Project Manager

Technology Project Manager

Overview

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a passionate IT Project Manager with good Agile knowledge to manage projects and support product delivery for our Business Services software development team. This role requires a strong resilient project manager with excellent communication and leadership skills who loves solving problems.

Company Description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is a leading provider of innovative solutions for significant risk data analytics challenges. We use the power of data and advanced analytics to help our customers make better, timelier decisions. Our innovative solutions enable organizations to manage risks like identity theft, fraud, money laundering and terrorism and prevent financial crimes and scams. By bringing clarity to information, we ultimately help make communities safer, commerce more transparent, business decisions easier and processes more efficient.

LexisNexis is part of RELX Group plc, a world-leading provider of information solutions for professional customers. You can learn more about us at our website

As a Business Services Project Manager, you will be an essential member of our team, managing a diverse range of software projects and activities. Our mission is to lead change and enable excellent global product delivery by collaborating flexibly and transparently with our partners across the organization. You will enjoy working in a friendly environment and benefit from our investment in staff.

Main Responsibilities
- Liaise with multiple domestic and offshore cross-functional agile product development teams
- Promote strong collaboration between teams, manage dependencies, sharing best practice and helping clear potential blockers
- Manage release delivery, coordinating dependencies across multiple teams
- Work closely with the Scrum Masters, other Project Managers, Software Development Leads and Product Owners to ensure that the teams remain closely synchronised and upcoming features are well planned
- Clear communication of business objectives across the development teams so they can contribute to planned deadlines and align on decisions
- Coordinate and partner with diverse internal and external stakeholder groups including securing early engagement to achieve effective support
- Identify project risks & issues escalating where appropriate in a timely manner; ensure impacts are communicated so all parties are aligned; partner with project stakeholders to resolve issues and mitigate project impacts
- Ensure timely use of project and technology tools to help drive accountability. Ensure project resources and budgets are tracked and kept up to date. Develop and distribute timely status reporting with key metrics to appropriate stakeholders.

Essential Skills and Attributes
- Previous proven project leadership experience (3+ years)
- Previous proven project leadership with managing demanding customer
- You should be able to demonstrate the following behaviours and capabilities:

- Motivate or inspire others to aim for higher levels of achievement
- Adopt new ways of doing things in pursuit of adding value to customers and the team
- Actively foster diversity and inclusion, valuing and respecting differences to achieve team harmony and enable higher team performance
- Present information in a concise and effective manner, ensuring messages are received, understood and all parties are aligned
- Learn from challenging experiences, recover, and continue making progress towards objectives without reducing pace
- Align short-term priorities with strategic and long-term objectives

Desirable Skills and Attributes
- Experience working with matrixed/shared teams
- Experience working with MS Office and Jira

**Benefits**:

- The opportunity to work on a full range of interesting projects - become familiar with concepts related to large scale/high performance data processing, screening, scoring & analytics
- Make a real difference to our customers and society
- Connect with a growing, diverse, and sociable team who enjoy regular team building and hack-a-thons
- Experience dedicated time for innovation alongside opportunity to deliver creatively

We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form:

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