Project Manager London, England
Mastercard
Full Time
London, England
70000 - 103012 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Our Purpose
We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a
culture of inclusion
for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Job Title
Project Manager
OverviewThe Cross-Border Programme Delivery Office are fundamental to achieving Mastercard’s strategic ambitions to expand in the payments space. We are seeking a Project Manager to work on one or more Cross-Border projects simultaneously, whilst embracing an Agile environment, demonstrating a flexible, can-do attitude within a freshly empowered and motivated community.
Role
Project Management responsibilities on any project:
- Manage the overall cross-functional coordination, status reporting, financials, schedules and stability of project-oriented work efforts, ensuring that project goals and objectives are met within agreed time, scope and resource requirements as identified at the outset of the project.
- Develops detailed project plans and manages all implementation processes within budget and resource constraints
- The Project Manager will seek to maximise internal client satisfaction and where appropriate aim to protect and maximise revenue streams or cost efficiencies associated with a project in line with stakeholder expectations
- May manage smaller project/initiatives as an experienced individual contributor with specialized knowledge within the assigned discipline
- Ensures methodology compliance, resolving issues (escalating if necessary), communicating with project staff, and monitoring budget and potential risks
- Will regularly communicate to management the status of specific project deliverables, and interact with clients (internal or external) as required
- Provides input into new products, processes, standards or plans in support of the business
- Responsible for planning, developing, and executing project, escalating to the senior Delivery team or stakeholders as appropriate
- Effectively deal with and develop solutions to moderately difficult problems
- Provide coordination of initiatives and projects in partnership with business accountable leads
- Liaise with external third party suppliers, internal customers and stakeholders
- Have a basic understanding of any pertinent contract related to the project assigned and a broad understanding of any contractual or regulatory commitments that must be met
- Minimise any commercial or reputational risk on projects as directed by the product owner
The Project Manager must:
- Have experience working in cross-functional environments and on small to medium projects
- Have experience in an Agile or SDLC working environment
- Be a self-starter and a driver for process & continuous improvement within the team
- Have a strong commercial focus on activities that contribute to the performance of Mastercard providing measurable value to the business
- Accurately estimate and provide input into the forecast budget and resource demand as required
- Have a broad understanding of all contractual obligations and constraints
- Have experience of interacting with 3rd party suppliers and vendors
- Strong understanding of risk management
- Strong stakeholder management skills are essential
The Project Manager must consistently demonstrate the following key “essential” competencies:
- Focus on delivery with a "get it done" attitude
- Customer focus
- Self confidence
- Initiative and problem solving
- Teamwork and coaching
- Influencing and communication skills
- Stakeholder management skills
- Planning, Estimating and task management
- Financial control and budget management
- Leading with vision
- Flexibility
- Knowledge of the software development lifecycle, both waterfall and agile
- Knowledge of the Payments Industry and Financial Services an advantage
- Business case and benefits realisation
- Knowledge / experience of infrastructure project delivery a plus
- Process improvement / IT transformation / Operating Model experience
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
- Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
- Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
