Reuters Operations and Strategy seeks a collaborative, motivated project and program leader with experience in delivering content-driven product development solutions.
The Technology Delivery Management team is responsible for solution delivery, and implementation of service and support of the cloud-based technology and platforms that underpin Reuters News and Media products.
The ideal candidate will have proven ability to lead global projects and programs that drive results and process improvements; someone who is motivated by the desire to improve our Customers’ experiences, optimize productivity, and nurture project success from inception to completion.
The successful candidate will be working with our Pulitzer Prize winning Editorial team, our Commercial teams, as well as the variety of teams across the Reuters organization.
The individual will have a passion for Agile delivery and the culture of continuous improvement the Agile mindset brings.
About the Role
As our Senior Delivery Manager, you will:
Maintains effective control, leadership, and responsibility for the delivery of the project or program – scope, schedule, budget, quality, and business value.Ensures the communication channels and processes are in place to notify key stakeholders about status, changes, issues/risks and dependencies.Effectively manages project team conflicts, builds collaborative partnerships with stakeholders and gains commitment to make decisions.Implements effective communication plans and operating rhythm, change management processes and provision of regular and accurate reports.Effectively communicates Agile principles, scrum practices and overall operating model across the organization, embracing an Agile mindset.Partners with the Business to support product backlog prioritization.
About You
As our Senior Delivery Manager, you will likely have:
10+ years experience in project and program management, with agile, product development teams.Demonstrated experience delivering and managing projects and programs through the entire software development lifecycle. In some cases, these will have a high degree of ambiguity.Strong negotiating, influencing, and conflict resolution skills.Proven ability to identify, assess and manage risks to successfully deliver programs and projects and ensure stakeholders have information to make effective decisions.Comfort with working in a complex and dynamic environment, juggling multiple priorities, interacting with people at all levels of the organization and across multiple functions to successfully deliver projects.Track record of effective control, leadership and responsibility across project and program delivery - including scope, schedule, budget, quality, and business value.Ability to influence and drive change. Team player who can leave their ego at the door.Proven ability to develop and maintain broad knowledge of related functional areas across the business. Ability to clearly communicate and influence by adapting style to reflect changing needs at all stakeholder levels Confidence to challenge the status quo.Creative problem solver.Outstanding attention to detail combined with the ability to see the big picture.
Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Competencies
Technical Understanding: Experience working with teams using modern web and mobile app technologies, and CMS platform. You don’t have to be an engineer but you have to be able to talk to engineers.Agile & Development Methodologies: Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban) across the full product and software development lifecycle.Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).Professional Certifications: Relevant professional certifications such as Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile (Scrum Master or equivalent), or similar qualifications.Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to clearly convey technical and non-technical information to diverse stakeholders.Project & Collaboration Tools: Proficient in project management tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, MS Project, Smartsheet).#LI-CH1
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: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected
Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
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: Ten 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.
Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.
We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
Accessibility
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
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