Lead Project Manager

Crédit Agricole Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international bank in Singapore seeks a Senior Lead Project Manager to oversee the Project Management team and drive complex IT programs. The role involves managing project teams, ensuring successful project delivery, and engaging with various stakeholders. Candidates should have proven project management experience and strong leadership capabilities. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic, multicultural environment focused on achieving strategic objectives.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in project management with a focus on large-scale IT projects.
• Strong leadership skills to manage multiple project teams effectively.
• Ability to liaise with various stakeholders across an international environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage CIB IT projects and collaborate with leadership across departments.
• Direct the work of project managers and provide oversight for multiple projects.
• Communicate project changes and obtain necessary approvals from sponsors.

Job description

Position

In a challenging and multicultural environment, we seek a senior lead project manager to manage the Project management (PM) team and to drive the complex programs/projects, part of the control tower section.

Mission: by mobilizing and managing project teams and contributors, you will conduct projects from inception to completion, to reach the project goals in terms of quality, planning and budget.

Within an international environment, you will have to liaise with all kind of stakeholders and align your resources to the target set together with the business in order to meet the bank objectives.

Main responsibilities

• Manage the list of CIB IT projects, collaborating with leadership across the departments and prioritize projects based on the business need.
• Direct the work of Project managers and provides managerial oversight for multiple projects
• Act as point of escalation for the Project management team.
• Create and develop a governance structure for efficient stakeholder management
• Promote the project management service
• Develops organizational project management capabilities through training, coaching, and individual meetings/discussions
• Develop strategy for control and governance structures to ensure desired outcomes across the projects
• Monitor and analyse project metrics and to propose improvements and cost savings for future projects
• Ensure successful delivery of all projects against cost, time, scope, quality and security measures
• Operate autonomously and handle large scale APAC/EMEA regional IT projects by understanding local regulations.
• Clarify the needs of the client and translate them into rigorous requirement lists
• Identify standard and project specific deliverables, key assumptions, follow and mitigate risks and issues
• Anticipate early in the project any compliance / regulatory requirement and start informing stakeholders of such risk and measure their impact
• Define, measure and report project KPI with right level of information
• Identify right resource within teams and constitute / coordinate project team members
• Report or escape any important risk and issues to Sponsor and local management for appropriate action
• Create, review or adapt when necessary existing processes to make them more relevant, efficient and optimal
• Communicate to Sponsor any change with right level of information and manage to get his approval
• Follow, report budget actual/forecast to project stakeholders and local management
• Set relevant control in place to ensure that what has been delivered meets requirements validated
• Manage and document the project hand over with production teams
• Continuously improve project management toolkits