Senior Project Manager

The Senior Fixed Income Project Manager will play a pivotal role in a large-scale, strategic transformation program to remodel and enhance our Fixed Income capabilities to maintain current capabilities and support new business growth. Working alongside seasoned investors and transformation & technology professionals, the individual will be part of a focused team to define and deliver enhanced and new capabilities to provide a cohesive future state operating model.

The role requires a detailed understanding of fixed income in an asset management firm, and proven experience in defining and delivering business processes and technology solutions in partnership with professionals across the front office. The successful candidate will also need excellent presentation skills to communicate effectively and succinctly to senior stakeholders, be detail oriented, very hands on and have experience of leading activities such as workshops whilst working collaboratively with a broad range of key business staff.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively, with business and technology teams and stakeholders, to define project outcomes, create and manage project roadmaps and plans along with other detailed project artefacts, and drive execution
• Actively build subject matter expertise across T. Rowe Price's fixed income functions and systems to positively influence outcomes
• Lead collaborative partnerships and dialog with related business units beyond Fixed Income, building excellent working relationships with teams as required
• Lead and facilitate detailed discussions and meetings, ensuring they are task oriented and objective driven to ensure the efficient use of participants' time
• Actively promote alignment and compliance with overlapping strategic programs and projects across data, order management and accounting
• Produce clear, concise and accurate presentation materials for use in various forums, with detail appropriate to the audience
• Continually update the Program Managers, Program Director and business stakeholders of progress, and raise issues as soon as encountered.
• Ensure proposed solutions are practical and meet the success parameters and business objectives
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and dependencies

Demonstrated Competencies:

• Involves the key players in identifying operating needs, issues and solutions. Proposes plans that are aligned with business objectives and requirements.  Takes and leads actions to enhance business function standards and performance with the participation of business and technical partners.
• Establishes and maintains networks and alliances. Shares information readily and determines who to go to for relevant information. Seeks assistance and feedback in the problem-solving process. Partners with others to achieve expectations.
• Participates in change programs by planning implementation activities with other change champions. Interprets the meaning of new strategic directions for the work group and sets objectives and standards. Implements monitoring and feedback systems. Evaluates progress and finds ways of making continuous improvements. Solicits and offers ideas for improving primary business processes. Improves effectiveness and efficiency through the involvement of peers and business partners by initiating new approaches.
• Communicates effectively with colleagues and peer groups in ways which support problem solving aligned with the firm's strategic pillars. Seeks a consensus with business partners. Debates opinions, tests understanding and clarifies judgments. Brings conflict into the open empathetically. Explains the context of multiple inter-related situations, asks searching, probing questions, and solicits expert advice prior to taking action and making recommendations.
• Understands and seeks ways to improve the quality and results of their own work and that the quality meets expectations. Provides input at strategic planning meetings so that they produce expected outcomes.
• Takes steps to identify and improve processes within own functional area.  May escalate process improvement recommendations to appropriate management team for consideration. Participates on process improvement teams as subject matter expert for assigned areas of responsibilities.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of current practices in pursuit of improved performance.  Seeks opportunities and takes action to enhance personal and functional performance and meet consistently more challenging expectations.
• Identifies potential areas of conflicting priorities and vulnerability in achieving standards. Maintains a proactive work review and approval process prior to assignment completion. Solicits internal and external customer evaluation of performance and devises measures for improvement.
• Understands and seeks ways to improve the quality and results of one's work. Ensures that team roles and responsibilities are defined and clearly communicated, and that the quality of the work efforts is meeting expectations. Procures resources (people, funding, material, support) to ensure that the unit's work is produced in a prompt, quality manner. Provides input for strategic planning meetings so that they produce expected outcomes. Plans for allocation of resources in line with unit goals. Creates and implements a strategy for supporting current and future business needs.
• Is well organized, self-motivated, proactive and curious to learn.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES / SKILLS / QUALIFICATIONS:

Required:

• 10+ years Asset Management experience.
• 5+ years proven Front Office Investment Management Fixed Income experience as a FI SME, successfully delivering projects.
• Detailed working knowledge of fixed income instruments and derivatives, including pricing, analytics, trading and uses in portfolio management.
• Proven experience of working directly with investors in the asset management industry.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and being able to work with people across multiple locations.
• Experience of facilitating meetings with stakeholders to gather information, review and present findings and solve key issues.
• Well organized and self-motivated
• Ability to work well with people with varying technical, business and cultural backgrounds.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
• Very good experience with Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint
• Ability to translate and simplify complex business and technical concepts.
• Preparing and running detailed workshops.
• Comfortable working with executive management
• Ability to manage multiple medium and large projects.
• Effective at delivering high quality output under time constraints.

Preferred:

• Proven Project Management experience.
• Experience of leading a team of business analysts, oversee the creation of business requirements documents and other detailed documentation in a major front office strategic program.
• Experience managing and presenting to senior sponsors.
• Excellent Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and SharePoint skills.
• Excellent presentation skills, written and verbal.
• Soft skills to navigate a complex global working environment.
• A university degree.
• A project management and/or business analysis qualification (CBAP, BCS, PMP, Prince II, etc.)