Project Manager

LSEG and Microsoft have entered an exciting strategic partnership for the development of next-generation data, analytics and cloud infrastructure solutions. Our customers' needs are evolving and so are financial markets. This partnership will transform the way customers discover, analyse and trade securities around the world. It will also advance our cloud strategy and build the improved resilience, efficiency and agility that our customers expect. Microsoft customers will also have access to our data and analytics capabilities through a single flexible infrastructure that is intuitive and responsive. If you are interested in joining this dynamic strategic partnership, we look forward to considering your skills and experience.

This role is designed to support the customer migration planning and milestone tracking, ensuring all customers are safely migrated to the cloud without issue. The role will be responsible for the maintaining the central schedule of customer related activities, ensuring clear line of sight back into the programme.  This involves mobilisation of an entire workforce, challenging current methods of working, defining a clear approach to migration and ensuring all change is delivered safely across a complex backdrop.  This transformational change positions our products for the future and unlocks exciting opportunities to enhance our product led strategy to continue to deliver for our clients.

What you'll be doing:

• Handling customer migration and programme dependencies
• Maintaining oversight of customer migration schedules across applications, ensuring technology requirements and communication are produced
• Tracking progress and alignment to overall programme plan
• Collaborating with Migration Planning and Migration Execution to ensure parity across the migration process
• Running aspects of the programme that involve multiple senior internal and external sponsors within the Microsoft Partnership
• Leading the development of project artifacts, coordinated plans, resource and contingency plans, ensuring they are prioritised and detailed and that risk management processes are adopted
• Anticipating issues and delays, evaluating impacts against application/business requirements, complexity, cost, risk etc. whilst effectively assessing and resolving high-priority project risks
• Leading multiple workstreams and large project teams throughout the project lifecycle delivering results that meet the success parameters agreed in the business case
• Handle delivery quality and performance across the Partnership, ensuring services are introduced safely
• Managing the project budget request process and performs regular financial reviews, tracking and measuring financial performance and data against plan and validating financial forecasts

Skills you'll bring:

• Project Management methodologies: Handle project resources and activities
• Navigating the business: Utilise knowledge of practices and approaches for handling and navigating the organisation to support project/programme objectives
• Change management: Use a systematic approach to deal with change, transition or transformation
• Industry knowledge: Demonstrate a depth of hands-on knowledge of the industry and domains
• Communication: Connect with clarity and precision, presenting technical information in a concise format that is audience appropriate
• Problem Solving: Define a problem, generate solutions, and evaluate and identify the best solution to overcome the problem
• Process improvement: Seeks new ways of working continuously to make processes run smoother and faster
• Relationship building: Interact well with others, quickly establishing rapport building positive relationships and networks
• Partner management: Build trusting relationships with internal and external partners to understand drivers and navigate to positive outcomes
• Third party management: Be a great partner with external third parties
• Project planning & delivery: Demonstrate the structure of planning, organising and leading resources and activities to achieve outcomes within a clearly defined timeframe and standards
• Flexible ways of working: Understand different approaches to project management (e.g. Agile, Waterfall etc.) and ensure flexibility to deliver

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

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You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

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