Program Manager

Key Skills

Agile methodologies, Data science techniques, Effective communication skills, Environmental, Leadership Skill, Project management

Job Description

About the Role:

In this opportunity as a Program Manager, you:

• Drive and manage multiple departmental data management and technology projects
• Collaborate with business owners to align project deliverables with business goals and expectations
• Create and maintain risks, issues and decision logs, status reports, meeting summaries, and project schedules
• Provide feedback on an ongoing basis to improve processes, methodologies, and standards to improve efficiency, quality, and performance
• Collaborate with other project managers to create and share a common set of best practices
• Support a change control process by raising change requests and keeping documents current throughout the development and delivery process
• Communication and collaboration with global partners which may require non-business hour calls

About You:

You are a fit for the role of Program Manager if you have:

• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Four-year undergraduate degree or work-experience equivalent. Degree in data science, computer science or related field is a plus but not required
• Seven or more years of experience working in a data or technology environment including four or more years of project management experience
• Demonstrated project planning and management skills with working knowledge of project management methodology and related software tools 
• PMP certification a plus but not required
• Strong English communication skills — both written and verbal — which must include willingness to communicate, clarity of communication style, tact and sensitivity when dealing with difficult situations; Strong persuasion and negotiation skills, including conflict resolution skills.
• Good leadership qualities in setting direction and encouraging others to participate and creating a sense and spirit of teamwork.
• Ability to break complex business issues into actionable tasks.
• Ability to work effectively in a professional manner with managers, technology staff, business stakeholders and end users.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision. Self-motivated.
• Ability to establish good and effective relationships with the business owners.
• Strong team player and contributor.
• Demonstrated project planning and management skills with working knowledge of project management methodology and software.
• Demonstrated experience in creating and leading cross-functional project teams.
• Ability to work independently, self-motivated, ability to drive projects.
• Experience with business cases and compiling and analyzing information to estimate project costs.
• Demonstrated facilitation skills with the ability to gather meaningful data, resolve conflicts and build consensus.
• Experience creating use cases and user workflow diagrams to describe processes is desired.
• Ability to flourish in a challenging environment, set priorities and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

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 for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: 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.
• 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: Nine 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.

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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.