Senior Project Manager

Company: Sustainalytics provides high-quality, analytical environmental, social and governance (ESG) research, ratings and data to institutional investors and companies that help them identify, understand, and manage ESG-driven risks and opportunities. Our mission is to provide the insights required to make more informed decisions that lead to a more just and sustainable global economy.

Team: The team sets the vision, priority setting and business requirements of Research platforms and research-focused (smart) technology applications.  The team will release new analyst platforms(database) to the research teams to reduce costs, improve quality, speed and agility of the research process.

Role: The Senior Project Manager will be part of the Analyst tools (Research Database) pillar of the Digital Transformation Team within the ESG Research division. It acts as a liaison between multiple research teams and digital product managers/owners in the IT team. The candidate will be able to work collaboratively with all teams to coordinate the releases of (new) analyst databases. The candidate should successfully releases new technology solutions with the help of IT team.

Responsibilities:

• Sets the vision for analyst databases across research teams together with other digital transformation managers of the Research Team  
• Acts as a liaison between Digital Product Managers/Owners, the Digital Innovation Team (IT team) and Research Teams on the roadmap planning, scope management and sprint planning
• Contributes to delivering the analyst databases agenda through collecting ideas to design, enhance or redesign analyst databases by overseeing roadmap from the business side
• Contributes towards monitoring the health of analyst databases and assesses the ongoing business benefits
• Collects, reviews and prioritizes incoming items for IT partners, specifying business requirements (together with business analysts). Prepares decision taking processes in cases there are several courses of action possible
• Communicates digital vision and monthly progress on the technology roadmap to senior leaders in the Sustainalytics ESG research division
• Responsible for release management of analyst database. Candidate plans, coordinates, manages and schedules releases in close collaboration with IT partners
• Supports research teams with assessing the impacts of new digital solutions, conducting user acceptance test and successfully integrating these in research processes
• Creates change materials and notifies all relevant business partners on or prior to release
• Acts as a technology ambassador and coordinates change management initiatives
• Manages and mentor’s business analyst(s) as appropriate

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree
• 8+ years’ experience in IT-related roles, with proven track record of either business analysis or release management
• 2+ years’ experience in people management is a plus
• Understanding of programming languages (Java/SQL/C#)
• Experience with project/process planning tools (Jira, Jira Align) with strong project management skills, sets clear priorities and is result oriented
• Demonstrated passion for sustainability

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to engage/connect and build effective relations at different levels, while managing competing interests