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We recognize those who work diligently for us and reward them for personal and professional integrity, communication skills, distinct competencies and expertise in specific strategies, ability to collaborate as a team member and true dedication to the interests of our clients.\nWe thank you for your interest in joining the Barings team, and invite you to explore our current employment opportunities.\nProject Manager\nDepartment: Strategic Delivery Team\nLocation: Charlotte, NC\nCompany Overview\nBarings is a leading global financial services firm dedicated to meeting the evolving investment and capital needs of its clients and customers. Through active asset management and direct origination, Barings provides innovative solutions and access to differentiated opportunities across public and private capital markets. A subsidiary of MassMutual, Barings maintains a strong global presence, with business and investment professionals located across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.\nJob Summary\nThe Strategic Delivery Team at Barings is seeking an experienced and highly organised Project Manager to support the successful delivery of strategic initiatives, technology implementations, operating model changes, and business transformation programmes.\nThis role will be responsible for leading projects across the full delivery lifecycle, including initiation, scoping, planning, design, execution, testing, implementation, transition to business-as-usual, and project closure. The successful candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, technology teams, investment operations, data teams, external vendors, and senior leadership to ensure projects are well governed, clearly communicated, and delivered in line with agreed scope, timelines, budget, quality standards, and business outcomes.\nThe role requires a strong project management skillset, with the ability to manage complex workstreams, coordinate cross-functional teams, identify and mitigate risks, drive decisions, and maintain momentum in a fast-paced financial services environment.\nPrimary Responsibilities\nProject Planning and Delivery\nLead the end-to-end delivery of strategic projects, technology implementations, process improvements, and business change initiatives.\nPartner with business and technology stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, success criteria, milestones, dependencies, and key deliverables.\nDevelop and maintain detailed project plans, including timelines, activities, owners, dependencies, critical path items, and delivery milestones.\nEnsure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget, while maintaining appropriate quality and governance standards.\nManage project execution across multiple workstreams, ensuring progress is actively tracked and blockers are escalated and resolved in a timely manner.\nSupport project initiation activities, including business case development, delivery approach, resource planning, governance structure, and stakeholder engagement model.\nDefine and track measurable business outcomes, benefits, and adoption indicators, ensuring delivery remains aligned to the approved business case.\nCoordinate project closure activities, including lessons learned, benefits tracking, transition to business-as-usual, and completion of project documentation.\nGovernance, Risk, and Controls\nEstablish and maintain appropriate project governance, including working groups, steering committees, reporting cadence, decision forums, and escalation routes.\nPrepare project status reporting for senior management, including progress updates, risks, issues, dependencies, milestones, decisions required, and changes to scope or timeline.\nMaintain robust project documentation, including plans, RAID logs, action trackers, decision logs, status reports, governance materials, and implementation readiness checklists.\nIdentify, assess, and manage project risks and issues, ensuring clear owners, mitigation plans, target dates, and escalation points are in place.\nManage change control processes, ensuring any changes to scope, timelines, cost, or deliverables are clearly documented, assessed, approved, and communicated.\nManage project budgets, forecasts, resource capacity, and supplier expenditure, identifying variances and corrective actions early.\nEnsure project delivery addresses applicable information security, data privacy, regulatory, compliance, and operational resilience requirements.\nEnsure delivery is aligned with internal standards, audit expectations, control requirements, and governance frameworks.\nStakeholder and Communication Management\nBuild and maintain strong relationships with business sponsors, senior stakeholders, technology partners, vendors, and project team members.\nAct as a central coordination point across business, technology, operations, and external parties to ensure alignment and effective delivery.\nFacilitate project meetings, workshops, decision forums, and governance sessions, ensuring clear agendas, outputs, actions, and follow-ups.\nCommunicate project updates clearly and concisely to different audiences, including executives, delivery teams, functional leads, and end users.\nTranslate complex project information into clear, actionable summaries that highlight progress, risks, decisions, and next steps.\nDrive accountability across project teams by ensuring actions, owners, due dates, and dependencies are clearly understood and tracked.\nTeam Leadership and Delivery Discipline\nLead cross-functional project teams, including business representatives, technology teams, data teams, change management, operations, compliance, risk, and external partners.\nProvide clear direction to project team members and ensure alignment against agreed priorities and milestones.\nFoster a collaborative, delivery-focused culture with strong ownership, transparency, and accountability.\nProactively identify delivery challenges and work with stakeholders to remove blockers, resolve conflicts, and maintain project momentum.\nApply structured project management methods while remaining flexible and pragmatic based on project complexity and stakeholder needs.\nOwn integrated implementation and cutover planning, including testing governance, operational readiness, communications, training, support arrangements, go/no-go criteria, and post-implementation stabilisation.\nSupport continuous improvement of delivery practices, templates, tools, governance processes, and project management standards.\nQualifications and Experience\nRequired Experience\nBachelor’s degree in finance, business administration, technology, management, economics, or a related discipline.\n10+ years of project management experience, including delivery of large-scale, cross-functional projects in financial services, asset management, investment management, or a related industry.\nDemonstrated experience managing complex projects involving business change, technology implementation, data, operating model design, process improvement, or platform transformation.\nExperience working with senior stakeholders and preparing clear project reporting for executive-level audiences.\nProven ability to manage multiple workstreams, dependencies, risks, issues, actions, and decisions across a complex delivery environment.\nStrong understanding of project delivery lifecycle disciplines, including initiation, planning, execution, testing, implementation, change management, and closure.\nDemonstrated experience managing budgets, resource forecasts, delivery capacity, and commercial relationships with third-party suppliers.\nExperience working with technology teams, business users, product owners, vendors, and third-party delivery partners.\nStrong knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies, with practical experience applying the right approach based on project needs.\nExperience with project management and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Azure DevOps, Clarity, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, and other industry-standard delivery tools.\nCore Project Management Skills\nExcellent planning, organisation, and time management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and maintain delivery discipline.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify risks, assess options, recommend solutions, and drive decisions.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear, concise, and senior-ready materials.\nStrong facilitation skills, with the ability to lead meetings, workshops, working groups, and steering committee discussions.\nAbility to work independently while maintaining strong collaboration with project teams and stakeholders.\nStrong attention to detail, with the ability to maintain accurate project plans, status reports, action logs, RAID logs, and governance documentation.\nComfortable operating in ambiguity and bringing structure to complex or evolving delivery environments.\nProven ability to influence without direct authority and drive accountability across diverse stakeholder groups.\nStrong judgement and escalation management skills, with the ability to identify when decisions, risks, or blockers require senior attention.\nAdditional Desired Qualifications\nPMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum Master, SAFe, or equivalent project management certification preferred.\nPrevious experience within a programme management office, strategic delivery function, consulting organisation, or transformation team.\nExperience delivering projects within asset management, investment operations, private markets, public markets, risk, compliance, data, or technology functions.\nExperience supporting vendor-led implementations or coordinating delivery across multiple external partners.\nExperience with Azure DevOps Boards, Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, and Teams.\nKey Attributes\nStructured, proactive, and delivery-focused.\nAble to bring clarity to complex initiatives and drive disciplined execution.\nConfident working with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.\nCollaborative, pragmatic, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment.\nStrong sense of ownership and accountability.\nAble to balance strategic context with detailed delivery management.\nSkilled at identifying risks early and driving practical mitigation 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