Senior Project Manager

Please note that due to the holiday period, the response time for applications may be slightly longer than usual. We appreciate your patience and will get back to you as soon as possible.   Who are we CLEVR Delivers digital transformation at scale by implementing Siemens and Mendix solutions to serve industries like manufacturing, retail, energy, and more. We leverage PLM, MOM/MES, and low-code technologies for manufacturing optimization and business process automation. About the Job: In this role, you will leverage your leadership skills and deep industry knowledge to guide complex projects that help our clients unlock the full potential of Siemens Teamcenter and shape the future of digital manufacturing. You will contribute to supporting our projects and managing each customer’s unique needs, while staying up-to-date with the latest developments in PLM. To learn more about what projects we work with: https://www.clevr.com/customer-stories You will report directly to the Head of Business Consulting and collaborate closely with a team of skilled project managers and consultants to deliver strategic, high-impact solutions. Your role will include: As a Senior Project Manager at CLEVR, your role will be all about navigating projects for various clients. Whether it's a short project or a multi-year endeavor in PLM, you'll be managing consultants and collaborating with stakeholders. Our project teams vary in size, from solo acts to deploying a group of many engineers, ensuring diversity in every project. * Act as the technical and strategic advisor for clients, ensuring PLM solutions align with business objectives and deliver measurable value. * Leading and coordinating engineering activities, ensuring timely and high-quality technical solutions within budget. * Acting as the primary technical point of contact for clients, managing all technical aspects of project delivery. * Collaborate with project management to allocate resources effectively and ensure optimal project execution. * Collaborate with PLM engineers and technical teams to design, configure, and integrate Teamcenter into complex manufacturing environments. * Manage project timelines, budgets, and resources, ensuring successfull delivery of high-quality solutions. * Stay ahead of PLM trends and Siemens technology advancements, applying best practices to client projects. What you bring to the table: * Proven track record of leading large-scale PLM projects within the manufacturing industry. * Documented experience as a senior project manager or project lead. * Strong understanding of data migration strategies, system architecture, and customization within Teamcenter or other PLM systems. * Certifications such as Prince2, PMP, IPMA, or equivalent are an advantage * Structured, analytical, and proactive * Excellent communication skills in Norwegian and English, both written and verbal * Ability to mentor and guide PLM engineers and consultants, fostering best practices and technical excellence. * Master’s degree in Engineering, IT, or a related field. This employment may require security clearance by the Norwegian National Security Authority. For more information visit www.nsm.no. What we offer you * Competitive salary  * 30 vacation days. * Excellent insurance plans that cover, among other things, treatments with physiotherapists, chiropractors, and other health services. * A flexible workday with the option to work from home. * Learning and development: value creation days, books, and we back your growth with access to Udemy.  * Exciting projects and clients where you’ll get plenty of responsibility! * Access to OpenUp to support your wellbeing at work.   * Annual CLEVRistic party.  * Social events: CLEVR Social Club.  * And best of all: an amazing team of colleagues.   CLEVR delivers digital transformation at scale by implementing Siemens and Mendix solutions to serve industries like manufacturing, retail, energy, and more. We leverage PLM, MOM/MES, and low-code technologies for manufacturing optimization and business process automation while ensuring seamless integration with other core systems like SAP, IBM, and Salesforce. CLEVR brings together technology and industry expertise to provide strategic solutions that streamline operations, drive efficiency, and enable digitalization to fit market demands. With main hubs in the Netherlands, Norway, Germany, and Finland CLEVR’s growing team of 250+ people creates value for over 400 customers, including Continental, ING, Siemens, Rituals, and Eneco. CLEVR is a platinum-level Siemens solutions partner and a leading Mendix partner. Do you have a question? Send us an email - jobs@clevr.com. *Besides the benefits that apply to all our CLEVR people, each country and role has its unique benefits. Make sure you ask your Talent Acquisition Partner about those!   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Be CLEVR. Join CLEVR.

