Project Manager

Role Purpose:

• Leading planning and implementation of both internal and external projects to achieve organizational targets
• Empower and lead the team to maximise their potential
• Provide drive and thought leadership in evaluating and implementing applicable Agile process and methodologies
• Effectively communicate project status and progress in all relevant forums developing stakeholder confidence
• Client and Third-Party management (at Senior Management level) on applicable projects or workstreams in UK and Europe

Key responsibilities

• Guide and coach, the team in following agile practices.
• Produce project plans and milestones for executing product backlog
• Help provide vision and direction to the team and stakeholders.
• Support the Product Owner in planning and prioritising the backlog according to business value.
• Proactively liaise with clients to ensure successful client implementations.
• Manage risk, issues, and dependencies of the projects
• Commercial management at appropriate level
• Contractual awareness when supporting external clients/third-parties
• Provide visibility and progress of the projects against the plan to all stakeholders
• Help ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of well, prepared user stories to work on.
• Support iteration planning, realisation of user stories and release planning.
• Ensure impediments impacting successful team completion of sprint goals are removed.
• Effective stakeholder support and co-ordination
• Conduct retrospectives and facilitate continuous improvement.
• Keep abreast of agile best practices and new trends.

KPIs and Measures

• Projects delivered within the agreed constraints or deviations managed through change management process
• Well managed milestones, dependencies, issues, and risks
• Energized and supportive team delivering to their full potential.

Key deliverables

• Project initiation documents
• Agile process and methodologies Project plans, RAID log
• Iteration progress reports
• Project progress reports
• Professional respect of stakeholders and clients

Key Stakeholders

• Account management team
• Client success team
• Product team
• Implementation team
• COO

Competencies (knowledge, skills, experience)

• 5 -10 years of appropriate experience in Agile product development and delivery
• Agile and waterfall methodologies
• Ability to shape projects (both green-field and progressive projects).
• Self-starter
• Lean product development
• Team Management
• Client and Stakeholder Management
• Leadership, creative thinking, decision-making, accountability, determination to succeed, team player
• Wealth Management domain knowledge would be advantageous but not essential for the right candidate.
• Flexibility to support European travel in support of business initiatives is a requirement of the role

Education & Qualifications

• Degree level education
• Project management certification
• Agile certifications
• A second, European language (French, German, Italian) considered advantageous