Project Manager

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Bento – Intellectually Curious is a Romanian technology company with over 21 years of experience in software development, IT services, and cloud infrastructure, driving digital transformation across industries.
We specialize in delivering innovative, secure, and scalable solutions that empower businesses in energy, utilities, telecom, and field service to operate smarter and faster.
At the core of our portfolio are our own products - Bento FSM and Bento MDM, powerful platforms designed to streamline field operations, secure mobile assets, and optimize enterprise workflows. Complementing our product suite, we offer advanced IT services focused on the design, implementation, and management of complex IT architectures, tailored to the needs of large enterprises.
With a growing base of multinational clients and a clear ambition for international expansion, we continue to combine deep technical expertise with a strong commitment to innovation, making Bento a trusted partner for organizations seeking efficiency, security, and sustainable digital growth.

Cerinte

What should you bring to our team?

Abilities (soft skills)

Responsibility:

· Keeps commitments and honors agreed deadlines.

· Proactively communicates challenges and asks for support when needed.

· Does not look for excuses for weak results; instead proposes concrete action plans for improvement.

· Openly identifies errors and suggests clear corrective solutions.

· Regularly monitors progress and provides transparent updates.

· Encourages team members to take ownership of their results.

· Analyzes the causes of success and failure to extract lessons learned.

Curiosity:

· Asks clarifying and exploratory questions without criticizing proposed ideas in the early stages of discussion.

· Shares new knowledge with colleagues and encourages active exchange of information and ideas.

· Seeks to understand the reasoning behind colleagues’ suggestions, even when different from their own opinions.

· Asks open and relevant questions to facilitate solution-finding.

· Receives feedback without defensiveness and makes visible adjustments to their way of working or proposed solutions.

· Encourages testing and validating proposed solutions before deciding on their viability.

· Requests feedback from colleagues.

· Actively explores new learning opportunities.


Self-leadership:

· Acknowledges mistakes without seeking external blame.

· Demonstrates discipline and perseverance in achieving objectives.

· Organizes and prioritizes tasks to meet deadlines.

· Recognizes and effectively manages personal emotions and reactions in critical or stressful situations.

· Takes initiative and actively seeks opportunities for self-improvement.

· Requests and integrates feedback from others for continuous development.

· Sets clear and realistic goals for their own work.



Clear Communication:

· Ensures the message is correctly understood by asking for feedback or confirmation from the interlocutor.

· Listens without interrupting and paraphrases or clarifies messages when needed.

· Expresses ideas clearly, structurally, and without ambiguity, adapting the message to the listener’s level of understanding.

· Avoids assumptions and verifies information before sharing it to prevent misinformation.

· Manages communication effectively in difficult situations, maintaining clarity and avoiding conflict escalation.

· Contributes to a work environment based on feedback and effective communication, enabling collaboration and informed decision-making.

· Uses visual tools (diagrams, charts, lists) when they improve message clarity.

· Uses precise language and avoids unnecessary jargon or excessive detail that could impair understanding.


Collaboration:

· Encourages an atmosphere of mutual support and openness in which all team members feel included.

· Listens attentively and respects colleagues’ perspectives, even when they differ from their own.

· Shares relevant and up-to-date information with colleagues, preventing workflow disruptions.

· Addresses disagreements constructively, maintaining respect and focusing on solutions rather than blame.

· Clarifies roles, responsibilities, and expectations to avoid confusion and bottlenecks.

· Actively contributes to the team’s shared goals and adjusts personal priorities based on collective needs.

· Adapts working style to facilitate collaboration with people from different backgrounds, roles, or teams.

· Proposes solutions that integrate others’ needs and constraints, not only their own objectives.

· Requests support or expertise when needed and offers help without waiting for formal requests.


Problem Solving and Decision Making:

· Seeks colleagues’ input and discusses potential impact with the team before making decisions that affect their work.

· Asks clarifying questions before starting to work on a problem to ensure proper understanding of the situation.

· Proposes practical solutions adapted to the available resources and the specific context (technical, operational, administrative).

· Consults relevant colleagues (stakeholders) when a problem affects multiple functions, to avoid isolated or conflicting solutions.

· Takes ownership of decisions without seeking external blame.

· Addresses issues before they escalate, demonstrating proactivity and a prevention-oriented mindset.

· Rapidly tests proposed solutions when appropriate and adjusts based on results or feedback.


Emotional Maturity:

· Avoids conflict escalation and maintains communication at a constructive, solution-oriented level.

· Recognizes others’ emotions and responds with empathy, respect, and genuine openness.

· Identifies personal emotional reactions and manages them consciously in difficult or tense contexts.

· Stays calm and functional in stressful situations, maintaining focus and decision-making capacity.

· Requests and offers feedback in a balanced manner, avoiding defensive or passive-aggressive responses.

· Reflects on how personal emotional behaviors may influence collaboration and acts responsibly as a result.

