Prudential's purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people's career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.
- Responsible for the delivery of the development, project leadership, quality and timely delivery of projects and deliverables.
- Responsible for ensuring that projects are properly planned, communicated, and progressed throughout the project lifecycle.
- Responsible for the effective management of project budgets and the control of project expenses.
- Combine skills in negotiations, administration, leadership, and technology to remove obstables and hindrances.
- Identify cross directorate and cross project dependencies, risks and activities and negotiating resolution to conflict.
- Responsible for ensuring that projects are properly planned, communicated, and progressed throughout the project lifecycle.
- Review business requirements and strategize methods to minimize delays and utilize resources.
Job Responsibilities
- Deliver projects and products using the appropriate agile project management methodology, learning & iterating frequently
- Lead the collaborative, dynamic planning process - prioritizing the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team
- Matrix-managing a multidisciplinary team and creating a collaborative, innovative and efficient working culture, and team performance.
- Provide support, supervise staff, and provide direction and mentorship in tech support and service delivery
- Ensure team(s) maintain focus on quality and continuous delivery.
- Work with the Product Owner to define the roadmap for any given product and translate this into user stories
- Ensure all products are built to an appropriate level of quality
- Defining, documenting, and coordinating requirements, scope, priorities, change management and estimations.
- Encouraging regular iteration on deliverables and key ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, demos, retros).
- Creating and presenting easy-to-follow reporting, including throughput, risks, issues and successes.
- Keeping projects on time and on budget
Job Requirements
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a Computing discipline or equivalent
- Over 7 years project management experience
- Over 7 years of experience working in a Technical Consultant
- Sound understanding of computer systems (hardware/software), networks, etc.
- Experience in analysis, implementation, and evaluation of IT systems and their specifications
- Experience in Team management and staff development
- Experience in vendor management
- Experience in running Agile (Scrum or Kanban)
- Experience of Team management and staff development
- Experience of financial control and budget management
- Experience of vendor management
- Excellent people development skills
Knowledge and skill
- Strong business-oriented spirit and delivery processing skills
- Strong communication and team player that have expert knowledge of Agile methodologies. Effective verbal and written communication skills (People, Customer)
- Strong analytical skills (Strategy, Financials)
- Strong leadership and decision-making skills (People)
- Require capability of presenting in English especially on technical and architectural topics
- Efficient in using Microsoft Office, MS Project, Jira
Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.
