Role Overview
A Project Manager (PM) with native Mandarin proficiency and specialization in governmental regulations is responsible for overseeing and managing projects, ensuring they comply with complex regulatory frameworks, especially in cross-border contexts. Their role involves coordinating with government agencies, ensuring adherence to legal and compliance requirements, and managing communication with stakeholders in Mandarin-speaking regions. Based in Asia, but outside of China (such as in Singapore), they navigate regional policies and international standards, often in industries like finance, logistics, tech, or legal sectors, where cross-jurisdictional regulations are critical.
Responsibilities:
- OKR Management: Drive the definition, tracking, and achievement of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and strategic priorities.
- Squad Relationship Enhancement: Work closely with squads to improve relationships and collaboration, ensuring that teams are aligned and empowered to achieve desired results.
- Impediment Management: Tactically identify dependencies and blockers, track and help remove them accordingly.
- Lead multiple projects with waterfall approach
- Communicate with cross functional teams globally
- Ability to effectively communicate at all levels of the organization.
- Experience delivering diverse Cyber Security projects (Risk Management and Controls, Security Tools, Cloud Sec, Digital Services Delivery, PII, AIM etc.) in a large enterprise environment.
- Proactively engage in problem solving to remove obstacles that hinder the progress of program or product delivery and ensure successful results.
- Partner and collaborate with internal teams, stakeholders, vendors, and any dependent teams.
- Manage cross-functional team to support development and product releases. Teams may be globally dispersed.
- Champion and foster project change management processes, procedures, and industry best practices.
- Foster team accountability while ensuring continual flow of high-quality value from the outcomes.
- Ensure that projects follow standard operating policies, procedures, and best practices.
- Experience working with technical teams, architecture, and 3rd party suppliers/providers.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, a pragmatic approach, and confidence to deliver projects in an environment undergoing significant transformation.
- Creativity in problem solving and communicating.
- Self-motivated work ethic facilitation and managing activities throughout the various stages of project lifecycle.
- Pays attention to team needs and pivots his/ her approaches accordingly to support the delivery of business value.
