Sr Manager - Digital & Mobility Space

Candidates - Please don't apply if you don't have hands on exp (Design and Development in the past) along with Project Management exp on any one of the technologies related to Digital & Mobility and great communication Skills

Key Skills/experience

- Single accountable party for defining, planning, orchestrating, and delivering a given strategic initiative

- Directs large-scale, complex projects often involving multiple internal and external constituents and matrix partners

- Directly manages all aspects of the project lifecycle and works with matrix stakeholders to oversee all SDLC phases of a project

- Rigorously manages scope (work with the business to prioritise functionality to deliver business benefit) to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed on time, cost, and quality parameters

- Validates financial forecasts and provides on-going reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures

- Develops communication plans and interfaces to execute on responsibilities. Status reporting to senior management and other stakeholders, publishes periodic project status reports

- Promote agile best practice in the team (Daily Stand-Ups, Timebox Planning, Execution and Retrospectives)

- Serves as a subject matter expert in routinely briefing key stakeholders on different aspects of assigned initiatives

- Defines and tracks project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan

- Develops the integrated project plan, resource plan, Risk and Issue log (with contingency plan), performing Project Process Checklist (Quality Gates) and related project management artefacts

- Proposes recommendations and adjustments

Necessary Skills are:

13+ years of industry experience (preferably in Web related project management and execution) across the complete life cycle of systems projects with a minimum of 6 years in active project management.

- Need someone from Digital and Mobility space.

- Demonstrated, applied experience establishing and delivering complex projects

- Experience of managing multi team complex projects with full budgetary and delivery responsibilities

- Proven ability to quickly earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders; mobilize and motivate teams; set direction and approach; resolve conflict; deliver tough messages with grace; execute with limited information and ambiguity

- Ability to communicate at all levels with clarity and precision both written and verbally. Strong presentation skills

- Ability to navigate a highly matrixed organization effectively

- Solid influencing skills

- Sound business and technical acumen

- Focused and versatile team player that is comfortable under pressure

- Ability to remove barriers and enable teams to complete their objectives

- Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills

- Extensive work experience in process based project management, and implementing project / program level matrices to manage the projects quantitatively

- Understanding of emerging technologies

- Self motivated, flexible, with a ‘can do’ attitude.

- Ability to pick up business knowledge, new technology areas, new processes/methodologies and apply these changes in the day-to-day working of the systems organisation.

- Knowledge of the Mutual Fund industry would be desirable

Background in analysis and / or, preferably, hands-on technical development

- Excellent skills especially Microsoft Word (status reports), Excel (for planning and tracking, pivot tables, macros), Powerpoint (clear/concise presentation of information), MS Project (for planning/tracking) and sound systems knowledge

Attention to detail

Preferable Skills are:

- Awareness of formal project management methodology e.g PRINCE2, PMBoK

- Knowledge of JIRA

- Experience/knowledge of agile development methods e.g. SCRUM, XP

- Exposure to or understanding of technologies like JSP, Servlets, SOA, Struts, Websphere, Configuration
Management tools.

Skills and Personal Characteristics

- Good customer awareness, with ability to manage customer expectations, and service-oriented

- Good interpersonal skills and able to work face-to-face with clients

- Proficient oral and written skills

- Excellent planning and organisational skills

- Promote teamwork and demonstrate best practices on delivery of service, both internally and externally

- Flexible and positive attitude – with “can-do” approach, a self-starter that “can think on your feet”

- Disciplined and conscientious approach

- Ability to thrive in a rapidly changing and expanding environment