Assistant Manager, Project Management

About the role

Key Accountabilities

• Ensuring establishment and embedding delivery plans for one or more workstream elements of the overall delivery programme for the eMPF Platform Company Limited;

• Ensuring standard project management techniques and scope are covered, for example progress updates, plan management, dependency management, resource allocation and smoothing, risk management, assumption management, budget control, etc.;

• Working across multiple internal and external workstreams relating to technology, process design, operational management, vendor management and commercial delivery as required by relevant work streams;

• Ensuring timely and effective communication across programme work streams and internal / external stakeholders;

• Driving, monitoring and reporting plan delivery across all stages of the project lifecycle;

• Actively using risk management approaches to maximize project delivery; and

• Managing an indirect delivery team often including third party suppliers.

Skills and Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Service/Technology, Engineering, Business or other related disciplines;

• Project Management Professional (PMP) or similar certified;

• 5-8 years of relevant project management experience, preferably in a financial services and/or public sector environment, and on technology driven projects;

• Experience in digital transformation, MPF / pension operations & experience in dealing with regulators directly is a plus;

• Experience in managing the delivery of digital projects through the whole lifecycle including digital projects of high complexity, and in particular, testing and implementation project stages;

• Exposure to / experience in managing a vendor to deliver a complex large-scale project or sub-projects;

• Strong in internal and external stakeholder management;

• Background in driving strategic, technology-led initiatives under the executive management Office or Management Trainee program is an advantage

• Self Driven, positive, highly structured, proactive, and analytical;

• Excellent organization and problem solving skills, and be able to work under pressure;

• Good command of both spoken and written Chinese and English; and

• Demonstrate good communication skills in order to drive cross workstream

• Keen and willing to work in a start-up style environment with all the flexibility that requires and level of change involved

• Candidates with 2-4 years of consulting firms’ experience will also be considered