Desktop Project Manager

Project Manager is responsible for the project management of multiple projects which are delivering core platform capabilities, shared components and/or shared services for LSEG Desktop, providing project leadership, improve teams delivery by building and supporting our delivery culture, and providing mentoring and guidance.

The Project Manager will define, scope and manage several projects of medium size/complexity and will work with senior project and other management to ensure technical and/or business objectives are achieved. These projects will be within LSEG’s Desktop Platform portfolio, bridging the gap between technology and business change to deliver on the wider business strategy.

The technology delivery teams are currently enhancing a range of powerful Applications that help customers understand the markets and make crucial decisions while helping them to connect to the world’s largest verified directory of financial professionals on a platform that acts as a catalyst for innovation in global financial services industry.

Key relationships & committees

The role requires relationship management with technology peers and engineers in multiple locations, architects, other project managers, product managers and commercial stakeholders in other parts of the organisation for Workspace and other key platforms.

**Responsibilities**:
Key responsibilities
- Actively leads the development of project artifacts, integrated project plans, resource and contingency plans, ensuring they are scoped and documented and that risk management processes are followed
- Improve the delivery of LSEG Desktop, focusing on ensuring timeliness and effective ceremonies
- Communicates, and champions the delivery of a method of working for and with the engineering team to manage the efficient delivery of a given project
- Builds effective relationships to ensure the success of the project
- Effectively communicates highly complex ideas at multiple organizational levels and modifies personal approach and style to reflect changing circumstance
- Identifies and manages project and programme dependencies within Desktop and across D&A
- Delivers software product projects within the constraints of scope, time and cost to agreed levels of quality, within the organization’s project management framework.
- Effectively manage project team conflicts, build collaborative partnerships with stakeholders, and commitment to make decisions
- Estimates costs, timescales and resource requirements for the successful completion of each project to agreed scope and constraints.
- Implement effective communication plan and operating rhythm, including provision of regular and accurate reports.
- Monitors costs, timescales and resources used, and takes action where these deviate from agreed tolerances. Ensures that deliverables are implemented within these criteria.
- Manages change control gaining agreement for revisions from project stakeholders.
- Provides effective leadership to the project team ensuring members are motivated and developing their skills and experience. Identifies any problems with sponsorship
- Manages complex, large-scale and/or high-risk projects that involve multiple senior internal and external stakeholders
- Partners with project sponsors/stakeholders (including customers) to define project objectives, milestones and success criteria and develops status reports to update senior stakeholders on project progress, and gains commitments to ensure corrective actions take place if required
- Anticipates issues and delays and evaluates trade-offs between project size, complexity, cost, risk etc. effectively assessing and resolving high-priority project risks
- Leads multiple workstreams and large project teams throughout the project lifecycle delivering results that meet the success parameters stated in the business case
- Manages the project budget request process and performs regular financial reviews, tracking and measuring financial performance and key metrics against plan and validating financial forecasts
- Ensures all projects adhere to LSEG Group Standards for project methodology, governance and risk management.

Leadership responsibilities
- Extensive experience of working in large matrix organisation.
- Extensive experience delivering multi-year complex technology deliverables.
- Working with senior stakeholders in technology, product and business.
- Ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organisation.
- Drive to succeed in face of challenges.
- Ability to work across different functions e.g. architecture, product teams, proposition teams and project managers
- Authority in SAFe and project management processes.

Critical deliverables
- Define, scope and manage bounded areas of project work while supporting business and program management staff.
- Leadership of medium-scale projects, may be global or regional in scope.
- Typical projects may include the entire lifecycle from requirements through