Job Description

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

The role is responsible to plan and deliver scope within the product roadmap endorsed by the Exco members. As a lead role from IT delivery, you shall work closely with stakeholders from products, pricing, operations, technology and others to deliver each defined scope within defined timeline, cost and expected quality, whilst ensuring compliance to governance and balancing stakeholders' expectations.

• Collaborates with stakeholders to document project scope, deliverables, goals, risks, blockers, success measures, and estimated resources needed.

• Ensures that projects remain in-scope and meet budgetary, scheduling, and quality requirements.

• Creates, manages, and distributes project communications artifacts like charters, schedules, and budgets.

• Provides project status updates at predetermined time intervals to all stakeholders.

• Communicates routinely to management, customers, project team members, and other stakeholders, actively soliciting and addressing customer and project team feedback.

• Sets and monitors project budgets requirements.

• Ensures adherence to legally binding requirements.

• Plan, schedule, monitor, and report on activities related to the project, including subcontractor monitoring.

• Establishes key project criteria metrics.

• Develop project control and reporting procedures and manage changes in operational plan.

• Plans and leads status review meetings, which may include internal team members, vendors, and customers.

• Responsible for training, managing, and motivating the project team, as well as resolving team conflicts.

• Resolves technical and operational issues as required.

Job Specification

• At least bachelor’s degree in computer engineering/Information technology from a recognized institute.

• MBA holder will be an advantage.

• At least 8 years of experience in project management of medium to large scale projects.

• Demonstrate track record of leading multiple teams and managing multiple stakeholders’ expectations, including problem identification and resolution.

• Strong knowledge and experience with various project & program management and problem-solving tools.

• Experience in managing, tracking and controlling significant project budget.

• Ability to think and analyze both functional and non-functional aspects while designing and implementing services/products.

• Solid experience putting in place the quality gates in order to establish controls on change & demand management aspects.

• Certified with PMP / APM / Prince2 / PMI would be an advantage.

• Qualified in Agile project management would be an advantage.

• Certified with ITIL would be an advantage.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.