverables, customer satisfaction, resource management, procurements and financial management.

Desirable Experience and Education:
• Extensive experience with project planning toolsets, preferably Service Now.
• A recognised Service Management qualification (such as ITIL Foundation, ITIL specialist courses).
• Experience in cloud infrastructure deployment, user and application migration projects (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and transition of projects to services and operations.
• Experience and certification in Agile Project Management (Agile PM, Scrum).
• Experience of leading International Competitive Bidding campaigns.
• Experience of leading large, medium and small IT implementation projects.
• Experience of creating Price Proposals and Invitation for Bids competition packages to industry
• Experience of leading Project Boards and Senior/Executive Management escalation Project Boards
• Experience of proficiently and professionally managing internal and partners (such as the NATO Enterprise).
• Experience in supplier management, negotiations, conflict resolution and contract management
• Experience in managing external contracts and contractors
• Experience in procurement, logistics, testing, change management and asset management.
• Experience of mentoring and supporting more junior PMs
• Experience in creating and leading high performance delivery teams
• Experience in communications in front of higher management and large groups (briefings, written and oral presentations).