Project Manager (1 year contract)

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Job Profile Summary:
In this Project Manager role, you will support the Project Management Lead in managing all aspects of key initiatives, bringing together cross-functional teams to ensure end-to-end delivery of key initiatives to realise clear value and enduring benefits to the organisation.

Job Description:

Project Delivery, Risks and Budget Management

• Overall responsible for the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of a project.
• Track objectives, key deliverables, decisions & decision timelines, and delivery of strategic initiatives.
• Manage the delivery of projects according to agreed scope, timeline and cost
• Establish cross-functional working teams to promote active collaboration to drive initiative, and ensure clear accountability, to enable delivery of specific tasks.
• Ensure dependencies and challenges (risks) are managed and work with business to develop mitigation plans and ensures critical issues related to project are escalated to the Project Sponsor, Project Owner and/or Head of Project Management.
• Ensure timelines (milestones, decisions and delivery) are managed and value of initiative is achieved, without compromising quality and within budget Prepare project budgets and track costs to be within budget
• Conduct periodic project status review with all stakeholders
• Manage agenda and materials for the initiative Steering Committee meeting, ensuring all information to make effective decisions and such decisions are clearly documented.
• Monitor and report on the costs and value of strategic initiatives, providing initiative level analysis.
• Identify and communicate key risks, challenges and dependencies between initiatives, to enable issues and concerns to be flagged quickly and addressed.
• Establish and maintain central PM filing system. Ensure all key documentations are maintained and shared.

Business Solutioning

• Work with initiative Sponsor, Owners, Lead and working team to provide an effective solution design, with an embedded customer lens.

Communications

• Ensure regular communication with key stakeholders, understand any key concerns in how the initiative is being delivered or any risks, issues, dependencies and assumptions that have either not yet been identified or are not being progressed.
• Ensure an appropriate and coordinated communications plan is in place for initiative execution and delivery, both internal and external
• Manage all aspects of the initiative, by providing coaching and support to initiative Sponsors, Owners and Leads,
• Establish appropriate governance, framework and tools for managing initiatives
• Ensure initiative benefits are clear, key decisions are timely, resourcing is well managed, budgets are approved.
• Ensure decision cadence, delivery plans and reporting mechanisms are established and initiative progress is monitored.
• Ensure that deliverables are in accordance to relevant policies and procedures and project management governance requirements are followed and completed

Project Closure

• Ensure final handover of initiative to business as usual processes, carry out a post implementation review (as necessary) to ensure initiative objectives have been delivered, and any lessons learned are fed into future initiative management processes.

Who we are looking for:

Competencies & Personal Traits

• Strong business acumen, good collaboration skills and an effective team player
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, ability to communicate effectively and manage senior internal stakeholders.
• Ability to bring together and work with cross functional teams.
• Ability to run concurrent projects independently.
• Organised, methodical thinker with the ability to work under time pressure and to prioritise tasks.
• Meticulous to follow through on action plans and documentations to comply with governance requirements.

Working Experience:

• At least 5-8 years of project management, with broad business experience, ideally within financial services
• Experience in accounting system implementation is preferred.
• Experience in managing functional projects (eg. in Finance, Operations) is preferred.
• Previous experience in project management experience in multi-functional projects required.
• Experience in managing projects with the use of JIRA and Confluence applications.

Professional Qualifications :

• PMI-Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP) certification is advantageous
• Lean Six Sigma is advantageous

Education:

• Diploma, Bachelor degree or equivalent professional qualification

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.