At Premium Sound Solutions (PSS), we develop and produce world-class innovative sound solutions for automotive and consumer applications. You may not have seen us; however, we are producing more than 90 million loudspeakers …. a year! Loads of cars and consumer products contain speakers from us. So maybe you find us in your car or at home, while listing to your favorite song.

 We are a sustainable company that strives for a good work-life balance, invests in training and values integrity, teamwork, sustainable innovation, and leadership by excellence. Premium Sound Solutions employs more than 3000 people in product development and state-of-the-art production facilities. You will find R&D departments in Belgium, China and offices and production facilities in Belgium (Dendermonde), Germany, Hungary, Malaysia, China, USA and Mexico. For our IT Department in Dendermonde, we are looking for an IT Project Manager.

What will you do for us?

• Lead the IT project and IT change process. Create, monitor and execute the project plan to ensure timely delivery of the agreed project objectives within agreed cost.
• Organize regular project team meetings to ensure that business, IT and external IT team members implement, test and validate business processes, impact and risk action plans, training plan, IT application and infrastructure.
• Facilitate the project intake, help organize and cluster the project portfolio to execute the projects with the highest return in the right order, considering available IT and business capabilities.
• Support, coach and evaluate project resources, both internal and external to enable successful project execution.
• Guide the project request through all phases, from business case through project delivery, enabling progress reporting to the IT steerco and the extended organization.
• Create unit, string and integration test plans to ensure a high-quality outcome.
• Identify critical project dependencies and business risks and implement mitigation plans. Report risks and mitigation actions on the IT steerco and to the appropriate stakeholders.
• Perform stakeholder analysis and involve the necessary change agents to minimize resistance to change following process and organizational changes.
• Budget, plan and follow up the expenditures and purchasing processes together with the IT Asset Coordinator to ensure timely delivery of the necessary resources.
• Continuously evaluate project outcome and KPI’s to improve the IT project or change process performance and ensure continuous improvements.

What will you bring to PSS?

• Master’s degree
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in IT project management or digital transformation. Proven experience in introducing new technologies in the business and organizational change.
• Adequate understanding of generic business processes and operations in a manufacturing context as well as IT technologies and applications are a must. Experience in the automotive industry is considered a plus.
• Knowledge of the SAP and Microsoft technology stack.
• Excellent project management skills on planning, presentation, reporting and leadership. You consider KPI’s as the indicator of your projects progress.
• Strong interpersonal skills to mobilize stakeholders at all levels of the organization on all sites globally. Willing and able to travel on a project base.
• Good communication skills. Flawless oral and written English is a must. Dutch, Spanish or Chinese is a plus.
• Pragmatic, proactive and solution driven team player in a global and multicultural organization.

Sounds Great?

This is an exciting opportunity for a bright, enthusiastic, and ambitious individual. You will have a challenging role in a true multicultural and innovative environment. We can offer the possibility to work 50% at home. By offering you more flexibility, our aim is to enable everyone to work in a way that best facilitates productivity, work/life balance and collaboration.

Together with all your PSS colleagues, you will shape the future of sound.

We are looking forward to meeting you…