· Adapts tone, message, and behavior to the emotional state of the interlocutors or the team.


Tech skills:

· Minimum 5 years in managing Software projects.

· Proven record in delivering high quality solutions that meet the clients’ needs

· Experience in complex software and infrastructure projects across both the public and private sectors.

· Experience in working with Waterfall or Agile software development

· Project management–related certifications

· Clear understanding of Software Development Lifecycle

· Awareness of technology concepts like databases, systems integrations, programming languages, systems and software architecture

· Experience in estimating, planning, baselining and running projects to completion, on time and on budget.

· Strong communication skills in Romanian and English (written & spoken).

· Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and facilitate client meetings.

· Ability to define, structure, and monitor project timelines, milestones, and responsibilities to ensure successful delivery.

· Ability to assess and forecast the time, effort, and resources required to complete tasks or deliverables, supporting accurate planning, scheduling, and decision-making.

· Ability to monitor project progress, team workload, and key metrics, and to communicate status updates clearly and regularly to stakeholders, enabling informed decisions and timely interventions.

· Defining and solving problems

· Skilled in writing and validating project documentation (functional & non-functional specs).

· Comfortable with managing client expectations and relationships.

· Experience working in an entrepreneurial environment is a plus.

Responsabilitati

What you’ll do:

As a Project Manager, you will lead and coordinate project teams to deliver high-quality software solutions on time, ensure clear communication with stakeholders, optimize project workflows, manage risks, and align business objectives with technical execution. Manage and coordinate the allocated project team to deliver high-quality products within agreed timelines.

· Report and take responsibility for the output and deliverables of the project team.

· Define and agree on the project plan with the Account Manager, Team Delivery Manager, and Business Analyst.

· Collaborate with Sales, Account, Commercial and Dev Teams Managers throughout the client lifecycle to suggest innovative solutions.

· Manage client expectations and relationships, identifying opportunities for up-selling and cross-selling.

· Ensure constant communication with clients regarding changes, delays, opportunities, and priorities.

· Clarify, prioritize, and negotiate client requests and deliverables.

· Create, validate, and write functional and non-functional specifications (user stories) for development teams.

· Work closely with the Team Delivery Manager, Business Analyst, IT department, and QA Lead to ensure timely product delivery.

· Coordinate and facilitate project meetings to clarify user stories and define deliverables.

· Ensure adherence to company guidelines and best practices, including security and documentation standards.

· Influence project team members to take accountability for their assigned work.

· Ensure effective cross-team communication and coordination.

· Report on workload and project status in Board meetings.

· Measure and track project KPIs.

· Ensure that effort and work logs are correctly recorded by team members.

· Manage stakeholder expectations and facilitate alignment among all parties.

· Identify and communicate resource needs for the project.

Alte informatii

What you’ll get in return (besides $) 😊:

Work environment & benefits

· Medical subscription to Regina Maria network of clinics, free of charge. You can choose to pay for your family and relatives or friends under the same subscription.

· Free access to Hilio, a health and well-being services platform with more than 800 doctors and specialists licensed and verified in psychotherapy, telemedicine, parenting, nutrition, coaching and financial well-being, is available for you 24/7. You can talk with one of the specialists, benefiting from free monthly sessions paid for by Bento. Since psycho-emotional health means both, taking care of ourselves and assuring the wellbeing of our loved ones, we have decided to extend the free phone line for the family members of each employee.

· Annual teambuilding outside Bucharest, Christmas party.

Team

· You will have the chance to be surrounded by young and experienced colleagues and to work in a friendly environment where we consider that each mistake is a lesson learned and a step forward in your career.

· We are funny – there are no bad jokes, but we value respect. We like to party and spend time together.

· We are responsible and accountable for Bento’s success, this is why you will see us very often doing things that are not in our job description.

· We are human beings. We care first about the human being rather than the role one is responsible for. We are making efforts to connect with one another in a human way.

Learning & Development

· At Bento you own your professional and personal development.

· We will offer you all the necessary training, courses, and certifications together with our expertise suitable for your career growth, so that you can learn new things and keep up with technology.

· You will have access to Pluralsight so that you can improve your tech skills.

· Possibility of enrolling in a Learning & Development program created based on the individual needs of every employee in terms of personal and professional growth.

Culture & Context

· Bento is an entrepreneurial company, listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

· With around 105 team members and over 20 years of IT expertise, we generated €17 million in total revenue in 2024;

· We acknowledge our colleagues’ side projects, passions and values;

· We offer freedom and ask for responsibility and accountability.

· We create as few procedures as we can to provide space for creativity.

· You take part in managing and creating work context through feedback and communication.

Beneficii

• Abonament medical
• Training-uri
• Cursuri
• Certificari/Atestate
• Program de lucru flexibil
• Teambuilding-uri / excursii
• Petreceri/evenimente companie
• Laptop
• Telefon mobil