Project Management Lead 12/09/2025

Job Description

What will youressential responsibilities include

- Understands the business and GT strategies and how the project portfolio fits in and contributes to the achievement of those strategies and associated goals. Communicates to the rest of the Project Management team so they have an understanding of the strategy and goals.
- Leadership and Guidance: Provide direction and support to a team of project managers, ensuring they understand their roles and objectives. Coach/mentor team members and guide them to be successful.
- Performance Management: Monitor the performance of project managers, providing feedback, conducting performance reviews, and identifying areas for professional development.
- Stakeholder Communication: Build and maintain lasting relationships with all business stakeholders. Facilitate communication between project managers and senior management, stakeholders, and clients to ensure alignment on project objectives and expectations.
- Risk Management: Identify potential risks and issues across projects, guiding project managers on mitigation strategies. Guides project managers on issue resolution and provide escalation framework via governance.
- Budget Oversight: Oversee project budgets and financial performance, ensuring projects are delivered within financial constraints.
- Conflict Resolution: Address and resolve conflicts within the team or between project teams, fostering a collaborative work environment.
- Resource Management: Manage the project manager resource pool including the allocation of resources to ensure the right resources are provided at the right time to support successful delivery. This includes working with vendors when additional staff is required to support a growing demand. Maintain a current view of people supply versus demand for the team, aligning this to the needs of the business.
- Collaboration: Partner with Peers to plan, solve problems and implement organizational change.
- Standards and Governance: Ensure utilization of recognized project management tools and techniques, processes and resources while adhering to AXA XL's approved methodology.
- Project Status: Provide accurate information on the status of projects portfolio for their projects.
- Project Management: Ensure PM deliverables are met across sprint project and application teams/squads within domain for each release.
- Participate in product design reviews ensuring quality practices are included in the SDLC. You will report to Head of Global Technology Project Management.

Required Skills and Abilities:

- Extensive program and project management experience.
- Experience leading and working with large, dynamic, virtual teams, across time zones and offshore with high resource utilization and productivity, including where teams are highly matrixed both in centralized and decentralized environments.
- Effective team management and leadership skills.
- Has excellent understanding of the business and uses it to affect change.
- Ability to manage business demand against current capacity.
- Extensive knowledge and experience with Project Management principles, best practices and methods.
- Excellent understanding of software development principles and methodologies.
- Planning and execution oriented with ability to provide creative solutions and analytical decision making.
- Must be able to assist project managers in project initiation efforts which including assisting with definition of high-level scope, estimating work effort and defining proper skillset to fulfill demand.
- Understands problems from all perspectives and analyze available options and constraints.
- Experience in budget management and financial planning.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent is required.

Desired Skills and Abilities:

- Familiarity with Project Management Tools, such as PPM, Office Suite, and Financial Tracking tools as well.
- Stakeholder management which includes updating on portfolio or projects in the portfolio, explaining risks and issues, and celebrating success.
- Ability to think and act both strategically and tactically.
- Excellent collaboration and conflict management skills.
- Proven planning and organization skills, creating own work schedules, prioritizing workload, preparing in advance and setting realistic timescales.
- Adaptable to new/different strategies, programs, technologies, practices, cultures, etc. Comfortable with change, able to easily make transitions.
- Ability to present information in an influential manner to senior leadership and all business stakeholders.

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