Product Implementation Project manager

Title: Product Implementation Project manager

Location: Princeton, NJ(Hybrid)

Type: Contract

Responsibilities:

• This role involves managing large product implementations that involve high degree of product development effort and customization.
• Driving clients and internal teams to ensure projects are delivered according to defined scope, dates and budget.
• Project management, leadership, dependency management and cross-group collaboration skills with a proven track record of leading complex projects with multiple stakeholders/partners.
• Ability to engage competently with client at all levels of the organization.
• P&L responsibility for the project.
• Contribute as required to process improvements, pre-sales and team development initiatives within the team.

Basic Qualification required:

• Must have Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience in program/project management delivering software products or services, product development in financial services domain
• 3+ years of working in a similar Product & solutions company with exposure to post trade automation business domain OR similar experience.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering highly complex IT transformation projects within the financial services industry.
• Good written, presentation, and verbal communications skills that can applied across organizational levels
• Good business knowledge in post trade automation space
• Excellent client facing skills. A good communicator with strong relationship building skills.
• Training or understanding of standard project management methodologies e.g. PMI.
• Must be in office at client in Princeton, NJ 2 days/week

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent influencer with proven ability to work collaboratively in a matrix organization.
• Certification in Project/program management (PMP OR equivalent)
• Flexible and adaptable to project needs and changing priorities. Strong inter-personal skills with practical, can-do approach.
• Ability to work to strict deadlines and manage own time accordingly