Senior Project Manager for the Test Re-engineering

Division: Group Business Solutions (GBS)

Please note that this is a permanent position and we do not offer a contract or freelancing arrangement.

In the context of our test transformation, we are seeking a senior project manager to lead the workstream for ‘Non-Regret Moves’ and to prepare the projects that support the upcoming test re-engineering initiative!

You are responsible for the end-to-end delivery of your projects, which includes:

• Delivering the project scope on time, within budget, and with the expected quality.
• Writing comprehensive project memos that enable the Business Sponsor and IT management to make informed decisions.
• Providing regular status updates to the Project Sponsor and various partners.
• Supervising the expected benefits as approved in the business cases.

More specifically, you will :

• Create and maintain project plans and forecasts, including resource requirements, costs, risks, their mitigations, and dependencies with other projects.
• Lead virtual teams across various divisions and entities, including third-party suppliers in India.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with your customers, providing advice, guidance, and options with regard to IT investments.
• Define deliverables, assign their production to project team members, and supervise progress and quality of those deliverables, ensuring they respect the planning while maintaining good relationships.
• Lead the staffing of assigned projects and supervise the budget spent.
• Lead the risk, issue, and change control processes for assigned projects, build an action plan to mitigate risks/solve issues, and track action items.
• Control and monitor the progress of projects, reporting to the Roadmap Manager and the Sponsorship Committee.
• Manage the project according to Euroclear internal standards (methodology & tools).

Technical skills

• Experience in leading projects (minimum 10 years)
• Experience in testing domain
• Experience with the management of testing with external organisations such as T2S or Swift (including external stakeholders management)
• Experience in managing projects with external suppliers (including negotiation and contracts management with external suppliers with the support of specialized teams)
• Fluent in English

Soft skills

• Strong leadership skills to adapt your style according to the situation and to the different partners
• Good business and/or technical understanding
• Interpersonal skills to influence decisions taken with the project sponsor/client
• Excellent communication skills (listening, writing and presenting) at all levels, from staff members to senior management
• Ability to learn quickly in a complex environment and to synthesize the situation
• Strong negotiation skills, conflict management and influencing skills at different levels of management
• Effective delegation of tasks and responsibilities while maintaining overall control
• Assertiveness to drive tasks to completion

Assets

• Certification in PRINCE 2 and/or PMI (or similar IT frameworks)
• Experience within the Euroclear environment

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