Director, IT Program/Team Manager (JRI-4676)
THE JAPAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE, LIMITED
Job Responsibilities
Job Requirements
- Lead, Mentor and manage a team of Project Managers within the respective applications, ensuring effective project execution and professional development of the team members.
- Establish and maintain program governance frameworks, ensuring clarity in roles, responsibilities, and decision-making processes.
- Oversee the execution of high-priority programs, monitoring progress, budgets, and risks to ensure successful outcomes.
- Identify and address interdependencies across projects, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
- Oversee respective team's IT budget management
- Collaborate with IT partners to identify and support technology-driven innovation initiatives.
- Work closely with stakeholders to facilitate MVP, including deployment, testing, and validation.
- Stay abreast of emerging technology trends and engaging vendors to assess the suitability of new solutions.
- Assist IT leadership in developing annual work and resource plans
- Continually manage stakeholders expectations through governance processes
- Deliver appropriate and effective executive level communication
- Provide status reporting to JRIS management regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies and communicating across leadership and relevant project stakeholders.
- Manage a portfolio of complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business
- Ensure the program is aligned to and supports strategic objectives
- Understand interdependencies between technology and business needs
- Monitor, track and control outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies, and critical path deliverables
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent, at least 15+ years of experience preferably with exposure in Banking and Finance industry and Technology environment, with at least 5 years in a leadership role
- Experience in system development work with prior experience in functional, technical specifications and system development
- Strong understanding and experience in software development cycle (Waterfall or Agile best practices)
- Highly effective communicating with non-technical stakeholders, proficient communicating with technical stakeholders
- Good problem solving, analytical, synthesis, system thinking and solutioning skills
- Strong negotiation skills and vendor project management skills
- Experience in vendor product management will be an added advantage
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is a plus
- A confident and self aware leader with a high degree of independence with analytical/ problem solving ability
- Able to clearly articulate complex matters and provide recommendations on best course of action to be taken
- Full end to end project management in a lead role
- Executive level communication skills with excellent written and verbal communication
- Ability to multitask and perform well under pressure
- Willing to face with unexpected changes in expectations or requirements
- Ability to work both unsupervised and in a team orientated environment, under pressure and manage deadlines
JOB SUMMARY
Director, IT Program/Team Manager (JRI-4676)
THE JAPAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE, LIMITED
Singapore
8 days ago
N/A
Full-time
Director, IT Program/Team Manager (JRI-4676)