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In a challenging and multicultural environment, we seek a senior lead project manager to manage the Project management (PM) team and to drive the complex programs/projects, part of the control tower section. Mission: by mobilizing and managing project teams and contributors, you will conduct projects from inception to completion, to reach the project goals in terms of quality, planning and budget. Within an international environment, you will have to liaise with all kind of stakeholders and align your resources to the target set together with the business in order to meet the bank objectives.
Job Responsibility:
Manage the list of CIB IT projects, collaborating with leadership across the departments and prioritize projects based on the business need
Direct the work of Project managers and provides managerial oversight for multiple projects
Act as point of escalation for the Project management team
Create and develop a governance structure for efficient stakeholder management
Promote the project management service
Develops organizational project management capabilities through training, coaching, and individual meetings/discussions
Develop strategy for control and governance structures to ensure desired outcomes across the projects
Monitor and analyse project metrics and to propose improvements and cost savings for future projects
Ensure successful delivery of all projects against cost, time, scope, quality and security measures
Operate autonomously and handle large scale APAC/EMEA regional IT projects by understanding local regulations
Clarify the needs of the client and translate them into rigorous requirement lists
Identify standard and project specific deliverables, key assumptions, follow and mitigate risks and issues
Anticipate early in the project any compliance / regulatory requirement and start informing stakeholders of such risk and measure their impact
Define, measure and report project KPI with right level of information
Identify right resource within teams and constitute / coordinate project team members
Report or escalate any important risk and issues to Sponsor and local management for appropriate action
Create, review or adapt when necessary existing processes to make them more relevant, efficient and optimal
Communicate to Sponsor any change with right level of information and manage to get his approval
Follow, report budget actual/forecast to project stakeholders and local management
Set relevant control in place to ensure that what has been delivered meets requirements validated
Manage and document the project hand over with production teams
Continuously improve project management toolkits
Requirements:
Minimum of 8 years of relevant experiences, ideally in a CIB banking environment
Leadership
Excellent team management skills
Strong ability to understand the big picture
Ability to drill down complex issues to simple comprehensible terms
Demonstrated skill to work across functions, regions and cultures
Excellent problem solving and conflict resolution skillset
Strong communication with wide variety of individuals at all executive levels
Ability to Influence and motivate
Expertise in project cycle management and methodology
Ability to anticipate and manage risks
Hands on knowledge and understanding of Infrastructure main components
Strong project management experience with ability to work on multiple projects at the same time
PMP or other certification would be a plus
Experience in dealing with detailed IT Architecture in banking industry
Practical knowledge in Network, Security, Data Center, Windows, Linux, Aix, VMware, Citrix, SAN, Kubernetes and Middleware components
Exposure working with DevOps & Cloud technologies
Familiarity in handling Cyber Security and regulatory projects
Strong experience in working with tools like MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Visio
Understanding of software development will be a plus
High organizational skills including time management
Excellent verbal and written communication across all levels of the organization
Team player mindset
Able to cope with multiple technologies, environment and teams, with high pressure
Good influencing, negotiation, conflict resolution and data analysis skills
Able communicate in Chinese languages, as this position need to manage projects in China/Taiwan/HK
Nice to have:
PMP or other certification would be a plus
Understanding of software development will be a plus