State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is the world's leading provider of financial services to institutional investors including investment servicing, investment management, market research and trading. With $28.4 trillion in assets under custody and administration and $2.48 trillion in assets under management State Street operates in 29 countries and more than 100 geographic markets and employs over 29,000 worldwide promoting a culture of excellence.
At the moment we are looking for candidates for
Individual contributor without direct line management responsibilities.
Possible matrix reporting structures within project teams.
Purpose Of Role:
The Project Manager is responsible for meeting project goals within agreed scope, time and budget.
The jobholder may also assist the Programme Manager/Portfolio Manager with large regional projects.
Specific Duties:
The main duties include but are not limited to:
- Project Manager oversees projects to ensure that activities are carried out in accordance with established specifications, schedules and budgets;
- Leads engagement work planning, scoping, and budget development in line with engagement strategy and deliverables; assembles engagement team;
- Provides overall engagement management, including work plan, issue resolution, and close management of scope change;
- Efficient communication and relationship management with multiple stakeholders including (Sponsors, Senior Management, PMO, project members, business units, end users)
- Prioritization and time management to support multiple projects/tasks in parallel
- Management of a temporary project team within the matrix reporting structure
- Adherence to State Street's internal PMO methodologies and standards
- Ad-hoc reporting according to needs of stakeholders.
- Risk and Issues identification and mitigation
- Reports project progress status
- Process and data analysis.c
- Collaboration with other PMO team members on local PMO processes
Core Business Requirements:
- Proven experience in project or programme management
- Knowledge of PRINCE2 or PMI methodology standards
- Understanding of Lean or other process improvement concepts.
- Experience in change management
- Proficiency in French is a must. Knowledge of other languages is an advantage.
Core skills:
- Evidence of strong communication, negotiation skills.
- Excellent managerial skills enabling managing project team working under tight deadlines.
- Excellent analytical skills.
- Strong presentation and facilitation skills including experience in face to face presentations to senior management.
- Strong relationship management skills.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Problem solving ability.
Other:
- Knowledge of the financial industry
- Advanced PC literacy including MS Office applications (Excel, Word), Outlook, Collaborate/SharePoint, Project.
- Challenging and clear career path
- Work in stimulating international environment
- Wide range of competitive benefits
- Comprehensive training and career development program
- Wide scale Corporate Social Responsibility program