Manager, Project Management

What We’ll Bring:

The DS IT Delivery Owner will manage a team of PM/BA’s to ensure working practices in relation to the design, build and test of client solutions is carried out to a high standard.

Fostering a culture focused on continuous improvements and building quality and predictability in to our solutions, you will play a key role in the success of the department

What You’ll Bring:

• Experience in working on project deliveries
• Ability to define and articulate team and individual goals
• Ability to hire and develop staff
• Able to leverage talent through multiple sourcing options with specific skills in offshore development
• Ability to determine when and how to modify and re-set plans based on newly gained information; ability to iterate through options and set a revised course
• Proven ability to identify technology problems and effective solutions
• Proven experience ensuring compliance to business requirements
• Ability to manage portfolio of concurrent projects delivering business outcomes on-time & on-budget.
• Key skills include: capacity management, project planning, risk management, outcome focused execution etc.
• Good problem solving skills to identify root cause
• Ability to develop good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Higher education or equivalent business experience, preferably in IT, mathematics, business related discipline, or an equivalent educational and work experience, with typically up to 7+ years of project management experience.

What We’d Love to See:

• Experience of working within financial service industry or IT industry, within a team delivering software to clients
• In depth knowledge of credit bureau and data products
• Agile certification
• Project Management certification or studies
• Continuous Improvements certification such as Lean Six Sigma

Impact You’ll Make:

• Lead the definition of the DS IT US project management and delivery process.
• Define the Key performance indicators inside the delivery process.
• Accountable for in-region Decision Services initiatives ensuring efforts complete on time and on budget where efforts may include new products & features, platform enhancements, compliance changes, technology refresh and urgency in solving real time customer issues etc.
• Create and manage capacity planning, participates in decision making on work prioritization to facilitate the demand management process.

  Plan resource to support roadmap.

  E.g.

  Sys Build, Platform Build, etc.

• Champion a Continuous Improvement mindset; identify Key Performance Indicators to highlight inefficiencies and be able to demonstrate and quantify improvements
• Evaluate training and development needs of the PM/PO team
• Manage risks inside the Initiatives
• Oversee Solutions activity across initiatives, ensuring best practice and quality standards are adhered to
• Co-ordinate with Product Teams to be up to date with their roadmap
• Line managing a team of PM/BAs; striving for an engaged and motivated team
• Facilitate effective collaboration between internal TU Teams and the DS IT team.
• Drive efficiencies across the team, monitoring progress to increase predictability and early detection and mitigation of risks
• Resource allocation and forecasting to ensure projects are sufficiently resourced
• Working with PM/BAs to optimize budget expenditure on Solutions activity, working within defined budgets, deliverables and timeframes
• Support initiative activities when required by the team members in order to overcome stoppers.
• Work with Dev Lead, QA Lead and Solution Architect in order to improve the execution and improvement of any of the above activities.

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TransUnion’s Internal Job Title:

Manager I, Business Operations

TransUnion is a global information and insights company that makes trust possible between businesses and consumers, by ensuring that each consumer is reliably and safely represented in the marketplace.

We do this by having an accurate and comprehensive picture of each person.

This picture is grounded in our legacy as a credit reporting agency which enables us to tap into both credit and public record data; our data fusion methodology that helps us link, match and tap into the awesome combined power of that data; and our knowledgeable and passionate team, who stewards the information with expertise, and in accordance with local legislation around the world.

Because of our work, organizations can better understand consumers in order to make more informed decisions, and earn their trust through great, personalized experiences, and the proactive extension of the right opportunities, tools and offers.

In turn, consumers can be confident that their data identities will result in the opportunities they deserve.

We make trust possible, so businesses and consumers can transact with confidence and achieve great things.

We call this Information for Good®—it’s our purpose, and what drives us every day.