Project Manager at Giesecke+Devrient

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS (DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES):

• To establish and maintain effective working relationships with all internal and external stakeholders.
• To understand high-level technical architecture and be able to facilitate debate and drive decisions on appropriate solutions.
• To ensure that operational workflow requirements are produced to standard in a timely manner.
• To be responsible for the project administration and the production of project documentation, e.g., project plans.
• To monitor and manage the project processes and ensure that any elements which fail in the workflow are remedied.
• To track progress against milestones, deadlines and budget. To Report on these items to key stakeholders and to provide dependency information into the bank delivery team for their business projects.
• To anticipate, manage and resolve issues and act as the point of contact for the project.
• To use best practice risk management, assessing risks in an informed and considered manner and to plan for the mitigation of these risks.
• To run in-house projects on a day-to-day basis and take responsibility for their delivery using agile and more formal techniques as appropriate.
• Provide support and assistance in the promotion and adoption of Programme & Project Management best practices.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• NDip/ Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, engineering or similar qualification
• Project Management qualification

EXPERIENCE:

• 5 years’ or more experience in Project Management
• Track record of delivering infrastructure projects within a technically complex and dynamic environment, specifically that required to support multiple business projects notably in the Cash Management industry. Experience of successfully engaging management and groups of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of Programme Management, e.g., Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), Prince2 and agile project management tools and methodologies.
• Experience of successfully managing the delivery of multiple projects.
• Experience of managing business change
• Able to demonstrate strong management skills including project management, financial management, change management and facilitation.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILL & ABILITIES

• Ability to cope in a technically complex and fast-changing environment, and to respond calmly and rationally to changing aspirations in a deadline-driven situation.
• Strong planning and organising skills including the ability to manage several work streams simultaneously.
• Determination and focus to drive projects through to implementation.
• Excellent communication skills with a capacity to present, discuss and explain issues coherently and logically both in writing and verbally.
• Good influencing and persuasion skills with the ability to enthuse and inspire multidisciplinary teams and build successful relationships at all levels.
• Good team player, self-motivated and able to work on own initiative.
• Computer literate, able to quickly and efficiently use a wide range of common Office software including Word, Excel, Project and Power Point).
• Clear decision-making ability with the facility to judge complex situations and assess when to escalate issues.
• Ability to balance conflicting and changing demands through prioritisation and a pragmatic approach