About the job (A) Senior Project Manager
Senior Project Manager (System Application Development)
(1 year contract and renewable yearly if performance meet expectations.) Attached the JD for the open position. Below would be our minimal expectation for the candidate:
- Seasoned senior project manager with about 8-10 years experience in project management on system/applications development and end-to-end implementation
- Preferably local candidates
- PMP or any other project management certifications will be added value
- Experience in handling Agile project will be added value
- Candidates' past experience is from FI Financial Industry specifically Insurance.
Summary of Job Functions
1. To ensure a balanced portfolio of projects from a company-wide
perspective; manage and optimize project portfolio resources
and cost effectively as well as fosters transparency on project
portfolio performance to assure operational implementation of
corporate strategies.
2. To involve or assist in planning, organizing, managing and
controlling the various stages of the assigned medium to high
complexity projects in ensuring the projects are executed
according to the schedule, cost and quality.
3. To support small changes in system and business process by
providing guidance and oversight to the stakeholders.
4. Responsible for making sure Agile Team lives by the values and
practices of Scrum.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
1. Set policies, framework, procedures and that defines the
establishment, management and control of the projects portfolio
2. Provides consistent project management guidance, methods,
tools and techniques for consistent project outcomes all over the
organization
3. Prompt coordination with business units, technical team,
governance team and service provider on project implementation
plan
4. Identify and report project issues, slippage of tasks or milestone
and project risks to Project Manager and facilitate timely
resolution
5. Conduct Scrum ceremonies including organizing and facilitating
sprint planning, daily stand-ups meeting, sprint review,
retrospective meeting etc
6. Eliminate impediments and actively address issues so that the
team can remain focused on achieving the objectives of the
Iteration.
7. Provides timely reports on project status, budget spending, risks
and issues to enable early visibility into project performance for
better decision making by the authorized person or committee
8. Promotes and take accountability for project quality, opportunity
to improve delivery
9. Ensures PMO practice, approach and governance processes are
applied consistently
10. Manage project changes, ensuring any changes to the project
baseline are managed through change request and all impacts
are considered
11. Adopt an agile and flexible approach to work and an
outstanding level of professionalism and conduct
12. Management and coordination of all cross-functional initiatives
with organizational impact