The Programme Manager’s role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams, managing project timelines, budgets, compiling detailed reports, analyzing project metrics, and ensuring the efficient development and deployment of global technology products.
This role is critical for ensuring effective communication, accurate reporting, and data-driven decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Support GTPH for product strategy build and aligning with key stakeholders.
- Business planning and budgeting to realize GTP strategy.
- Support GTPH and GTP Team in executing the strategy.
- Drive GTP level strategic initiatives
- Analyse and appraise project delivery methods, costs, and results.
- Coordinate product activities, ensuring alignment with product goals, timelines, and strategic business requirements.
- Coordinate stand-ups and preparation of decks through stakeholder collaboration and information consolidation including prioritization of risks and issues identified.
- Summarize product updates, progress, and key milestones in a visually appealing manner.
- Collaborate with group functional pillar heads, group business pillar heads, LBUs and other stakeholders to drive project success.
- Manage day-to-day portfolio activities and establish working plan for each project phase.
- Escalate issues that threaten portfolio and project success.
- GTP Performance management
- Define product level and project level key performance metrics and implement them.
- Use data visualization tools (such as PowerBi) to present metrics in an understandable format.
- Provide insights and recommendations based on metric analysis.
- Create executive summaries and detailed reports for various audience levels.
- GTP Governance and reporting
- Administrate preparation and follow-up of Global Technology Product Committee and other key governance meeting/report.
- Develop and design high-quality presentations using PowerPoint for stakeholder meetings.
- Ensure alignment of communication materials with product goals.
- Compile and analyze product data to generate regular status reports.
- To handle any ad hoc GTPO issues
Experience and Qualification
- Experience Level: Proven experience of 12+ years as a Management Consultant in Technology / Digital transformation Strategy with leading Consulting firms. Experience in Insurance industry and Financial Services.
- Specific Skills: Expertise in project management, understanding of IT initiatives including of emerging Technology like AI, and Cloud. Collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture and IT / Digital Target operating model
- Personal Attributes: Strong leadership skills, excellent communication, and interpersonal abilities, effective problem-solving skills.
- Personal integrity and an ability to maintain confidentiality of business information.
- Education Level: Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science or related field
- Postgraduate academic degree (MBA preferred)
Technologies and Tools
- Proficiency with Demand Planning, Resource Management and Project tracking tools like JIRA, Confluence etc.
- Excellent skills in MS Office tools, especially PowerPoint, Excel, and PowerBi