PM Practice Manager

Experience and skills:

• 4+ years of Discipline Management/Team Lead experience.
• 8+ years of Discipline experience.
• Proven track record of leading teams, and experience in implementing a range of disciplines in a Waterfall and/or agile environment.
• Good all-round IT Practice background from preferably a number of industries / domains.
• Excellent knowledge (ideally hands-on) of discipline tooling
• Experience in developing metrics to access performance of the team.
• Experience coaching mentoring and hiring industry professionals.
• Experience in running workshop exercises with globally dispersed teams.
• Discipline Certification
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and coordinate with globally dispersed technical and non-technical teams.
• Very strong organisational and stakeholder management skills with ability to negotiate at all levels.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills and ability to build strong working relationships at senior management level.
• Ability to act on own initiative with a can-do attitude.
• Ability to work in a quickly changing environment, being very flexible as tasks and responsibilities may change.
• Drives continuous process improvement.
• Fluent in English speaking and written skills.

Nice to have:

• Experience in IT in a Financial Services organization.
• Experience in Funds Industry
• Understanding of W365/Azure infrastructure, including Application Layering.
• Experience of using Azure Devops project management tool