Senior Project Manager for the Test Re-engineering

Job Description

Division: Group Business Solutions (GBS)

Please note that this is a permanent position and we do not offer a contract or freelancing arrangement.

In the context of our test transformation, we are seeking a senior project manager to lead the workstream for ‘Non-Regret Moves’ and to prepare the projects that support the upcoming test re-engineering initiative!

You are responsible for the end-to-end delivery of your projects, which includes:

• Delivering the project scope on time, within budget, and with the expected quality.
• Writing comprehensive project memos that enable the Business Sponsor and IT management to make informed decisions.
• Providing regular status updates to the Project Sponsor and various partners.
• Supervising the expected benefits as approved in the business cases.
  
  

More Specifically, You Will

• Create and maintain project plans and forecasts, including resource requirements, costs, risks, their mitigations, and dependencies with other projects.
• Lead virtual teams across various divisions and entities, including third-party suppliers in India.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with your customers, providing advice, guidance, and options with regard to IT investments.
• Define deliverables, assign their production to project team members, and supervise progress and quality of those deliverables, ensuring they respect the planning while maintaining good relationships.
• Lead the staffing of assigned projects and supervise the budget spent.
• Lead the risk, issue, and change control processes for assigned projects, build an action plan to mitigate risks/solve issues, and track action items.
• Control and monitor the progress of projects, reporting to the Roadmap Manager and the Sponsorship Committee.
• Manage the project according to Euroclear internal standards (methodology & tools).
  
  

Technical Skills

• Experience in leading projects (minimum 10 years)
• Experience in testing domain
• Experience with the management of testing with external organisations such as T2S or Swift (including external stakeholders management)
• Experience in managing projects with external suppliers (including negotiation and contracts management with external suppliers with the support of specialized teams)
• Fluent in English
  
  

Soft Skills

• Strong leadership skills to adapt your style according to the situation and to the different partners
• Good business and/or technical understanding
• Interpersonal skills to influence decisions taken with the project sponsor/client
• Excellent communication skills (listening, writing and presenting) at all levels, from staff members to senior management
• Ability to learn quickly in a complex environment and to synthesize the situation
• Strong negotiation skills, conflict management and influencing skills at different levels of management
• Effective delegation of tasks and responsibilities while maintaining overall control
• Assertiveness to drive tasks to completion
  
  

Assets

• Certification in PRINCE 2 and/or PMI (or similar IT frameworks)
• Experience within the Euroclear environment
  
  

About Us

Why join us

Embark on your new adventure at Euroclear, and work at the heart of the global capital markets. We connect over 2,000 financial institutions across the globe. As an open and resilient infrastructure, we contribute to the stability of the financial markets. We help clients cut through complexity, lower costs, and mitigate risks of financial transactions. At Euroclear, we have the clear ambition to use our key role to facilitate and accelerate a sustainable global financial system.

What We Offer

• Work closely with inspiring, supportive and engaged colleagues from more than 80 different countries.
• Practice your talents in a highly professional international environment.
• Join a learning and development environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing and training.
• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.
  
  

New ways of working

Find your own optimal balance within our hybrid working model, where you can connect at the office and also benefit from remote working.

Great Place to Work for All

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates diversity and strives to be a Great Place to Work for All. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment, regardless of any aspect that makes them unique (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, disability, ...). If you need any specific accommodation due to disability or any other reason, you can let the recruiter know during your application process.

About The Team

The Group Business Solutions (GBS) division ensures the competitiveness of Euroclear by delivering reliable and sustainable IT solutions for the financial securities markets. Our technical teams deliver new IT solutions and improve existing applications for both our internal and external clients. We deploy changes into the production environment in a controlled and structured way that doesn't compromise production stability and we ensure applicative production support.