Senior Project Manager - London (Contract Outside IR35) - rate up to 800 pd

WE ARE:

At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.

Our clients include the world\'s leading investment banks, investment managers, fintechs and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in London, New York, Manila, Barcelona and Montreal, we have a proven track record delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.

We are now looking for PM services on an exciting project

THE INDIVIDUAL PROVIDING THE SERVICES IS:

• A strategic thinker with great communication skills
• Effective at building relationships with teams and clients
• A proactive problem-solver and collaborator

THE INDIVIDUAL PROVIDING THE SERVICES WILL:

• Ensure the agreed project is delivered to the required quality, on schedule and within budget
• Maintain appropriate communication with clients to ensure clarity and satisfaction
• The delivery team is provided with clarity on project objectives and expected outcomes, enabling them to deliver against agreed commitments.

DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICES:

• Manage the project:
• Understand the strengths and potential pitfalls that come with an Agile delivery philosophy based on personal experience
• Tailor and manage processes in accordance with the team structure and circumstances (different engagement models such as T&M or fixed price, the client\'s embrace of Agile, variable team size, geographical spread and engagement length…)
• Work collaboratively with our clients to identify, control, and document scope as well as building and maintaining delivery plans
• Provide accurate and timely updates on milestones and progress against a plan eg points burndown or a similar quantitative method

• Actively manage and mitigate project risk

• Manage a product :

• Maintain a product roadmap, incorporating and balancing requirements from multiple stakeholders
• Coordinate with Adaptive teams using the product
• Oversee production & maintenance of technical documentation and marketing materials

• Share knowledge with the Adaptive Support team

• Manage a team:

• Promote a servant leader mindset, empower highly-skilled team members to deliver their best and involve them in decision making
• Identify and drive the resolution of problems affecting team harmony and performance
• Understand various software concepts to discuss problems and orchestrate strategy with various talents in the team:~ Developers: real-time programming, high availability
  ~ QA: TDD, BDD, acceptance criteria
  ~ UX: ergonomic and modern design
  ~ BA: backlog management, domain knowledge (exchanges, real-time trading, investment banking)
  ~ DevOps
  ~ Support

• Work with distributed teams (London/Barcelona)

• Manage people:

• Regularly listen to your team members and listen to what they have to say about their job satisfaction, their aspirations... in the spirit of Adaptive\'s staff management style: informal and collegiate
• Liaise with directors/HR to report relevant information (ex: career plan development, a personal event requiring support from the team/company…)

• Take part in the probation process for new members of staff

• Manage resourcing:

• Own the resourcing plan for the engagement
• Review proposed resourcing model with Delivery leadership, and maintain resource forecast in Kimble
• Identify gaps in the team, and engage with HR team to recruit new hires accordingly

• Participate in hiring of PM peers

• Manage client & stakeholders:

• Provide regular project status reporting to client stakeholders
• Use effective and transparent communication
• Actively manage the client\'s expectations, make assumptions explicit and create an audit trail of important decisions throughout the engagement

• Liaise with the