Delivery Excellence – Senior Director, Cloud Onboarding Project Management

Who we are
For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds.

SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients.

SimCorp is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients.

Why this role is important to us
Delivery Excellence comprises several teams within Professional Services, all of which participate in or support client deliveries across our SimCorp service suite, including advisory/consultancy, managed services and business services. As the Senior Director, Cloud Onboarding Project Management, you will lead our global team of Project Managers who are focused on onboarding our clients to the cloud infrastructure and successful transition into operations. This includes greenfield implementations, business service clients, and the migration of existing clients.

In addition to managing the team, you will work directly with our clients, for example, in project governance steering committees. Internally, you will manage stakeholders across related parts of our global organization, driving the adoption of processes, best practices, and knowledge sharing within the project management practice and Delivery Excellence. You will report to the Head of Global Delivery Excellence and work closely with the SaaS operations and cloud infrastructure teams in each of our Market Units in EMEA, North America and Asia-Pacific.

What you will be responsible for

• Managing the Global team of Cloud Onboarding Project Managers

• Strategic planning and alignment of projects with the broader SimCorp organization, including managing pipelines, resource allocation, forecasting, and budgeting

• Accountable for effective Governance and Risk Mitigation and Resolution across the project portfolio

• Promoting adoption of PM standard processes, best practices and artefacts, encouraging a network of knowledge sharing in the global PM community and great career experiences

• Collaborating with the SaaS organization to improve and adapt processes to support effective delivery throughout the full project lifecycle and into operations

• Contributing to the Delivery Excellence team to ensure the adoption of Delivery Excellence standards and supporting the global team culture of collaboration, transparency and data-driven decision-making

What we value
Most importantly, you can see yourself contributing and thriving in the position described above. We expect you to excel at several of the following skills and be able to - and interested in - learning the rest.

• Great leadership capabilities

• Engaged, creative and commercially minded with a global perspective

• Experience in managing various stakeholders such as C-level, engineers and operations, in complex, fast-moving project environments

• Proven track record in managing and driving client projects in the software, Financial Services or IT Services industry, with global experience with cloud/hosted solutions

• Great coordination and collaboration skills, creating engagement and followers

• Very good communication, influencing, conflict management and negotiation skills

• Proficiency in English both verbal and written

• Coming to SimCorp’s office on 2 days a week as per our hybrid work model

Benefits
An attractive salary, bonus scheme, and pension are essential for any work agreement. However, in SimCorp we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide a good work and life balance: flexible working hours and a hybrid model. And opportunities for professional development: there is never just one route - we offer an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take. Visit our career pages to learn more about working at SimCorp.

Next steps
Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.

For any questions you are welcome to contact Rita Jeziorowski, Lead Talent Acquisition Partner, at [email protected]. If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on a growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.

We want to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.

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Location: London

Additional location:

• Warsaw
• The Hague
• Bad Homburg
• Copenhagen
• Paris