Airswift has been tasked by one of our key clients to seek a Project Coordinator to join them in Schiedam, NL on a 1-year renewable contract.
Main accountabilities and responsibilities:
- Coordinate all the improvement initiatives and report on the status to Tax and Finance directors; manage multiple priorities with accuracy and on time;
- Proactively provide project manager and steering committees with status updates including timely feedback regarding potential issues/ solutions while maintaining a high level of confidentiality and customer focus
- Proactively highlight concerns as they arise, and (re)prioritize assigned activities to meet key milestones and escalate unresolved issues to the appropriate stakeholder to minimize delays in deliverables
- Coordinate with external consultants: tax advisors, consulting companies, and internal stakeholders: IT, finance, change management, procurement etc.
- Perform internal administrative processes like arranging PO, budget, contracts
- Prioritize and put a right pressure on the different stakeholders
- Maintain the project planning up to date
- Negotiate and communicate about (timing of) deliveries
- Maintain the cost overview and highlight to project manager/sponsor in case of deviations with budget
- Ensure activities are completed in line with expectations of steering committee
- Ensure confidentiality in all tax matters
- Proactive and open communication
- Excellent organizational and planning abilities
- Ability to prepare a well-structured documents to clearly convey required information
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships with others, both within and outside the team
- Have a pro-active approach in involving colleagues to get feedback and updates in order to accurately inform about the progress made and status
- Experience in small scale project management
- Comfortable with working with MS tools: excel, power point, SharePoint
- Good communication skills in English (both written and verbal)