Assc Dir-Program Manager

Location(s): 55 Princess Street, Floor 3, Manchester, M2 4EW, GB; 7 Exchange Crescent, Conference Square, Edinburgh, EH3 8RD, GB

Line Of Business: Banking (BANKING)

Job Category: Product Development

Experience Level: Experienced Hire

At Moody's, we unite the brightest minds to turn today's risks into tomorrow's opportunities. We do this by striving to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome to be who they are - with the freedom to exchange ideas, think innovatively, and listen to each other and customers in meaningful ways.

If you are excited about this opportunity but do not meet every single requirement, please apply! You still may be a great fit for this role or other open roles. We are seeking candidates who model our values: invest in every relationship, lead with curiosity, champion diverse perspectives, turn inputs into actions, and uphold trust through integrity.

The Program Manager plays a pivotal role in ensuring the successful delivery of multiple related projects within a program, aligning with business objectives and ensuring high standards of stakeholder management.

Responsibilities:

• Directly lead, manage and deliver complex initiatives involving a wide variety of stakeholders from origin to execution.
• Establish and oversee program governance, ensuring clear ownership, decision-making, accountability and timely executions.
• Define workstreams, and jointly with your manager, identify owners and stakeholders, activities to be conducted, main deliverables and timelines for completion.
• Work closely with senior leaders and product teams to ensure strategic deliverables are progressing on time and deliver tangible benefits.
• Run Steering Committees and working groups, articulating key information and timely decision making.
• Create and present clear communication materials, status updates and decisions.
• Work through complex and ambiguous challenges, breaking them down into structured and actionable solutions.
• Address shifting priorities and evolving business needs with an agile and solution-oriented approach.
• Champion a data-driven approach to decision making, ensuring transformation initiatives deliver measurable impact.
• Support your manager in the annual Product Roadmap Prioritisation process, monthly dashboard reporting and other key PMO related projects as and when needed.

Key Skills:

• Strong analytical skills - To be able to manage, analyse, and synthesise large amounts of data and derive from those key findings and takeaways.
• Concise Communication skills - To be able to deliver key takeaways to stakeholders at different levels in a clear and concise way.
• Strong stakeholder management skills - Take into account varying perspectives from different stakeholders and be able to align teams to a common understanding and objectives.
• Have the ability to use data to drive decisions and mediate conflicting views.
• Collaborate with teams at all levels of the organization and facilitate the adoption of standard intake, prioritization, and innovation processes.
• Develop dashboards and metrics to monitor, troubleshoot, collaborate to solve issues, and communicate impacts/progress to internal/external stakeholders.
• Coordinate the construction of product roadmaps and serve as the central interface between groups working together on product strategy and product delivery.
• Work with key program stakeholders to set deadlines, clarify responsibilities, resolve project issues and monitor progress of projects.
• Able to identify, structure and manage multiple workstreams effectively whilst maintaining strong stakeholder management across all workstreams.
• Identify opportunities for business improvement and suggest innovative solutions.
• Co-ordinate with cross functional teams to facilitate smooth execution of program deliverables.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in related field or equivalent work experience required.
• 5-7 years experience operating as a Project/Programme Manager.
• Certification in project management, such as PMP or PRINCE2 is a plus.
• Experience leading cross functional teams and managing large scale projects.
• Banking/Financial Services/Data Analytical experience strongly preferred.
• Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle and different methodologies including Agile and Waterfall.
• Strong understanding of digital technologies and data analytics.
• Critical thinker with strong quantitative, qualitative analytical skills who is able to express their thoughts and ideas clearly in both oral and written form.
• A proactive and organized self-starter with a positive 'can do' attitude with a strong work ethic and attention to detail.
• Excellent project management and organizational skills.
• Ability to adapt to rapidly changing environments and manage multiple priorities.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Proficient with MS Project, PBI, Excel, PowerPoint, JIRA.

Moody's is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Candidates for Moody's Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moody's Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy, including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.