There is an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join Change Office. The Change Office partners across the organization to define the strategic transformation vision and roadmap, drive implementation of initiatives (including engagement & partnership with key stakeholders) and consistently delivers high-quality execution of change.

Collaborating globally across functions (including Core Portfolio Management, Data & Analytics, Investment Teams, Investor Relations, Legal, Finance & Technology), effectively communicating and engaging with third parties will be a key component of this role.

This Project Manager will work closely with programme managers to align with the technical and functional implementation, to leverage lessons learned, manage interdependencies and ensure thoughtful coordination across the roadmap.

Key Responsibilities

- Leading the organisational change to ensure smooth adoption across the business, whilst minimizing disruption to achieve the project/programmes intend benefits.

- Effectively manage the deployment of new systems/applications/tools/products/processes by designing and building an effective communication and training strategy to keep staff informed and upskilling all impacted employees on the new system and processes.

- Leading transition activities, supporting employees through the change and ensuring adoption, by engaging with leaders and employees to ensure buy-in, manage expectations and minimise resistance.

- Develop and maintain comprehensive project and change management plans, associated artefacts & measurements, in order to effectively deliver to plan

- Lead respective project governance forums (e.g. working groups, workshops, planning sessions) to facilitate effective decisioning, escalation and engagement of key stakeholders

- Diligently manage project budgets

Knowledge and Experience Required

- Experience (min. 5 years) in leading transformation initiatives in financial services

- Robust and accurate project plans & reporting to ensure transparency on projects' critical paths, key risks, issues and dependencies

- Excellent communication skills (written & verbally), including the ability to translate complex concepts into clear, concise presentations to enable decisioning

- Ability to lead by example, problem solve through proactively identifying risks and mitigating resistance

- Understand project lifecycles and lead smaller projects independently as required.

- Track record in effectively engaging and partnering across the organization

- A team player who is comfortable interacting with staff at all levels, including senior management

- Thrives in a dynamic, fast paced environment and can nimbly adapt to new and changing priorities