Product Delivery Manager

**Responsibilities**:- Coordinates activities of the project team, identifies necessary resources and develops schedules to meet completion deadlines.- Verifies project team adherence to control and risk implementations as well as standards and process changes.- Determines scope and impact of project risks and issues; raises and resolves issues.- Applies good understanding of concepts and procedures within own IT project leadership area to resolve issues.- Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of how areas of IT project leadership collectively integrate to contribute to achieving business goals.- Provides evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual information in complicated and unique situations.- Directly impacts the IT project leadership area through shared responsibility for delivery of end results and contribution to planning, budget management and formulation of procedures; influences resource planning.- Persuades and influences others through communication and diplomacy skills; may negotiate with external parties.**Qualifications**:- 5-8 years experience in an IT project leadership role with commensurate people management experience.**Education**:- Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experienceThis job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed.Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.**UNCTIONS / MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES**The Product Delivery Manager will support and help in activities between teams in the league, facilitate and support the road map defined by Tech Owner and Business Owners needed to meet business objectives, manages risks and resolves issues, and ensures adherence to control and management metrics in alignment with Citi's governance while ensuring the value delivery of the league.Manage the execution of technology products being accountable for maintaining the delivery train within an Agile league.This practice should be carried out within agreed conditions and according to current methodology and aligned to best practicesEnsure SDLC adherenceOwn the engagement and completion of organizational and league external processes, ensuring that the responsible teams fully adhere with governance requirementsEscalate to assigned portfolio manager issues related to league external process and impediments that affect the overall executionSupport Demand process for Release changes such as moves, holds, and cancelOrganizational Governance for Cross Product standalone initiatives (when applicable)Manage Allocations in corresponding tool based on input of the Tech Owner team to assign the time and reflect actuals.Support finance related activities / manage project expenses according to the league governance: IEP Management, understanding of assigned capacity (hours/budget), Financial plan, Forecast and actuals monitoring, etc.Responsible to consolidate at product/project level the individual Implementation plans, components log and Minute by Minutes plans, etc.Responsible to report the approval progress for the Change Records listed in the consolidated Implementation plan.Escalate with CR owner in case of rejection from any group.Responsible to coordinate that required checkpoints are agreed and established with different cells on the Implementation Plan/Minute by Minute during project release window.Identify and manage risks throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that the teams involved in the project participate actively in the process (identify, evaluate, define, and implement mitigation plans and communicate) and that escalation is conducted whenever necessary.Keep project management tools up to date and aligned with methodology requirements to minimize information quality issues.**Requirements**:6 to 10 Years of relevant experience highly desirable in the following key items:- PMP, Discipline Agile Delivery (DAD), SAfe, or equivalent certification (Highly desirable)- Experience managing complex projects (with a value between 1MM and 5MM USD)- Strong Overall knowledge of software development methodologies (i.e., agile, waterfall using SDLC)- Methodologies and tools (SDLC, Planview, OPPM, Demand Management, Release Management, Information Security, Testing Quality Assurance)- Experience working in technology environments- Financial Services (Banking) industry knowledge preferred- Project financial management- Resources Management- Business issues resolution- Leadership- Strategic vision- Focus on results- Decision making- Fast Learner- Negotiation and conflict resolution- Service attitude- Proactive, Independent- Disciplined- Executive Communication and Reporting- Experience in transformation from Waterfall to Agile way of work.- High level of written and spoken English.Capable of maintaining business/technical conversations in English highly desirable- **Job Family Group**:Technology- **Job Family**:Technology Project Management- **Time Type**:Full tim