Summary:
The role requires the candidate to partner with the Delivery Manager and Regional Leaders to manage and report diverse workstreams within the program. The role involves working in a cross-functional environment to effectively report project progress and track delivery.
Responsibilities
- Manage discovery activities, shape business cases, and translate business requirements into clear project scope, outcomes, and success criteria.
- Mobilize projects by establishing delivery structures, project plans, governance cadence, milestones, dependencies, and ways of working.
- Support solution option analysis by assessing business impact, benefits, risks, dependencies, and delivery considerations.
- Manage business risks, issues, dependencies, actions, and escalations with clear ownership and mitigation plans.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams and stakeholders across Finance, HR, IT, and impacted business areas to drive alignment and delivery progress.
- Prepare status updates, governance materials, and decision packs to support transparent reporting and stakeholder management.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required, with strong project management capability and experience supporting complex business change or transformation projects.
- 5+ years experience as a Project Manager (experience in Finance or Insurance industry)
- Experience working with senior stakeholders, Project Managers, Programme Managers, and cross-functional teams across multiple geographies.
- Good understanding of project delivery, governance, reporting, risk, issue, dependency, and escalation management.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, proactive, results-focused, and able to challenge constructively.
- Confident handling sensitive information and working in a confidential environment.
- Intermediate proficiency in MS Excel, PowerPoint, Office 365, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, and portfolio reporting tools.
Preferred Skills
- Managing discovery / business case creation
- Project mobilization
- Solution option analysis
- Managing business risks & issues
- Project governance & stakeholder management beyond sprint governance
