Contract Project Manager jobs in United Kingdom

The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure.

Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.

Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions.

The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world’s leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform.

The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,300 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.

This role sits within the Rates Delivery team and is part of TP ICAP Technology. It is a key role in our ability to provide valuable on-target implementations of business requirements to our global customer base. As Associate Project Manager, you will assist TP ICAP's delivery pipeline and support teams of employees and vendors in their effort to deliver. You are expected to work closely with peers and team leads on dependency management and removal of impediments to optimise team efficiency and throughput.

• Planning and coordination – assist planning, estimation and coordination of the team’s technical roadmap and its execution.

• Team collaboration – act as bridge between Rates Delivery Lead and team members, facilitating communication and addressing challenges.

• Communication – maintain realistic delivery roadmaps and ensure regular and accurate communication to stakeholders.

• Risk management - identify, assess and manage risks to the success of the project.

• Change control - manage change control and ensure that schedule-impacting or cost-impacting changes are surfaced to stakeholders and approved / signed off.

• Scrum Master role - serve as Scrum Master in the delivery team.

• Cross-functional coordination - provide coordination between cross functional departments included but not limited to Technology.

• Adaptability - quickly learn the processes, systems and products of TP ICAP.

• Stakeholder engagement - work with business stakeholders (sponsors, business managers, broking staff and delivery teams) to deliver technology change.

Essential

• Experience working as Project Manager or similar role in a financial services organisation.

• Understanding of agile and lean principles.

• Experience using JIRA to track and report on team performance metrics to ensure continuous improvement and accountability.

• An understanding of derivatives and trading platforms.

• Direct experience of managing remote teams, augmented teams and vendor teams.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Desired

• Able to forecast team capacity considering vacations, planned sick leaves, availability, holidays, etc and makes it available for sprint/increment/release planning.

• Experience working across global teams in multiple time zones.

• Facilitate and coordinate Program Increment (PI) planning sessions to align teams on objectives, ensure effective collaboration, and drive successful execution of the Agile Release Train's goals.

• Identifies dependencies with input from teams, communicates them in the appropriate format, and actively manages dependencies (internal or external) within teams to minimise waste.

• Ensures that requirements/backlog items are prioritised, and schedule is derived from business priorities, so the most value-adding features/epics/specs are scheduled first in the delivery pipeline.

• Good team player with positive attitude.

• Demonstrates high standards of professional behaviour in dealings with clients, colleagues and staff.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

• Professional / 5

Location

UK - 135 Bishopsgate - London