Senior Project Manager

Company Description

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 6000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Job Description

The Project Manager is the key to ensuring the success of our Projects. IT@IFS Project Management spans from large implementations of new technologies and capabilities, company integrations, upgrades, or continuous improvement projects.

The Senior Principal Project Manager is responsible for leading, managing, and steering projects of strategic importance to IFS. Senior Principal Project Managers are valued highly within the IT IFS community due to their complete integrity and vast complex project and programme management experience. The Senior Project Manager works in the IFS IT Organization and works closely with our business sponsors, and acts as ambassadors for the IFS Core Values and Principles. The Senior Project Manager has a proven track record of contributing to the development of a best-in-class Project Management practice knowing how to adapt delivery for each project. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Engage continuously with our Business to ensure we are meeting their needs with our delivery.

• Fully own End to End Project Delivery ensuring value creation realised.

• Managing risks, issues, timelines and ensuring full transparency of status at all times. 

• Act as an escalation point for sponsors and key stakeholders concerning project delivery.

• Provide input to IT@IFS delivery approach and contribute to continuous improvement of Methodology, Tools, and Processes within the IT organization, critically assessing the impact it could have on value to our business.

• Act as a trusted partner to our Business Partners in IT, our business sponsors, our platform owners and product owners.

• Embody the IFS Core Values and champion the IFS strategy within the IT organization, and proactively influence other business functionals within IFS

Qualifications

Required Competence:

A Senior Project Manager would be expected to have an excellent understanding of the following areas:

• Software systems, ERP and the IFS Portfolio.

• Project Management Principles in differing methodologies (i.e. agile, waterfall, hybrid).

• Presentation Skills. 

• Project Management Skills with experience managing more than 3 end to end lifecycles of complex platform delivery.

• Process adherence and quality assurance.

• Internal business processes, workflows, and operational considerations. 

• Internal and external negotiation and influencing skills.

Qualifications: 

To be successful you will have: 

Essential: 

• 7+ years of experience in Project Management or PMO.
• Hands-on experience in structured delivery methodologies in SaaS platforms, integrations and Infrastructure projects.
• Hands-on experience in Agile and Waterfall Methodologies.

• Extensive experience of leading small to mid-size projects in corporate solutions and complex infrastructure.

• Bachelor's degree or professional equivalent training and qualification. 

• Experience in working with all levels of the organisation with exposure to C-Level.

• Proven thought leadership and critical thinking through Delivery Lifecycle being a valuable contributor. 

• Excellent communication skills. 

• Fluency in English (verbal and written).

Desirable: 

• Experience of IT M&A Integration project execution – Systems, Infrastructure, User Management.

• Experience in applying IT Delivery Methodologies and project management tooling. 

• Constructive input given cross functions in IT.

Additional Information

We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.