As an employee at Thomson Reuters, you will play a role in shaping and leading the global knowledge economy. Our technology drives global markets and helps professionals around the world make decisions that matter. Whether solving for today’s challenges or tomorrow’s aspirations, you will work with the industry’s brightest thinkers on diverse projects, creating next-generation solutions that deliver powerful results. As the world’s leading provider of intelligent information, we want your unique perspective to create the solutions that advance our business—and your career.
We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Project Manager that will define, scope, initiate and manage large departmental projects with moderate to high risk while supporting business and program management staff. Typical scope of the projects will be greater than 6 months, involve more than 10 FTEs which are cross functional and be a project that is critical to the company meeting its objectives.
About the Role
As a Senior Project Manager, you will:
Define, documents and executes projects of extreme high risk, complexity and visibility, actively participating in all phases of the project.
Identify, assess and manage risks to the success of the project.
Draft feasibility studies, risk assessments and statements of work.
May develop or assist in developing business cases for large projects with significant impact to company goals.
Be responsible for producing all typical project documentation – detailed project plans, work plans, schedules, project estimates, conversion schedules, resource plans and status reports.
Determine project methodology.
Define project scope and objectives.
Agree scope and constraint to enable costs, timescales and resource requirements for the successful completion of each project to be estimated.
Have responsibility to ensure project deliverables are demonstrably fit for purpose.
Gain commitments to ensure corrective actions are taken if costs, timescales or resources deviate from agreed tolerances.
Manage the change control procedure gaining agreement for revisions to the project from project stakeholders and ensure full impact of significant changes are understood by project stakeholders.
Ensure all parties are aware of project scope and milestones.
Highlight divergence from that scope, and adjusts it where necessary to reflect changing circumstances, acts a communication liaison.
About You
You’re a fit for the role of Senior Project Manager if you have:
Basic qualifications:
Bachelors or Associate’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent Certificates required.
From 5+ years of work experience as Project Manager in Software Implementation Projects.
From 2+ years of work experience with Agile Methodologies.
Working knowledge of Information Security, Engineering Best Practices and NIST Framework.
Working experience setting up and maintaining Agile implementation software or using Azure DevOps, or technologies like Rally.
Preferred qualifications:
Coaching and/or training teams on Agile Methodologies.
SCRUM Master Certificate
What’s in it For You
At Thomson Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:
Learning & Development:
Exposure to a wide breadth of leading-edge technology
Career growth – ability to work on multiple projects and/or with various teams
Professional growth and development opportunity through various training programs, conferences, networking events, in-house speaker series etc.
Access to Unconferences, Harvard Manage Mentor and more, we offer learning opportunities for everyone
Benefits/Perks:
Health benefits
Savings/investment plans
Paid time off (including time off to volunteer and extended parental leave)
Flexibility: We’ve been named as one of Forbes, Best Companies for Work/Life Balance
Global Opportunities: We have employees in over 90 countries, working across 3 different industries
Your wellbeing: We offer a program that focuses on making our lives healthier
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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 25,000 employees across more than 75 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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