Who is PawaPay PawaPay is a pan-African fintech enabling local payment channels used by the mass market to both local and international merchants. We operate in a highly regulated, partner-driven environment and are in scale-up mode, with ambitious growth plans across multiple African markets. Our vision is to simplify business for companies and consumers in Africa and we do that by ensuring that payments simply work, at scale, despite fragmentation and complexity that exists on the Continent. Through our payments API we already facilitate over 4 million transactions a day across 20 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.  We are the largest PSP on the Continent for the processing of mobile money payments, and have positioned ourselves well to lead the payment space as it grows over the next decade. At PawaPay, there is an entrepreneurial spirit coupled with a modern and professional working culture. The fast-paced, ever-changing environment will suit someone who can adapt and think on their feet. In return, you will have the opportunity to work alongside a group of dedicated and smart individuals working towards the same mission. We work as a remote team and have team members in Europe, Africa and Asia. The role We are introducing a single, disciplined way of running cross-functional projects: clear ownership, one source of truth, and reliable visibility. This is the role that makes it work. You will own the delivery system across the business — intake, coordination, visibility, prioritisation support and escalation — while the teams who do the work retain ownership of their own projects. This is deliberately a standalone senior role reporting to the COO. It is not the head of a Project Management Office and it is not the first hire of a growing PMO. There is no team to build and no governance bureaucracy to stand up. We are looking for a strong operator who runs a system and drives discipline, not an empire-builder. The core delivery workspace is in the process of being launched in ClickUp and an MVP will be in initial use when you join; your job is to run it, refine it, and make it indispensable — not to build it from a blank page. What you are accountable for; You are accountable for the integrity of the delivery system and for ensuring that no delivery risk reaches leadership without warning. In practice, the principle is simple: no surprises, not no slips. Projects will slip — often for external reasons we do not control. If a project slips and leadership saw it coming and made a conscious call, you have done your job. If a project slips and it blindsides us, that is a failure of the role, whatever the underlying cause. You surface risk early and clearly; the authority to act on it sits with line managers and the executive. You are not accountable for the delivery outcome of any individual project. Accountability for delivery is held at task level by the person who owns each task, and overall project ownership stays with the intake owner (Sales Executive, Account Manager or Functional Lead). You are the framework and the safety net, not a substitute driver. What you own day to day * Intake. The integrity of the intake process — ensuring every project enters with a clear, complete brief and a named owner before work begins, and that the AI-assisted intake tooling is used and kept useful. * Single source of truth. Keeping a single, trusted, centralised view of every project in ClickUp, so that business owners and leadership never need to request an ad hoc status update and no team needs its own shadow tracker. * Prioritisation support. Supporting leadership dialogue on prioritisation and bottleneck management — preparing the portfolio view, helping facilitate the session, and ensuring it produces a force-ranked list with an explicit de-prioritised column that is logged and communicated.  * Escalation. Spotting blockers and stalling tasks early, flagging them to the responsible line manager within the agreed window, and escalating to the COO where they are not resolved. * Cross functional bridge. Maintaining a clean interface with different departments within the organisation, ensuring fast alignment, clarity on project deliverables and timelines, and efficient delivery across the organisation at large. Build fantastic relationships with all collaborators in the organisation, encouraging their collaboration and buy in on project management activities.  * Active coordination. Actively coordinating the highest-priority projects hands-on, while ensuring the rest run correctly through the framework via their owners. * Reporting and AI. Stewarding the AI-assisted intake and reporting capability, and turning the maintained ClickUp data into the business reports and dashboards as necessitated by business owners. Adopting an AI first mindset as we optimise and improve the way in which we run cross functional projects.  * Improvement. Refining the delivery framework and ClickUp workspace as real use exposes what needs to change — continuous, pragmatic improvement, never process for its own sake. What you do not own To keep the role sharp, it is as important to be clear on what sits outside it: * Delivery outcomes of individual projects — these sit with task owners and intake owners. * Line management of delivery teams — tool discipline and performance are enforced by each person’s own line manager, not by you. * Product and Engineering roadmaps, workflows or daily task management. * Building a PMO, hiring a team, or introducing governance gates. Possible growth on our project management team is a future decision for the COO, contingent on evidence — not an expectation of this role. How the role is measured You will be measured on the health of the delivery system and on early warning, not on outcomes you do not control. The primary measures are: * Early risk surfacing. Surprise rate — missed commitments that reach leadership with no prior formal flag (target: zero). * Trusted visibility. Shadow trackers retired and ad hoc status requests to teams eliminated. * Escalation working. Blocker age and share of escalations actioned within the agreed window. * Prioritisation calls are clear. We have a clear view on priority decisions made and a known understanding of what we are de-prioritising when prioritising new initiatives.  * Intake quality. Projects entering with a complete brief and named owner; low rate of major scope rework after kickoff. These measures tighten over the first months as flow builds and a baseline is established. Internal cycle time — time spent in the stages PawaPay controls, measured separately from external wait — is the initiative’s longer-term north star that this role stewards, reviewed at six months. Alongside the metrics, success means the teams who do the work experience you as someone who makes their projects easier, not as overhead who chases them. What we are looking for * Experience. Significant experience delivering and coordinating complex, cross-functional projects — ideally in fintech, payments, or another regulated, partner-dependent environment. * Operator, not administrator. A track record of bringing order to ambiguity: standing up ways of working, driving adoption, and holding discipline without formal authority over the people involved. * Tooling and AI. Fluency with ClickUp (or a comparable platform) and Slack, plus confidence with Google Workspace. AI-native in how you work — you use tools like Claude to reduce manual effort, not to replace judgement. * Domain. Experience delivering merchant integrations, client onboarding or API implementation projects is highly desirable; experience across multiple African markets is a plus. * Method. Relevant certification (PMP, PRINCE2, AgilePM, Scrum) is welcome but secondary to demonstrated ability to make delivery work in a fast-moving, dependency-heavy business. Key competencies * Exceptional stakeholder management and influence without authority.  * Strong cross-functional coordination.  * Sharp risk anticipation and problem-solving.  * Clear, credible communication with everyone from specialists to the executive team.  * Comfort operating with high autonomy in a fast-paced, ambiguous, high-growth environment.  * A genuine bias toward ownership and toward keeping processes proportionate. Why PawaPay? * Help improve financial access in Africa * Being part of an amazing team that shapes company’s culture as a great place to be * An ambitious, talented, and diverse team who always has your back * We grow fast, and you will grow fast with us * Competitive remuneration * 35 days of paid leave per year (inclusive of public holidays) and more.