Position: Senior Project Manager
Company: Luxoft
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2020-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

Responsibilities:
Main Responsibilities / Accountabilities:
• Delivers projects within the constraints of scope, time and cost to agreed levels of quality, within the organization's project management framework.
• Defines, documents and manages projects with minimal supervision, working with multiple teams that may have differing priorities and working/cultural practices.
• Actively participates in all phases of the project or specific phases of larger projects. Identifies, assesses and manages risks to the success of the project
• Helps establish and operate business process, eg Cloud Demand Management
• Conduct analysis of as-is structures and target states via gap analysis. Knowledge of other business process mapping (eg value stream) is useful
• Effectively manage project team conflicts, build collaborative partnerships with stakeholders, and commitment to make decisions
• Estimates costs, timescales and resource requirements for the successful completion of each project to agreed scope and constraints.
• Prepares and maintains project plans and tracks activities against the plan
• Implement effective communication plans and operating rhythm, including provision of regular and accurate reports.
• Monitors costs, timescales and resources used, and takes action where these deviate from agreed tolerances. Ensures that deliverables are implemented within these criteria.
• Manages change control gaining agreement for revisions from project stakeholders.
• Provides effective leadership to the project team ensuring members are motivated and developing their skills and experience. Identifies any problems with sponsorship
• Effectively communicates difficult concepts to project stakeholders and modifies personal approach and style to reflect changing circumstance.
• Quality assurance of deliverables.
• Experience of operating in a matrix environment where not all resources and projects are directly under Cloud Portfolio line management



Scope and Impact
• Define, scope and manage bounded areas of project work while supporting business and program management staff.
• Leadership of medium-scale projects, may be global or regional in scope.
• Typical projects may include the entire lifecycle from requirements through to deployment or specific parts of the lifecycle of a larger project.
• Implementation may require product launch / direct impact on our customers' businesses.
• Complexity and risk to be managed typically associated with projects requiring 10s of FTE (equivalent of fulltime) staff, in multiple locations and project duration <=6 months
• Deliver projects to support Refinitiv ability to achieve revenue targets in customer segments.
Mandatory Skills:
Essential Skills/Experience Required
• Experience in delivering cloud projects as part of larger programs
• Experience in delivering complex technical projects, both Waterfall and Agile
• Experience of setting up business processes and operating them to BAU status


Expertise:
• Project management, Waterfall and Agile
• Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP etc at a non technical level)
• Change Management
• Vendor Management
• Financial management
• Business Analysis ad Business Operations
• Consultancy background with strategic skills would be a nice to have
• Degree or equivalent level of professional qualifications and/or experience
• Accomplished MS Office user (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams) and Jira/Confluence

Personal Attributes
• Cast iron integrity in all dealings, both internal and external
• Show concern for your work colleagues
• Thrive on change and demonstrate a "can-do" attitude to all things asked of you
• Be open and honest in dialogue, processes and seek consensus in decision making
• Be creative, co-operative and collaborative
• Tenacious
• Technology-curious
• Highly motivated self-starter
RELATIONSHIPS: INTERNAL / EXTERNAL
• Business Case Stakeholders (Product and Proposition Management)
• Technology Programme Office partners
• Business Programme Office partners
• Technology Delivery Managers
• Technology delivery teams (development, operations, architects)
• 3rd parties (vendors, exchanges, clients, service providers)
• Project and programme management colleagues

Languages:
English: B2 Upper Intermediate