OTIV is hiring a Strategic Project Manager to join our Strategy team. In this role, you will drive multi-year projects to co-develop, test, and implement remote-control and autonomous train solutions. You will bring structure and focus to complex, multi-stakeholder environments, ensuring optimal resource use and project success.
What You'll Do
- Lead and manage train remote-control and automation projects from requirements definition through project delivery, defining timelines, scope, budget, and implementation, including risk mitigation.
- Coordinate interdisciplinary teams to develop, test and implement cutting-edge technologies.
- Monitor project budgets, ensuring expenditures remain aligned with financial plans and approvals.
- Monitor project progress and address potential risks to ensure timely completion.
- Identify potential commercial opportunities during the completion of the project.
- Ensure that short-term technical shortcuts are tracked, managed, and eventually refactored into robust features.
- Analyze project requirements to distinguish between distinct market needs (core product) and unique client requests (custom configurations).
- Identify high-value project deliverables - such as specific sensor integrations or software features - that have broader market appeal and lead their transition into the official product roadmap.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience in project management, business, or corporate development in a deep-tech startup, tier-one strategy consultancy, or corporate strategy department.
- Degree in Business Administration, (industrial) engineering, or a similar field.
- Knowledge of and experience in managing complex projects with large accounts.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
- Hands-on, self-driven mentality with the ability to define and build greenfield projects from the ground up.
- Enthusiasm for advanced technology.
- Experience of working in a fast-paced start-up environment.
- Fluent in English.
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of and experience in the fields of logistics, railway, self-driving technology, or software/platform-as-a-service businesses.
- French or Dutch language skills.
Team & Environment
You will be a key member of OTIV's Strategy team, working in a collaborative, transparent, and fun-loving office culture.
Benefits & Compensation
- Full time offer with competitive salary package.
- International environment in a disruptive scale-up with opportunities to grow.
- Flexible working hours system.
- Office-first-culture, with an office in beautiful Ghent (Belgium).
- Collaborative, transparent, and fun-loving office culture.
- Team events and quarterly offsite.
- 32 days of vacation.
Work Mode
This is an onsite position based in our office in Ghent, Belgium.
OTIV is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals.
