Associate Project Manager, HSBC

HSBC

Location:
Mexico, Azcapotzalco

Category:
Banking

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

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Job Description:

HSBC is seeking an experienced professional for the Associate Project Manager Jr role. The position involves planning and executing projects, managing risks, ensuring stakeholder buy-in, maintaining governance processes, and driving outcomes in line with the business case. Applicants should have strong project management, stakeholder management, and organizational skills, ideally in a banking environment.

Job Responsibility:

Plans effectively around delivery constraints and optimizes the plan to maximize benefits and minimize risk
Develops the plan within constraints, considering the delivery approach, key milestones and dependencies within the plan, requirements, and scope, effort and resources, budgets, and quality
Ensures the baselined scope, requirements, benefits, schedule and budget are managed as outlined in the Change Framework
Identifies and intervenes where there is slippage and variance from plan
Proactively monitors project execution to effectively identify risks/issues/dependencies as they arise throughout the project lifecycle
Takes ownership of critical issues and ensures resolution within agreed timescales and implements mitigating plans against identified risks and issues
Escalates when needed to the Programme Manager
Collaborates and builds positive stakeholder and business partner relationships providing regular updates to resolve high priority issues affecting the project
Obtains buy-in from the project sponsor, Steering Committee and other business partner stakeholders for all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, quality assurance plans, budget, schedule, and scope changes
Analyses management reports and derives insights from it to drive the right business decisions
Sets the pace and operating rhythm, driving a culture of achievement and ensures pace by identifying and removing barriers to project success
Promotes pace and energy within the team and leads by example
Keeps focus on the medium- and long-term goals and the Group’s values particularly when under short term pressure
Manages change and implementation within the business to ensure the change lands well and sticks, contributing to benefits realization
Manages project closure and handover to the business
Mobilizes the project team and allocates tasks and roles
Ensures governance processes and decisions are applied consistently
Engaging the project sponsor and stakeholders effectively
Creation and running of effective Steering Committee, who make focused decisions, based upon accurate and timely status, performance reports
Using the committee as the first point of escalation
Seeks project quality assurance, acting on recommendations
Plans and executes regular tollgates in line with Change Framework.

Requirements:

Excellent understanding of the project lifecycle
Excellent understanding of Global Transformation Change Framework and best practice techniques
Understanding of the purpose, value, culture, and fundamentals of Global Transformation
Understanding of banking / HSBC and understanding of how change drives benefits for HSBC, its customers, and other stakeholders
Project management skills and experience
People manager and broad experience in managing teams of different work streams
Examples of the delivery of on time and on budget projects that achieve business case stated outcomes – a driver with bias towards delivery at pace and controlling project outcomes
In depth experience of working in a banking environment and change projects
Stakeholder management experience, especially impactful communication, influencing and running project governance Implementation, change management and benefits realization
Implementation, change management and benefits realization
Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy but is also a good team player
Confident, articulate and have a high degree of personal integrity
Experience in metrics and providing management intelligence (MI) or other reporting highly required
Experience of report generation, presentations to senior stakeholders, data collations, data reviews
Strong usage of Office suite – Excel, PowerPoint, Word
PMP certification or training desirable
Prince2 - Optional
Agile / SAFe training or certification – Optional
For process controller & RPA command center roles, bachelor’s in computer science preferred.

Nice to have:

PMP certification or training desirable
Prince2 - Optional
Agile / SAFe training or certification – Optional
For process controller & RPA command center roles, bachelor’s in computer science preferred.

What we offer:

A greater number of leave days for events like weddings, new family members, or loss of a loved one
Paid leave package at the forefront in Mexico
Professional development
Flexible working
Opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment.

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
August 02, 2025

Expiration:
August 16, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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