Project Manager – X Labs Lead

Job title:

Project Manager – X Labs Lead

Company

Stefanini

Job description

Details:Team Context:
The Innovation Office [IO] is responsible for driving the firm’s innovation strategy by continuously exploring new and emerging technologies for firm wide benefit. Capturing opportunities, connecting ideas to resources and leadership to accelerate business innovation, value identification and implementation.
BlackRock is seeking a lead for its X Labs in Edinburgh with innovation, agile, project management, preferably engineering or software development experience.The X Labs team is an integral part of the Innovation Office. X Labs is a global team with its physical Labs based in Atlanta (US), Edinburgh (United Kingdom), Mumbai (India)
Key X Labs objectives are: –

• To centralize management of ideation and innovation across the firm.
• Proving business value of an idea or innovation opportunity to justify future investment or defer the opportunity.
• Crowdsource ideas for product and service innovation, process optimization and even revenue generation.
• Manage the Innovation Platform and host Hackathons, surveys and Ideation events.
• Run and facilitate innovation Sprints to accelerate ideation, innovation and business value identification for BlackRock, covering opportunities in: –
• Technology
• Processes
• Products and services

Role Overview:In this role, the X Labs Lead will be a part of the global X Labs team, reporting to the Head of X Labs, with the following responsibilities: –

• Prepare for X-Sprints by: –
• In conjunction with technology members of the Sprint complete a technical assessment and summarisation of technology, engineering resources required to ensure the Sprint will be successful.
• In conjunction with business members of the X Sprint complete a business assessment and summarisation of business resources required to ensure the Sprint will be successful
• Identify and ensure required technology, software and licenses are available.
• Engaging with X Sprint attendees, sponsors and stakeholders, build constructive relationships to manage expectation and achieve required outcomes.
• Identifying the specific problems / opportunities to target, agree the outcomes required.
• Identify and ensure required logistics (Facilities, systems access etc) are in place.
• Facilitate X-Sprints, ensuring teams remain focussed on the outcomes, follow the methodology agreed for each X Sprint.
• Complete resource plans for X Sprints.
• Document X Sprints, complete required reports and management information summaries.
• Identify improvement opportunities, take ownership of their implementation and associated communication and training.
• Work with X Labs to complete internal Sprints following SCRUM, Kanban and Project Management delivery models.
• Manage ideation and innovation requests received by the Innovation office via the tools and processes utilised.
• Act as an ambassador for X Labs both internally and externally

Successful candidates will need to be flexible in the roles they take on to meet business demands and deliverables, this may mean individuals take on more senior roles and less senior roles in short cycles: e.g.: Senior Project Manager, Scrum Coach, Project Administrator, Analyst, Technical AssessorJob RequirementsDetails:Responsibilities include:

• Lead multiple cross functional teams on various projects both using Agile & Hybrid methods.
• Analyze and translate opportunities / problem statements into tangible, measurable solutions.
• Ability to effectively communicate at all levels of the organization.
• Actively remove or facilitate removal of impediments that block progress of X Labs deliverables.
• Support and educate Sprint squads to ensure the X Sprint methodology is understood and outcomes are achieved.
• Partner and collaborate with internal teams, stakeholders, vendors, and dependent teams.
• Lead planning sessions to establish scope and benefit identification.
• Manage and facilitate efficient cross-functional team X Sprint and internal Sprint ceremonies.
• Champion and foster project change management processes and procedures
• Foster team accountability while ensuring continual flow of high-quality value from X Sprints.
• Ensure that projects follow standard operating policies, procedures, and best practices.
• Exhibits a goal driven aptitude to take on stretch goals.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, a pragmatic approach, and confidence to deliver projects in an environment undergoing significant transformation.
• Creativity in problem solving and communicating.
• Self-motivated work ethic, managing activities throughout the various stages of project lifecycle.
• Pays attention to team needs and pivots his/ her approaches accordingly to support the delivery of business value.
• Ensure diversity, equality and inclusions is applied and respected in all behaviors and actions.

Required Experience:

• 10 years’ experience of working with technology teams in a Project Management, Scrum Master, Team lead Capacity.
• Experience of working with, collaborating or leading strategic initiatives or innovation projects
• Direct experience in working with Cloud teams, Data Engineering, Artificial Intelligence or software development teams.

• Experienced in IT infrastructure and technical project delivery
• Technical aptitude, understanding technology in a business context
• Experience working with global, distributed teams across multiple cultures and time zones
• Ambitious and proactive – able to show initiative and come up with ideas without prompting
• Advanced user of agile management and productivity tools
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Experience in managing and working with Squads covering end-to-end delivery lifecycles:
• Business Case / value definition
• Design
• Rapid prototyping
• Development
• Security compliance
• Implementation
• Post Implementation Support and Consultancy
• Code Automation
• Lifecycle Management and Cost controls

Preferred Skills:

• Technology driven project delivery into Businesses
• Business and stakeholder management
• ADO, Jira
• Excel: developing Macros.
• Scrum Master heading towards being a Scrum Coach

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree (Computer Science or Engineering preferred)
• Project Management qualifications/ certifications

Pay Range:$ 65.00 – $ 85.00

Expected salary

Location

Edinburgh – Blackrock, Argyll and Bute

Job date

Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:02:20 GMT

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