for Senior Project Manager

Job Description

About the opportunityDepartment DescriptionThe Workplace Investing and Personal Financial Health (WPFH) Technology provides systems development, business analysis, architecture & engineering, implementation and support services for FIL s Workplace Investing, Personal Investing and Advisory businesses in UK, Continental Europe, Asia Pacific regions.Fidelity Personal Investing (PI) offers a guidance service to customers who wish to invest directly with Fidelity (without a financial adviser or broker). We have PI offerings in the UK, Germany, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong.The Advisor Platform is where intermediaries and clients linked with intermediaries can invest on the platform. Financial advisers manage their business and Fidelity support them in giving the most effective advice to clients looking to save money and plan for their retirements. This is done through our Fidelity Platform Business - FundsNetwork (FNW) in UK, Fidelity Frankfurter Fondsbank (FFB) in Germany & Austria.Workplace Investing offers investments and administrative services for both global and local corporate pension schemes and their employees. The corporate is the client of Fidelity and the employees are the members of the scheme. There are WI offerings in the UK, Germany and Hong Kong, along with the IPP based out of Dublin serving international companies.Purpose of your roleThe Senior Project Manager is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of technology change projects. Working with the Programme Director you will be accountable for the successful delivery of multiple technology change projects, responsibilities will include:
• Governance and the coordinated management of projects and change management activities
• Project coordination: identifying, initiating, accelerating, decelerating, redefining and terminating projects within the programme. Managing interdependencies between projects, and between projects and business-as-usual activities
• Ensuring successful provision of enhanced services from the current set of applications & services, both internally and vendor supplied. Including managing their on-going change, enhancements and maintenance.
• Stakeholder management and communications: ensuring that relationships are developed and maintained, thus enabling productive, two-way communication with all key stakeholders.
• On-boarding of new applications & services, both internally and vendor supplied
Key Responsibilities
• Plan and manage the overall project deliverables, issues, risk, plans and governance
• Manage the programme/project budget costs
• Work with business, technical (internal & external) and control teams to create robust and appropriate project plans
• Identify, communicate, and put in place appropriate mitigation for project risks and dependencies
• Hands-on programme/project management for your deliverables including the matrix management of the end-to-end project teams
• Leading project team to ensure successful delivery of agreed scope on schedule & within budget
• Regular reviews and assurance with project managers
• Gaining a thorough knowledge of the projects being undertaken in terms of scope, functionality, risk & issues, timelines and cost. Ability to forecast and create roadmaps to achieve goals.
• Managing the test and build environments associated with project workstreams
• Co-ordinating across multiple system groups and ensuring all impacted parties are co-ordinated and deliver to a common project goal
• Improving and assessing performance to apply new learning and knowledge
• Required to effectively influence and assist key stakeholders, support multiple change initiatives and oversee and drive communication streams within and across change programmes in the portfolio
Experience and Qualifications Required
• Minimum of 13 years of IT experience in Financial Services sector with proven project management experience across the whole project lifecycle
• Industry exposure and 5 years hand-on experience of managing large and diverse portfolio delivery in a global delivery model, preferably in Financial Services sector
• Proven track record of successful implementations and strong business relationships
• Self-starter. Excellent team player, disciplined, very structured with a conscientious approach
• Ability to multi-task with strong and effective organisation skills. Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Excellent team management skills. Practical experience of management and motivation of teams.
• Strong communication skills with strong client management and negotiation skills
• Delivery and results focused with the ability to manage complex relationships
• Management of multiple projects within a programme
• Exposure to agile and waterfall delivery methodologies
• Ability to take high level directions/ideas and turn these into the required deliverables with the minimum of guidance
• Pragmatically apply knowledge and experience to ensure activities/processes undertaken as conducted in a cost-effective manner
• Ability to work with clients to a senior level
Behavioural competencies
• Leadership: Experience of managing key stakeholders at executive leadership level across the firm as well as with direct reports. Fostering entrepreneurial spirit and a culture of high performance and delivery excellence.
• Relationship Management: Build and maintain effective relationships with customers and partners, to articulate and transfer relationship needs/requirements into actionable tasks and outputs.
• Managing Complexity: Is able to deliver results and effectively function across a variety of market conditions and in environments or projects that are nonlinear, fast-paced and often characterized by incomplete information.
• Teamwork and collaboration: Participate in and promotes co-operative working relationships across organizations and matrix environments including knowledge sharing, partnership in achieving solutions and productive conflict management.
• Drive for results: Personal ownership and accountability for delivering against commitments. Monitoring performance against plans and resetting direction as necessary. Delivering against challenging timescales. Ability to demonstrate duality of thinking; balance strategic objectives with tactical delivery and an eye for detail. Hands on and involved.
About you About Fidelity InternationalWe ve been helping our clients plan and save for the futures they want for over 50 years. From more than 25 locations around the world, we provide investment services and retirement expertise to 2.5 million clients everyone from central banks and financial institutions to wealth managers and private individuals. We think generationally and look to the long term. And today, building on the security of private ownership and our strong sense of purpose, we re growing our business like never before.What it s like to work here.In our welcoming, caring culture, you ll feel valued, trusted and free to express yourself. We recognise the value of inclusion and diversity in culture, in thought and in experience. With this in mind, please let us know if you feel you might benefit from any reasonable adjustments to perform to the best of your ability during the recruitment process and beyond.As well as a clear commitment to inclusion, we offer real flexibility about where, when and how you work. It s an approach we call dynamic working , and you ll find it brings the very best out in you.Getting startedFor more about who we are, how we work and the part you could play in both our progress and our future, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com .Or, if you re feeling inspired, start your journey with us right now.APPLYApplying to this Job Role: Please note you are only required to upload your CV/Resume to the application screen.,

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