Overview
We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee the delivery of a critical workstream within the OpenLink Endur v25 transformation program. This role involves collaboration with the Global Programme Manager, business stakeholders, technology teams, and external partners to ensure that project milestones, budgets, and quality standards are met. The ideal candidate will leverage their extensive project management experience and knowledge of commodities trading to successfully drive the workstream toward its objectives.
Responsibilities
- Take end-to-end ownership of assigned Endur v25 workstream(s), ensuring delivery against agreed scope, timelines, budget, and quality standards.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, resource plans, RAID logs, and delivery milestones.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams, including Business Analysts, Developers, Trainers, UAT, and Cutover resources.
- Monitor day-to-day progress, manage dependencies, and track activities and defects using JIRA.
- Provide regular delivery updates and progress reports to the Global Programme Manager.
- Lead workstream and cross-workstream governance meetings, proactively resolving blockers and dependencies.
- Act as the primary point of contact for business stakeholders across assigned workstreams.
- Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate delivery risks and issues.
Requirements
- Recent OpenLink Endur delivery experience is mandatory.
- 8–10+ years of project management experience, ideally in large-scale technology implementations.
- Proven experience leading workstream delivery within complex, multi-year, multi-region system upgrades or greenfield implementations.
- Strong understanding of the Front-to-Back trade lifecycle within a commodities trading environment.
- Experience managing stakeholders and vendors across Trading, Risk, Middle Office, Finance, and Technology functions.
- Excellent risk, issue, dependency, and change management skills.
- Recognised project management qualification, such as PMP, PRINCE2, or Agile/Scrum is desirable.
- Familiarity with AI productivity tools for reporting and program governance is an advantage.