Summary:

The Customer Experience and Digital Transformation team within Thomson Reuters seeks a high-energy motivated individual with strong project management skills.  Our organization is responsible for transforming Thomson Reuters into a digital-first business. This individual will manage projects that support the delivery of digitally enabled solutions and drive operational efficiencies in our organization.  These programs may require collaboration with various business and technology areas and involve multiple globally located businesses and project teams. The key to our success is largely dependent on the stellar ability of our project management team. We’re currently searching for an experienced, proactive, and collaborative program leader to join our ranks and continue our tradition of success. The ideal candidate will have a proven ability to lead programs that drive results and process improvements. We are looking for someone who is motivated by the desire to improve our customers’ experiences, optimize productivity, and nurture program success from inception to completion.

About the Role

In this opportunity, as Senior Project Manager you will: 

Manage large technology and business-related projects that involve driving key initiatives to deliver digitally enabled solutions that improve our customer's experience and simplify business operations.  

Proactively identify, assess, and manage project risks and issues to the success of the project.  Develop contingency plans to mitigate or avoid the risk. Ensure there is appropriate visibility of risks and issues to all levels of management, up to and including executive management.

Maintain effective control, leadership, and responsibility for the delivery of the project - including scope, schedule, budget, quality, and business value.  Recommend solutions to any issues that change the scope of the project or negatively impact its delivery or cost.

Develop and track detailed project plans to meet business needs, including schedules, cost estimates, resource plans, communication plans, risk mitigation plans, and issue resolution plans. Ensure delivery milestones and timelines are articulated.

Build key relationships and interfaces with all areas of the business to ensure the success of the program.

Work closely with functional resource managers to ensure adequate allocation of resources to projects and programs being managed.

Define, communicate, and champion an agility mindset to deliver the organization’s objectives.

Ensure the communication channels and processes are in place to notify key stakeholders about status, changes, and issues/risks.

Proactively identify and recommend project improvements. Deliver project reports to an executive-level audience as necessary.

Facilitate and manage the integration and coordination of systems, processes, staff, and resources.

Provide direction, and leadership and act as an information and support source for project team members.

Ensure compliance with all applicable standards and policies.

Provide management and leadership for project management contractors and/or additional project management staff as applicable

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Senior Project Manager if you have:

BS/BA required with minimum of 7 years of progressive program/project management experience, including implementation programs of cross-functional projects in a technology or matrix organizational environment.

Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle(s)

Able to communicate and influence by adapting style to reflect changing needs at all stakeholder levels

Strong knowledge of project management methodologies, as well as resource allocation and budgeting experience

Strong negotiating, influencing, and conflict-resolution skills

Ability to flex schedule to work with global business partners

Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, SharePoint, Visio, Excel PowerPoint, and MS Project or other project management tools.

Demonstrated experience delivering and managing projects with cross-functional requirements and dependencies through the entire lifecycle.

Proven project management skills including a fully competent knowledge of project management methodologies and how to execute; the ability to manage projects with competing demands for limited resources.

Proven skills in directing non-dedicated resources and staff in high-exposure projects with tight deadlines and competing resources.

Ability to conform to shifting priorities and proactively drive changes in project scope, timelines, and requirements

Able to lead all phases of the projects. Identifies, assesses, and manages risks to the success of the program and ensures stakeholders have information to make effective decisions.

Excellent team building and proven leadership skills.

Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills.

Experience leading cross-functional, remote, and virtual project teams in a matrix organization. •Experience interacting with senior management and business stakeholders.

Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.

Experience in building relationships and eliciting cooperation with all areas of the business to ensure the success of the program.

Able to effectively communicate complex ideas at multiple organizational levels and can modify personal approach and style to reflect changing circumstances.

Strong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to convey messages to all levels in the organization; experience working on projects that may have sensitive and confidential impacts.

Results-oriented.

Strong negotiating, influencing, and conflict-resolution skills.

Outstanding attention to detail combined with the ability to see the big picture.

Comfortable working in a dynamic environment

Preferred Qualifications

Professional certifications such as Project Management (PMP), Change Management (PROSCI), and/or Agile (Scrum Master, ACP) certifications

Demonstrated experience managing teams through a significant transformation with an ambiguous scope and audacious vision

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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 (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, 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.

Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

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: Ten 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.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: Eagan, MN; Ann Arbor, MI; Richmond, VA; Rochester, NY. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $97,100 - $180,300. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

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. 

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We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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