Senior Project Manager

Job description

**About Rimes** Rimes provides the Intelligence Fabric for Capital Markets, a trusted data network and intelligence architecture that transforms fragmented data, operations and workflows into decision-grade intelligence. The world’s leading institutional investors, asset managers, and service providers rely on Rimes to help them make better investment decisions that power more than US$ 75 trillion in AUM annually. The **Senior Project Manager** is responsible for leading complex, client-facing implementation projects from planning through deployment and transition into business-as-usual operations. This role owns delivery outcomes across multiple workstreams, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, within budget, and to a high-quality standard. The successful candidate combines strong project leadership, stakeholder management, commercial awareness, and risk management expertise to drive successful client outcomes. They are a recognized expert within the PM function, the referral points for complex delivery challenges and you invest in the capability of the PMs around you as a core part of the role. **Key Responsibilities** **Project Delivery & Governance** - Lead complex, multi-workstream implementation project end-to-end. - Develop and manage project plans, timelines, milestones, budgets, resources, and dependencies. - Establish governance frameworks and ensure delivery remains aligned to agreed objectives. - Manage multiple concurrent projects and programmes where required, balancing priorities, resources and delivery commitments. - Oversee testing, UAT, deployment of readiness, transition into service, and formal client sign-off activities. **Risk, Issue & Change Management** - Identify, assess, and proactively manage project risks, issues, and dependencies. - Drive mitigation strategies and ensure risks are escalated appropriately. - Negotiate scope and change issues with clients, clearly communicating delivery and commercial impacts and helping stakeholders make informed decisions. - Manage scope of changes through structured change control processes. - Manage internal and client-side dependencies with equal rigour, ensuring commitments are clear and the impact of non-delivery is actively managed. - Balance clients needs, delivery commitments and commercial considerations. **Stakeholder Management** - Build strong relationships with senior client stakeholders, sponsors, and steering committees. - Lead governance meetings and executive-level project discussions. - Communicate project status, risks, and decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. - Influence stakeholders to support timely and effective decision-making. **Leadership & Team Coordination** - Lead cross-functional delivery teams including consultants, engineers, architects, testers, and business stakeholders. - Drive accountability across workstreams and ensure alignment towards common delivery objectives. - Mentor Project Managers and contribute to the development of project management best practices. - Support improvements to PM methodologies, standards, and delivery frameworks. **Commercial & Client Success** - Maintain awareness of project budgets and delivery costs. - Assess and manage the commercial implications of project decisions, risks, scope changes and change requests. - Protect delivery commitments while maintaining positive client relationships. - Support planning and delivery input during pre-sales and solution design discussions. **Preferred Background & Experience** - Significant experience managing complex client-facing implementation or transformation projects - Experience within technology, SaaS, financial services, data management, or professional services environments. - Proven success leading multi-workstream, cross-functional projects. - Experience managing project scope, budgets, risks, governance, and change control. - Experience engaging senior stakeholders and executive sponsors. - Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop other project managers. - Experience working within Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery environments. **Desired Qualifications** - Formal Project Management certification (PMP, PRINCE2, MSP, Agile certification, or equivalent). - Advanced knowledge of project management methodologies. - Experience using project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, or similar platforms.