Senior Project Manager

Overview:

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior Project Manager to join our dynamic Index team. The Senior Project Manager will play a crucial role in planning, execution, and delivering various initiatives on the Index Roadmap on time and within scope, aligning with the company's overall product roadmap and strategic objectives.

Key relationships & committees : Technical Product Management, Index Engineering, Data Engineering, Product Index, Index and Data Operations

Responsibilities:

• You manage dependencies and drive Decision Making where a plan is dependent on decisions not yet taken.

• You help cement best practice for change execution, including supporting the Index teams to continue moving from waterfall to agile for some of the change portfolio and support junior Index PM resources across locations as sounding board.

• As project manager for the STOXX business unit, you focus on planning, execution and successful closing increments of prioritized initiatives on the Index Roadmap assigned to you, producing adequate documentation and taking accountability for successful delivery. This includes predominantly the following activities:

• Stakeholder Management: Identify and coordinate key stakeholders including vendors and service providers where involved. Maintain effective communication with stakeholders to achieve results, manage expectations and provide project updates.

• Resource Allocation: Gather and coordinate Allocation of resources, both human and technical, to execute migration tasks.

• Budget Management: Gather and coordinate Preparation and tracking of project budget, Monitor expenses and control costs throughout the project.

• Risk Management: Gather and coordinate potential risks and issues related to the migration.

• Quality Assurance/Project Status reports: Share reporting around the adherence of migration is executed with agreed quality, timelines and adherence to industry best practices. Maintain project documentation, including project plans, status reports, and documentation of configurations and changes through a Agile supporting tool chain. Generate and distribute regular project status reports to stakeholders.

• Impact: The role will be responsible guiding the creation of capabilities to enable the ISS STOXX index business to meet its business plan.

Qualification:

• Proven experience (10+ years) in project management roles and working with Agile methodologies in the financial services or technology sector

• Project management and Agile certification (e.g., Certified ScrumMaster, PMP, PRINCE2)

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Engineering, Business, or related field;

• Previous exposure to and understanding of the index value chain and ecosystem as well as market data and analytics solutions

• Proficiency in project management tools and software, strong understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with diverse teams and stakeholders.

• Analytical mindset with proficiency in data-driven decision-making and problem-solving.

• Strategic thinker with a track record of driving innovation and delivering results in a fast-paced environment.

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What You Can Expect from Us

Our people are the moving force behind our work. We are committed to building a culture that values diverse skills, perspectives, and experiences. If you have the skills, passion, and drive to help us bring clarity and transparency to capital markets, we want to work with you.

Together, we can grow your career in an environment that fuels creativity, drives innovation, and has real impact.

About ISS STOXX

ISS STOXX delivers world-class research, data, and technology solutions that empower capital market participants to pursue their visions with confidence. Our expertise spans indices, corporate governance, sustainability, cyber risk, and fund intelligence, giving clients the tools they need to uncover opportunities, manage risks, and navigate evolving regulations. We are made up of 4,000 professionals operating across 20 countries and serving approximately 5,000 clients, including many of the world’s leading institutional investors. Our scale and reach give us deep market knowledge, while our innovative methodologies allow us to offer our clients tailored insights that drive impact and success.

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ISS STOXX is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, color, ethnicity, creed, religion, sex, age, height, weight, citizenship status, national origin, social origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, pregnancy status, marital status, familial status, mental or physical disability, veteran status, military service or status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law (referred to as “protected status”). All activities including, but not limited to, recruiting and hiring, recruitment advertising, promotions, performance appraisals, training, job assignments, compensation, demotions, transfers, terminations (including layoffs), benefits, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment, are and will be administered on a non-discriminatory basis, consistent with all applicable federal, state, and local requirements.