Project Management Lead

Responsibilities:

• Manages a large multi-faceted project/account/campaign or multiple projects at the same time.
• Owns project goals leveraging expertise to inspire a sense of shared purpose within the project team. Drives end results of the project as a representative of the business.
• Uses best practice PMO methodology to create a project plan to fit the stakeholders/customers’ needs and deliver within budget on desired outcomes.
• Prepares, maintains, and submits clear and concise activity/progress reports and time recording/management reports. Assesses project risk potentials and discover potential problems before they occur, applies a proactive approach in routinely tracking the project participant progress against project goals.
• Constantly improving their own and their teams' skills through lessons-learned reviews at project completion. Applies lessons learned from recent projects to future projects.
• Articulates problems, bring the right people together to solve problems and know when the problem has been properly addressed and closed. Proactively follows escalation and change control processes.
• Promotes good working relationships across a project, cultivating the people skills needed to develop trust and communication among all of a project's stakeholders: its sponsors, those who will make use of the project's results, those who command the resources needed, and the project team members.

Qualifications:

• 6-10 years of project management experience – preferably from financial services environment.
• PMP certification strongly preferred, Six Sigma a plus.
• Ability to develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals.
• Knowledge of project metrics, including gathering, reporting, trend analysis, creation, and metrics.
• Ability to identify issues and problems, generate solutions and choose appropriate alternatives using basic root cause analysis.
• Manage project scope by assessing requirements changes, determining and conveying impact on budget, time and risk.
• Manage client expectations, anticipates operational and tactical risks and tracks them; clarify, identify, and track requirements and issues, remove barriers, resolve minor project issues and escalate to immediate manager where required.
• Proficient in MS Office applications, MS Project, VISIO, Adobe Acrobat Professional.
• Stays abreast of current industry trends and new technology through professional associations, trade journals, networking, and associated training and seminars.

In return, we offer:

• Competitive salary & social benefits (e.g. private healthcare care, Benefit System, life insurance)
• Work in a friendly and diversified environment, appreciating differences in style and perspective and using them to add value to decisions leading to organizational success
• A great environment for learning new technology and tools, online and instructor led training opportunities
• Working in a friendly, dynamic and multinational environment
• Opportunity to have an influence on the way you perform your tasks - our teams are constantly looking for new and better ways and we encourage all improvement ideas
• A chance to make a difference with various affinity networks and charity initiatives