Senior Project Manager - Data

at  ASB Group

• Customer centric enterprise-wide project initiatives across data management & analytics, finance, compliance, cards, payments and more
• Ample career development - mentor programmes and learning & development opportunities
• Flexible working across ASB North Wharf, C-Drive (Albany) & home
  Here at ASB, the customer is at the heart of everything we do. We are recognised as one of New Zealand’s leading organisations with a highly engaged and talented workforce focused on accelerating the financial progress for all New Zealanders.
  The Delivery Practice is a team that works across all areas of delivery, including Business Analysis, Change Management, and Project Management. These areas form communities within the Practice that support initiatives across ASB, helping us work in a modern way, and cultivating happy customer experiences through change and transformation.
  We’re doing a variety of strategic initiatives right across all of ASB, so you will have the opportunity to work across projects such as new product implementation and enhancements, compliance and regulatory change, as well as system and process business transformation.

ABOUT YOU:

Coming from a solid project management background, in either business process, or technology, you have proven capabilities in the areas of planning an defining, managing the full project management lifecycle, monitoring project delivery and its quality, reporting and relentless care over what we’re trying to achieve and helping us get there.
Your mind-set will be a mix of growth, caring, and strategy that will help you build great relationships with a variety of people, coach people growing in project management, support your peers, spot challenges, unpick roadblocks and able decision making.

As a starter for success, we are looking for some of the following skills and experience:

• Senior project management and project delivery experience, ideally within an enterprise or financial services environment, with clear and proven Data experience
• Skills in modern project management methodology, covering things like people process, technology and delivery frameworks in an agile way
• Experience reporting and courage communicating project process, risks, issues and status to a wide audience

We’re looking for a strong Data Project Manager, someone who has project managed large scale data projects and understands the architectural terminology and how to embed data controls throughout the delivery lifecycle. We are currently undertaking one of the largest Data Transformations at ASB, moving our on premise data warehouses and products to the cloud (Snowflake). Your role will be the glue between our Technology and project teams, and often involves navigating multiple streams of work.
Your ability to tackle complexity, ambiguity and manage senior stakeholders to help plan and implement the project, while identifying and deploying resources will enable a great experience and delivery of a successful project.
As part of the Delivery Practice community, you’ll support best practice for how we should be working, and lift capability through coaching and mentoring upcoming Project Managers.