Senior Manager, Portfolio Delivery and Management

Senior Manager, Portfolio and Business Management, ADC/Datastream

Lead the delivery of an end-to-end technology and workforce transformation program for the >150 person Analytics Data Cloud / Datastream organization, which encompasses 20+ technology platforms and multiple Important Business Services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build positive relationships with the key partners, innovating with product management, business transformation and various other technology groups tightly connected to this technology transformation program.
• Oversee, with full budgetary accountability, financial management for the organization.
• Collaborate and work closely with other group technology functions to ensure that business and technical needs are addressed.
• Lead critical path work, schedule items, and escalate to leadership on potential risks and delays.
• Drives cost efficiency of delivery and maintenance through technology and process innovation.
• Implement a strong governance and risk management framework for technology delivery to identify risks early and to ensure appropriate reporting and remedial actions are undertaken to keep delivery on track.
• Assist the Director with all administrative aspects of the day-to-day running of the organization, including frequent special projects.
• Oversee the work of area program managers
  

Essential Skills

• Proven experience in Portfolio and Business Management on a broad scale. Financial Data Technology experience preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to champion culture change while leading a multi-year strategic program.
• Strong proficiency in program management with a history of delivery complicated programs.
• Able to lead in a highly matrixed organization, work with, and accept feedback from, a wide variety of collaborators, communicate complicated issues to senior decision makers, focusing on relevant details and considerations.
• Ability to analyze / review and work across various functions such as Business, Operations, Legal, Compliance and Regulation and comfortable communicating/presenting to all levels internally and externally
• Ability to present confidently to C-Level stakeholders

Job Description (Job advert content)

Drives the direction and delivery of major, high-risk programmes to achieve strategic objectives and transformational change.

Role Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities:

• Monitors overall progress of the programme, with particular focus on budgets, key milestones, resources, and dependencies
• Provides overall programme leadership, guidance and technical expertise to manage all aspects of a programme including requirements analysis, business case creation, planning and execution
• Holds ultimate accountability for delivery, managing programmes with great complexity, impact, risk, budget variances and change requests
• Aligns programmes to the strategic delivery, portfolio and transformation direction, ensuring prioritisation of key projects and devising new ideas and initiatives to support the organisation
• Produces reports for senior management and stakeholders on the progress of the programme against objectives and plans, highlighting any improvement areas and the requirements to correct them
• Promotes and fosters collaboration across broad categories of stakeholders (including customers), providing leadership in cross-functional meetings and representing the seniority of the programme or senior stakeholders in governance boards and committees
• Collaborates with the Head of Project & Programme Delivery to ensure the programme achieves objectives and aligns with business priorities
• Leads, coaches, and mentors programme and project managers within the programme, setting performance and delivery expectations to yield consistent results, whilst highlighting and promoting successful practices across the organisation
• Ensures all projects adhere to LSEG Group Standards for project methodology, governance and risk management.
• Ensure visibility of ongoing cost base and project finance for the organization
• Track and manage departmental budgets in alignment with finance

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent in Business Management, Finance or similar
• Demonstrable experience in portfolio management, business operations, transformation or other related field

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

Essential skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Stakeholder management across all levels of the organization
• Strong financial competence and understanding of CAPEX & OPEX
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Confident and able to hold people to account, challenge where required, and apply pragmaticism where appropriate

Desirable skills:

• Experience in Financial Data Technology, particulary with enterprise-scale platforms
• People management experience

Key Competencies:

• Critical Thinking
• Leadership
• Analytical Skills
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Innovation
• Data Modelling

Compensation/Benefits Information:

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. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

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