Senior Project Manager Job in Creve Coeur 63141, Missouri US
Overview:
To lead the delivery of development projects from Initiation through Deployment, including all project activities to agreed quality, time and budget specifications while ensuring adherence to Thomson Reuter's project process.
Responsibilities:
Define, document and execute technical projects, actively participating in all phases of the project.
Actively engage with local and global development, operations, and product management groups to ensure synchronization and awareness of all plans.
Actively engage with off-shore and onshore development teams as necessary.
Taking responsibility for ensuring project plans are tightly coupled and deliverables aligned.
Actively engage with Business to ensure that the project aligns with given requirements.
Monitor deliverables from development teams ensuring smooth transition and handoff to various Reuters groups.
Create project plans and schedules and track progress against plans.
Establish project milestones that reflect realization of agreed business benefits within timeframe and budget.
Identify and track milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, changes and dependencies within the schedule.
Responsible for project risk management.
Identify, assess, manage and minimize project risks to successful project completion.
Responsible for project change control.
Ensure the appropriate solution or budget is presented so that projected business benefits are realised.
Ensure revisions to the project are agreed from stakeholders and full impact of changes is understood by stakeholders.
Work with stakeholder to ensure successful completion of all project deliverables.
Ensure all groups are aware of project scope, their responsibility for delivering projects and milestones.
Ensure the right resources are available at the right time with the right skills.
Monitor and report status from each deliverable group to all relevant parties.
Highlight divergence from scope and adjust where necessary.
Gain commitments to ensure corrective actions are taken if costs, timescales or resources deviate from agreed tolerances.
Participate in project estimations when requested to provide costs, timescales and resource requirements for the successful completion of each project to be estimated.
Ensure compliance with Reuters Project Process.
Maintain project library including all key project documentation.
Contribute to the ongoing development of project process, tools and techniques such that they develop in line with company organisational, technical and commercial requirements.
Perform other assignments as requested by manager.
At Thomson Reuters, we deliver intelligent information quickly and efficiently, so professionals have knowledge to act. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and scientific, healthcare, and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.
Required Skills:
A minimum of 5 plus year's project management experience or an equivalent combination of project management experience, business experience and education in the financial services business.
Experience managing software development or technical projects required.
Experience managing geographically distributed and multi-disciplinary project teams required.
Experience managing onshore and offshore development projects with extensive communication, risk management, extensive project reporting and project management tools experience a plus.
Experience creating complete detailed plans for complex projects and ability to track progress against plan.
Project risk management experience and extensive project reporting experience required.
Extensive project management software tools experience required.
Ability to gain technical understanding as appropriate to the project.
Proficiency in MS Office applications specifically Excel, Visio, PowerPoint and Project.
Excellent leadership and team-building skills.
Must be capable of managing several projects simultaneously in a dynamic environment.
Very strong interpersonal skills particularly motivational, negotiation, listening, judgement, analytic ability, and conflict management skills.
Excellent organization, verbal and written communication skills to explain project goals, inspire support and report on project status.
Excellent communication skills with particular attention to cross-culture communication and presentation skills.
Must be able to communicate effectively with direct and senior management.
Proven implementation skills.
Ability to get things done within given timeframe.
Attitude towards learning and passion for work.
Must be able to cope with continual change.
Experience with Reuters project management process, knowledge of Reuters product architecture, technology strategy, or Data Operations a plus.
Desired Skills:
Experience in management consulting is a plus.
Education:
Must have undergraduate degree. MBA preferred.
PMP Certification suggested.
At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 55,000 colleagues in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
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