Program Manager

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Program Manager who will be responsible for delivering medium to high complexity projects or sub-projects within agreed timelines, budget, margins, quality specifications and client expectations. You will also ensure project delivery methods are appropriate for the size, nature and complexity of each project. In addition, you will be responsible for building and maintaining effective working relationships with all stakeholders. To be successful in this role you will need to have strong communication and interpersonal skills as well as the ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail.

About The Role

In this role as a Program Manager, you will:

• Deliver against medium to high complexity projects/sub-projects ensuring they are delivered on time, to budget, quality and to client expectation.
• Manage the successful delivery of projects by motivating and guiding the project team(s), communicating effectively with all stakeholders, monitoring progress and taking appropriate action where necessary.
• Ensure project delivery methods are appropriate for the size, nature and complexity of each project.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with all stakeholders.
• Monitor progress of projects and take appropriate action where necessary.
• Report on key performance indicators and operational metrics relating to program delivery.
• Proactively communicate and escalate risks and issues that affect program delivery.
• Work closely with peers and senior colleagues to exchange information, coordinate activities across the department and organization, and build partnerships and alliances.
• Provide guidance and training to more junior colleagues.
  
  

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Program Manager if your background includes:

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred.
• 10+ years’ experience managing complex business and technology programs.
• The role requires the candidate to work in 12 pm - 9 pm IST and also to be flexible.
• Experience leading Agile / Scrum methodology.
• Excellent understanding of project management governance and best practices.
• Excellent understanding of industry trends, standards and regulatory requirements.
• Strong understanding of financial management principles.
• Ability to influence and engage at all levels of the organization.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to create presentations suitable for technical, business and executive audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Highly flexible approach.
• Excellent people leadership and team management skills.
• Demonstrated thought leadership.
  
  

What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
  
  

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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