Agile Product Manager - Global F/S
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Job Description
Role: Agile Product Manager
Duration: 6 months
The Agile Product Manager is a vital member of the global transformation business. Sitting within the Finance Transformation Office’s PMO Office, the Agile Product Manager will work to transform the organisation. You will be responsible for achieving the target improvement for a program of the transformation. They will have a strategic solution mindset and will be able to develop the vision of the Product and solution managers they lead.
They will support the PMO office which manages and coordinates work across key pillars of the transformation program including culture, risk and controls, architecture and technology, data, and communication. They love to challenge the status quo and are eager to propose creative solutions to problems.
Responsibilities:
- Lead a cross functional agile team to develop and lead the strategy to deliver end-to-end process improvement for a program in the finance transformation function.
- Working with teams and stakeholders to define metrics to determine implement and measure success metrics throughout and at each stage of the process.
- Manage the program end to end, including all the processes embedded within it
- Work with the individual Product Owners of each team within the program, Process or Agile release train to achieve the target outcome.
- Planning and running Program Increments
- Setting OKRs or similar goal frameworks to inspire your team and hold yourself and your team to account.
- Ensure close collaboration with stakeholders: managing them in terms of expectations, dependencies and buy-in
- Update and Prioritize program / project backlogs in collaboration with other Product Owners
- Collaborate with other product owners and central product owners of the area and beyond
- Partner with business leaders to understand their unique businesses and processes and how they can be streamlined in a way that enhances controls, creates efficiencies, and drives business growth
- Lead strategic initiatives, analyses, and projects
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience as an Agile Product or Solution Manager
- Experience leading a team of teams.
- Be analytical minded and strategic solutions oriented
- Incident management skills
- Collaborate with people and be able to motivate, empower, challenge and stimulate them
- Strong communications (written, verbal and interpersonal) skills
- Experience in supporting transformation projects and organizational change initiatives.
- Experience within the Financial Services or another regulated industry is preferred.
- Experience in supporting the development and implementation of new business processes
- Ability to support a cross-functional project team with varied disciplines.
- Excellent organizational and project management skills