Project Manager- Digital Transformation - Energetic Workplace

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Project Manager

In this role, you will: 

Value Creation:

• Plans effectively around delivery constraints and optimizes the plan to maximize benefits and minimize risk. Ensures the baselined scope, requirements, benefits, schedule, and budget are managed as outlined in Business Transformation Frameworks
• Proactively monitors project execution to effectively identify risks/issues/dependencies as they arise throughout the project lifecycle.
• Collaborates and builds positive stakeholder relationships providing regular updates, obtains buy-in from the project sponsor, Steering Committee and other stakeholders for all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements.
• Analyses management reports, and derives insights from it to drive the right business decisions
• Manages Change Adoption to ensure the change lands well and sticks, contributing to benefits realization as expected from the project(s) assigned. 

Operational Performance:

• Produce a well-defined project plan, identifying the key milestones and assigning responsibilities / resources in line with Global Transformation Project Management Framework.
• Provides timely reports on project status, risks and issues, evaluating project performance based on management information using standardized metrics and templates in Clarity.
• Maintains project change control, ensuring any changes to baseline are managed through change request and all impacts are considered
• Promotes and takes accountability for project quality; identifies opportunities to improve delivery and oversees the governance process to reduce risk and ensure effective and timely decisions are taken
• Ability to manage and execute the projects assigned in an agile and flexible approach to ensure the best quality from a project execution perspective

Capability and People Development:

• Identifies and shares the resource requirements of the project to the Program Manager, requesting the appropriate skill set and/or experience
• Defines high level responsibilities and objectives for members of their project team and ensure the individuals are being used in accordance with their skills and resource request
• Acts as a role model to create and maintain a collaborative team environment which supports and encourages the professionalism and development of our teams

Requirements:

Knowledge

• Understanding of the project lifecycle
• Business Transformation Frameworks and best practice techniques
• Agile / scrum methodologies of project delivery
• Understanding of key activities for Change Adoption
• Knowledge of project management tools such as Clarity/ JIRA/ MS Project
• Understanding of banking / HSBC and understanding of how change drives benefits for HSBC, its customers, and other stakeholders
• Domain knowledge on any of the following: Retail Banking, Commercial Banking, Risk, Compliance, Payments & understanding of the purpose, value, culture, and fundamentals of Global Transformation.
• Candidates who are fluent (reading, writing, speaking) in Mandarin and Cantonese are preferred because the role requires candidates to interact with Mandarin-Cantonese speaking clients.