Project Manager recruitment
Job Role: Senior Project Manager
Location: Taiwan or Hong Kong
Brief Summary
You will be responsible for managing implementation and integration of client solutions, based on Algorithmics' products, for various clients within the Greater China region.
- Delivering high-quality solutions that meet and exceed our clients’ expectations, on-time and on-budget
- Leading and managing project teams
- Building and maintaining client relationships
- Managing priorities and expectations across a variety of internal and external stakeholders
- Collaborating with clients to resolve any project issues and manage project risks
- Working on day-to-day project scheduling, time management, and resource management
- Tracking and reporting on project status and achievement of project deliverables
- Maintaining overall ownership for project success and quality assurance
Responsibilities
- To lead and be accountable for client projects, including:
- Sales support during initial contact and contract negotiations
- Estimation of effort
- Work breakdown structures and creation of project work plans
- Managing the on-going client relationship
- Overall delivery of projects comprising implementation and integration of Algorithmics’ Solutions at client sites.
- To directly undertake project management activities, including leading, monitoring, assigning work and delegating, managing all aspects of the project delivery and reporting on project progress
- To identify opportunities to sell additional services and support offerings during and after the customer implementation while acting within the overall sales strategy, engaging the sales organization for commercial support, as appropriate
- To identify incremental license sale opportunities and engage the sales organization to pursue the opportunity
- To oversee and assist with client implementations assigned to other project managers as required
- To provide “best practices” project management discipline to the organization, including mentoring other staff
- To build and lead effective and focused project delivery teams
- To maintain effective relationships with other parts of the Algorithmics organization (e.g. Research Development, Business Lines), as well as counterparts in other regions
Essential Requirements
- Extensive hands-on Project Management experience (preferably within a large traditional consulting firm within financial services, IT consulting organization, or information systems integrator).
- Experience managing and delivering technical projects (US$1M budget) across the Asia pacific region, especially China or Taiwan.
- Proven track record of success managing multi-disciplinary projects within cross-functional, matrix-managed environments
- Proven ability to manage to project objectives and milestones, and meet client time, budget and quality requirements
- Well developed client relationship skills and handling conflict resolution.
- Proven ability to establish and maintain long-term client relationships as well as establish and manage project-specific client expectations ,
- Excellent ability to build and lead efficient project teams, while managing the “soft issues” within the team
- Good knowledge of risk management, Basel II, AIRB (PD, LGD) modeling. Does not have to be a model builder, but should have a thorough understanding of the entire analytics’ life cycle and of the issues in the build of such models.
- Preferable to have experience with regulatory concerns for such model builds.
Proven ability to manage project risks and recommend appropriate solutions - Proficiency at managing multiple simultaneous projects
- Ability to develop and maintain positive relationships within a cross-functional matrix organization, enlisting commitment across various organizational units
- Excellent leadership, interpersonal, communication and presentation skills demonstrating an ability to manage staff in an operational environment and deliver to agreed timescales
- Working knowledge of formal systems development and integration methodologies, approaches, techniques and tools
- Strong technology background
- Significant experience in financial services
- Background in risk management disciplines is an asset, including Market Risk, Credit Risk, and Operational Risk
- Ability and willingness to conduct vast majority of the work at client sites and travel up to 40% of the time.
- Excellent English and mandarin skills, both verbal and written
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Commerce, Mathematics or related areas
- Project Management Professional (PMI or PRINCE II) designation is advantageous
The Company
Algorithmics an IBM Company is the world's leading provider of enterprise risk solutions. Financial organizations from around the world use Algorithmics' software, analytics and advisory services to help them make risk-aware business decisions, maximize shareholder value, and meet regulatory requirements. Supported by a global team of risk experts based in all major financial centers, Algorithmics offers proven, award-winning solutions for market, credit and operational risk, as well as collateral and capital management. Algorithmics is an IBM Company.
May 30, 2012
• Tags: Information Technology careers in the Taiwan, Project Manager recruitment • Posted in: Financial