Senior Project Manager

The role will build strong customer relationships with key individuals and teams across Elite and our client. The Senior Project Manager is accountable for definition and execution of projects that deliver specific and agreed business benefits and will provide leadership throughout the project life-cycle to the project team. They will ensure that team members are motivated, develop their skills and experience and are effective as a team.

**About the Role**
- Defines, documents and delivers projects within business engagement, content and client support group
- Actively participates in all phases of the project. Identifies, assesses and manages risks to the success of the project.
- Champions the Elite Project Quality Methodology to ensure there is an effective, representative and accurate business steer for the active elements of the project (i.e. ensuring project governance is put in place to support delivery of the strategy).
- Ensures the communication channels and processes are in place to notify the relevant people so that plans can be amended, and the necessary action taken.
- Provides thought leadership on appropriateness of tools and process to project goals.
- Modifies personal approach and style to reflect changing circumstance.
- Plan and manage project activity to maximize commercial return for the company, ensuring a focus on minimizing lost and non-billable time.
- Ensure any change orders arising are discussed well in advance to ensure the customer’s expectations are managed effectively, and that the Sales account manager is engaged.

Additional Information:

- Periodic weekend work required
- 80% Travel commitment, on average.

**About You**
- Solid knowledge, understanding and experience of a business operations environment
- Extensive demonstrable experience of delivery large scale projects through the full project lifecycle
- Experience across the full software development lifecycle, preferably gained by having undertaken a multitude of project roles over their career.
- Ability to work in an environment of change and uncertainty with sound judgment under pressure
- Ability to manage a high volume of work and diverse range of projects and activities
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Strong influencing and negotiating skills
- Experience of managing small group of project managers, mentoring, performance management

**What’s in it For You?**

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

- ** Hybrid Work Model**: Currently the majority of our employees are working within a hybrid environment consisting of in-office and remote work, and following local COVID-19 bylaws and guidelines.
- ** Culture**: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more
- ** Wellbeing**: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: company-wide Mental Health Day Off; Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
- ** Learning & Development**: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking
- ** Social Impact**: Eight employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact
- ** Purpose Driven Work**: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should - we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

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