Senior Project Manager

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our team. The Senior Project Manager will define, scope, initiate and manage large departmental projects with moderate to high risk while supporting business and program management staff.

About The Role

In this role as a Senior Project Manager, you will:

• Provide hands on project management for large projects and programs to ensure successful delivery within time, budget and scope.
• Lead multiple concurrent medium/large projects or one large program.
• Consistently manage multiple cross functional teams of senior professionals to achieve strategic objectives through flawless execution of day-to-day operations while simultaneously planning for future opportunities and challenges.
• Apply thorough knowledge of business processes, procedures and systems to develop creative solutions to complex problems.
• Work effectively in a matrix environment, partnering with internal clients, subcontractors and vendors.
• Maintain appropriate professional image at all times.
• Develop relationships internally and externally and act as a role model for ethical behavior.
• Understands how their team interacts with others in accomplishing the objectives of the area.
• Ensures their team makes effective use of resources including people, equipment, materials and information technology.
  
  

About You

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

• Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum 10+ years’ experience in a project management role.
• The role requires the candidate to work in 12 pm - 9 pm IST and also to be flexible.
• Expertise includes but not limited to waterfall project management methodologies, agile practices, change management processes, risk assessment frameworks, resource allocation strategies, project scope development tools, financial management techniques, quality control measures, and team building exercises.
• Implements medium to long term plans by establishing specific goals and timelines; monitors progress towards achievement of those goals.
• Experience working with virtual / remote teams would be ideal.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) are essential together with strong interpersonal skills and ability to work across functions.
• Highly developed analytical and problem-solving skills are required along with excellent attention to detail.
• A self-starter who has the initiative to plan, organize and prioritize activities throughout the life cycle of the project.
• Ability to manage resource allocation, budgeting and scheduling.
• Ability to maintain consistent levels of enthusiasm, energy and focus during periods of change and uncertainty.
• Highly organized individual capable of multi-tasking without compromising quality.
• PMP or similar project management certification would be good to have.
• Experience working with Agile Methodology preferred.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
  
  

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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