Assistant Project Manager In The Transport Sector
Paris Area, France
During this internship, I was at the heart of an international transport company, getting vision on the whole activity.I was in charge of the Innov & Go challenge, 2016 edition. This challenge is an initiative taken by the RATP Dev's direction board. Its goal is to promote innovation from subsidiaries of the RATP Dev Group, and also to enhance the replication process of those innovations.Along with the project manager, an operating expert, I was in charge of :•Tracking and animate this challenge troughout the 75 subsidiaries (Europe, America, Asia, Africa),•Creating and distributing all necessary documents, such as the director's and the entrant's guide, the executive summary and the application forms, •Creating and publicating all news to promote the challenge on the intranet (Teaming up with the communication dpt), •The collaborative platform created especially for this challenge, with all the 75 subsidiary directors and the 9 country directors. I had to animate this community, posting news on the tracking of the challenge, as well as the innovation topic in general.The second part of my work was to prepare the award ceremony. This task was realized along with my tutor, the direction committee and many country directors. I had to elaborate criteria for the prize winner’s' selection, forward those information to the subsidiary directors and answer all related questions.Technical skills acquired:•How to manage a project,•How to create and manage a routing file,•How to create and animate a collaborative platform,•How to create a writable form with Word,•How to write an experience feedback on a professional topic,•Technical knowledge on the train/tram/bus/coaches exploitation and maintenance.Human skills acquired:•How to motivate colleagues for a challenge,•How to motivate colleagues to integrate a collaborative platform,•How to behave and address country directors,•How to act when facing a colleague from a very different culture.