Project Manager

Savills has a network of over 700 offices and associates throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East.  We require a high caliber individual to join us for the following position:-

Project Manager

This is a role within the Regional IT team who primarily manage concurrent large-scale IT projects that span across multiple business streams in APAC.   The Project Manager is responsible for the full spectrum of end-to-end project delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Project Planning and Execution:

  • Work closely with senior business stakeholders to understand their business needs and strategy adhering IT best practice, Group standards & policies.
  • Assist Product Lead on aligning project goals with the overall product strategy and prioritizing features.
  • Develop comprehensive project plans, considering both technical aspects and product requirements; Create and maintain governance meetings and project reporting.
  • Ensure timely and quality delivery within budget and scope.
  • Meet budgetary objectives and adjust project constraints based on financial analysis.
  • Ensure comprehensive project documentation throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Ensure that new products and services are effectively handed over to Operational support.
  • Strive for excellence and learn from experience by conducting survey and post implementation review with business and internal teams.
  • Report to Product Lead about project status and potential challenges

• Team Management:

  • Allocate resources effectively, considering both technical expertise and product priorities.
  • Delegate project tasks based on junior staff members' individual strengths, skill sets, and experience levels.
  • Co-ordinate and manage onshore / offshore teams with their assignments, user stories, and acceptance criteria along with execution plans.
  • Regularly engage with cross-functional teams, including developers, business analyst, QA and country IT teams.
  • Facilitate communication between technical teams and Product Lead.
  • Provide knowledge, insights, directions, and guidelines to colleagues who are less experienced.

• Risk Management and Mitigation:

  • Identify potential risks, assess the likelihood and impact that could affect the project delivery and product roadmap.
  • Work proactively to mitigate risks and address any roadblocks.
  • Communicate with Product Lead on the identified risk, mitigation plan and progress.

• Technical Insight:

  • Understand technical architectures, software development lifecycles, and deployment processes; be able to facilitate debate and drive decisions on appropriate solutions.
  • Provide professional consultation to our business team with feasible and cost-effective technical solutions.
  • Examine all function as well as non-functional requirements to ensure that product / project engineering meet country compliance, group compliance and project constraints.
  • Consider comprehensiveness towards non-functional requirements that cater the concerns of security, performance, maintainability, scalability, and usability of a product.
  • Translate technical complexities into actionable plans for the team.

• Vendor Management:

  • Access estimation from vendor, evaluate performance, and ensure vendor alignment with project goals.
  • Ensuring the day-to-day communication with vendor from resources management, project management to activity management.
  • Collaborate with vendors for specialized technical services or tools.
  • Engaging in RFP bids and vendor selection in the early stages of a project where required.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, software engineering, computer science, or related field.
• Proven track record in managing strategic global solutions delivery which includes app based projects, infrastructure projects as an additional advantage.
• Able to demonstrate strong management skills including project management, financial management, change management and facilitation.
• Experience in leading & managing the (onshore and offshore) team along with multiple concurrent projects delivery.
• Knowledge of Microsoft products such as Azure Cloud, SQL Database, Dynamics 365, .NET, O365.
• Knowledge of enterprise standards including logging, monitoring, access limitation, sensitive data handling.
• Knowledge and experience in different development principles & architecture design.
• Comfortable to work in Agile along with traditional waterfall model.
• Be reliable, accountable and with excellent ability to communicate effectively to all levels of the business and technical resources.
• Be a team-player - with a positive, pro-active attitude to encourage and enthuse the project team.
• Able to work under pressure and with agility to the dynamic and fast paced environment.
• Be fluent in English and Cantonese, proficient in Mandarin for business communication and presentation.

We offer attractive remuneration packages and excellent prospects for the right candidate.   Please apply with full resume and salary expectation to:

http://savills.com.hk

Applications will be treated as strictly confidential.  Personal data collected will be used for recruitment purpose only.  Applicants not hearing from us within 2 months from the date of application submitted may consider their applications unsuccessful.