Program Manager

10 years exp

**Roles & Responsibilities**

**Company Background - Partior Pte Ltd**

Acknowledging that the future of global payments is on the cusp of a fundamental shift, DBS, J.P. Morgan, and Temasek have developed an open industry platform to reimagine and accelerate value movements for payments, trade and foreign exchange settlement in a new digital era, through a newly established technology company, Partior.

Designed as a global shared ledger, Partior aims to disrupt the traditional cross-border payment by leveraging on blockchain technology to reduce current frictions and latency, minimizing post transaction exception handling and reconciliation activities.

Key distinguishing features are around privacy solution, complete decentralized hosting and consensus efficiency - providing a commercial scalability which enables it to be a platform of choice for hosting multiple CBDCs and commercial bank digital currencies.

To encourage broad participation across the banking industry, Partior will be actively engaging leading banks to join the platform to establish the scale required to benefit the industry. The platform will start with a focus on facilitating flows primarily between Singapore-based banks in both USD and SGD, with the intent to expand service offerings to other markets and in various currencies.

**Objectives of this Role**
- Oversee multiple project teams across business, technology and compliance ensuring program goals are reached.
- Lead prioritisation, budgeting and dependencies between projects within a strategic product program.
- Develop program assessment protocols for evaluation and improvement.
- Maintain organizational standards of satisfaction, quality, and performance.
**Daily and Monthly Responsibilities**
- Manage and lead program and project teams fand coordinate and delegate cross-project initiatives.
- Work closely with project sponsors, cross-functional teams and stakeholders, lead project managers to plan and develop scope, deliverables, required resources, work plan, budget, and timing for new initiatives.
- Identify key requirements needed from cross-functional teams and external stakeholders.
- Develop and manage budget for projects and be accountable for delivering against established business goals and objectives.
- Work to identify risks and opportunities across multiple projects within the department.
- Analyse, evaluate, and overcome program risks, and produce program reports for management and stakeholders.
**Required Skills and Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field.
- 5+ years in a program leadership role within wholesale payments domain.
- Exceptional leadership, time management, facilitation, and organisational skills.
**Preferable Individual qualities**
- Solution-driven: Practical and resourceful.
- Hands-on; willing and able to assist with ad-hoc requests from other teams.
- Has learning agility to keep abreast of latest technology and best practices
- Team player and works well in a team that values open communication

**Company Background - Partior Pte Ltd**

Acknowledging that the future of global payments is on the cusp of a fundamental shift, DBS, J.P. Morgan, and Temasek have developed an open industry platform to reimagine and accelerate value movements for payments, trade and foreign exchange settlement in a new digital era, through a newly established technology company, Partior.

Designed as a global shared ledger, Partior aims to disrupt the traditional cross-border payment by leveraging on blockchain technology to reduce current frictions and latency, minimizing post transaction exception handling and reconciliation activities.

Key distinguishing features are around privacy solution, complete decentralized hosting and consensus efficiency - providing a commercial scalability which enables it to be a platform of choice for hosting multiple CBDCs and commercial bank digital currencies.

To encourage broad participation across the banking industry, Partior will be actively engaging leading banks to join the platform to establish the scale required to benefit the industry. The platform will start with a focus on facilitating flows primarily between Singapore-based banks in both USD and SGD, with the intent to expand service offerings to other markets and in various currencies.