Senior Project Manager

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 10 countries, and more than 160 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.

We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

The  Senior Project Manager is responsible the managing the end-to-end implementation of Avaloq’s on-premise and/or BPaaS/SaaS solutions with the following general responsibilities:

• Overall planning, execution and leadership of change the bank projects for Avaloq’s customers major global bank. Includes working with the required Avaloq units (Solution Architect / Consultants, Infrastructure, Support Services, Regional Banking Operations, customer representatives, etc) and partner resources, where applicable.to define project objectives and execute defined project plan.
• Preparing project budget and subsequently, commercial offers in close cooperation with the Avaloq Solution Architect / Consultants and Key Account Managers for their submission and negotiation with prospective and existing customers.
• Achieve defined objectives of the projects (scope, quality, time, budget, reporting, project staffing (internal Avaloq and external partners) and post project reviews).
• Consulting and coaching of the customer's project managers and team to leverage best practices and business processes reflected in Avaloq’s Banking Reference.
• Concurrently leading projects and support pre-sales offers to prospects.
• Ensures deliverables are timely and of good quality
   

• Proven track record as overall project leader in large projects (preferably involving the introduction of standard software solutions)
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business Economics, Engineering, or equivalent
• Project Management qualification from a leading accreditor
• Excellent communications and presentation skills
• Knowledge of the banking business and bank-related processes
• Negotiation skills and proven experience up to steering committee level
• Leadership experience involving interdisciplinary and multi-cultural teams
• Experience in international change the bank’s platform projects would be advantageous
• Persistent, assertive, resilient. Maintains an overview and can set priorities
• Must be able to adapt to changing work hours

It would be a real bonus if you have

PMP Certified

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.