JPMorgan Project Management Office Lead 

United Kingdom, England, London 

362370529

Job Responsibilities

This is a role for a senior PMO lead who wants to be part of flat-structure organisation and support the delivery of a green-field initiative. In this role you will be

• Design, implement and manage organisational project and operational processes and best practices for all teams in the organisation
• Take accountability for owning and operating project management processes
• Set and promoting delivery rigour and discipline in a rapidly scaling team within a new venture, from an early stage of formative growth
• Be responsible for owning and developing the program roadmap and maintaining consistency of approach and a clear governance framework
• Be responsible for programme reporting, identifying and resolving program level risks and blockers
• Communicate to a wide range of senior stakeholders, including product, technology, servicing, operations, controls and 2LoD, aligning them to the delivery roadmap
• Facilitate organisational ceremonies (including but not limited to planning, all hands, demos and knowledge sharing sessions)
• Coordinate organisational business updates, working groups, setting agenda, collating materials, issuing minutes and action items
• Act as a trusted advisor to the Product, Technology & Domain Leads to deliver business and customer value

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Strong track record in project/program management capacity, including experience of working with product teams (product, engineers and designers) and successfully delivering digital products in complex environments
• Experience and passion in building great teams
• Experiences practitioner of agile and lean practices drawing on experience of established frameworks and able to adapt them to meet program needs
• Experience in communicating and managing senior level stakeholders. Able to shape your message to suit your audience’s needs using excellent communication, negotiation and facilitation skills.
• Strong analytical capabilities and attention to detail; ability of synthesise and summarise complex data to drive decision making
• Strong knowledge and experience with using JIRA, Confluence and Github

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• A desire to solve hard problems
• A desire to teach and learn from others and share knowledge.
• Comfortable in uncharted waters. We are building something new. Things change quickly. We need you to learn new domains and approaches quickly and be comfortable in dealing with uncertainty
• High standards. We are looking for people who expect personal performance and team performance to be nothing short of the best.
• Clarity of thought. We operate quickly and efficiently, and we value people who are economical with their time and clear with their opinions. This is critical also because this role will define principles that guide the work of others.
• Experience of working with financial / fintech organisation strongly beneficial
• Experience of supporting regulatory application processes or dealing with regulatory requests strongly beneficial