Senior Project Manager

About Us:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It's how we've contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.

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Role Summary:

Senior Project Manager focused on delivering Analytics products/offerings with a primary delivery focus on Product Maintenance and Risk & Resilience initiatives; the role involves close coordination across a diverse and global group of collaborators towards aligning on deliverables and ensuring these are delivered on time, in scope, and on budget. The role requires coordination across engineering and product teams.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Drives the direction and delivery of assigned high-risk projects to achieve strategic objectives and transformational change
• The successful candidate for this role will exhibit strong project management skills and be capable of supervising overall progress of the project, with particular focus on budgets, key milestones, resources, and dependencies.
• Providing overall project leadership, guidance and technical expertise to lead all aspects of a project or initiative, including requirements analysis, business case creation, planning and execution
• Holding ultimate accountability for delivery, leading projects/initiatives with significant complexity, impact and risk
• Promoting and fostering collaboration across broad categories of stakeholders, leading cross-functional meetings and gaining commitments to ensure corrective actions take place if required
• Collaborating with the Portfolio Director to ensure projects achieve objectives and align with business priorities
• Aligning team priorities and activity to the strategic delivery and transformation direction, ensuring prioritisation of key projects and devising new ideas and initiatives to support the organisation
• Providing project reporting and status to senior management
• Developing resourcing strategies to ensure optimum support for day-to-day operational activities and addressing issues
• Leading programme-level risks and interdependencies, budget variances and change requests; and ensuring all projects adhere to LSEG Group Standards for project methodology, governance and risk management.

Key Relationships:

• Senior leaders in multiple business units, teams from: Engineering, security, compliance, legal, proposition, product management, finance, technology, sales, marketing, business leads, and customer operations

What You'll Bring:

• Extensive business experience in a large, dynamic organisation with strong project management skills
• Experience running large projects or programmes in constantly evolving environments (with international teams)
• Significant people management experience (This is an individual contributor role but influencing other key partners is required throughout the project lifecycle)
• Self-starter with positive, proactive, assertive presence to motivate and inspire and establish and maintain credibility with senior management
• Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to tailor messages to audience
• Strong analytical skills with track record of problem solving and decision making
• Strong cross functional team engagement and teamwork skills
• High level of proficiency with MS Office applications

Desired Skills:

• Broad business knowledge with a good understanding of LSEG, the market it engages with and its strategic objectives
• Knowledge of Analytics business is an asset
• Knowledge of Clarity, Asana, PowerBI is helpful
• Exposure to Technology Risk & Resilience and Product Maintenance initiatives would be useful, e.g. Capacity, Obsolescence, Cyber

Education / Certificates:

• Bachelor's degree
• Professional certification such as PMP from the Project Management Institute is desirable

Benefits:

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career

We maximise each employee's potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days' holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events
• All LSEG colleagues with at least one year's continuous service, who become parents, are now entitled to at least 26 weeks' paid leave, and the option to return to work on a phased basis, in relation with specific company's policy and guidelines

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone's race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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