Franklin Templeton Investments Hiring for FTI Project Manager at Hyderabad, Telangana Full Time

At Franklin Templeton, everything we do is focused on one thing – delivering better client outcomes. We do that by partnering closely with our clients, assessing their strategic needs, and identifying the solution or solutions that can meet the challenge. Over 12,000 employees working in 34 countries around the world are dedicated to servicing investment solutions for our clients in more than 160 countries. For more than 70 years our success has been a direct result of the talent, skills and persistence of our people, and we are looking for qualified candidates to join our team.

What is the FTI Project Manager – Virtual Channels group responsible for?

Manage projects to accelerate achievement of business iterative values. One who shapes, drives, and implements innovative approaches and solutions to achieve desired business outcomes. Partners and consults with various business and technical partners to deliver business strategy and objectives.

What are the ongoing responsibilities of a FTI Project Manager?

Project Delivery (50%): Takes on the responsibility of ensuring the business is on time, on budget, and company project methodology and always adheres to compliance. Tracks budget/spending at a project level, anticipates issues early on and works closely with product owner. Sets project expectations and strategy. contributes to solutions options and supports business partner decision-making to minimize the amount of project investment divergence from target outcomes. Partners with project teams to identify opportunities for creating reusable enterprise artifacts. Leads project teams to identify measurable business value to ensure metrics are gathered and business objectives are realized. Leads project team to continually focus on business strategy/vision and prioritizes based on delivery of business value. Manages through ambiguity. manages and resolves conflict, issues, and risks to remove barriers within the project and team, while continuing momentum on initiatives. Identifies and manages inter-dependencies within projects and delivers integrated responses, as appropriate. Leads the iteration of high-value solutions using the test and learn approach with business and technology partners; recommends alternative solutions, as appropriate.

Project Communication & Administration (25%): Develops and presents project communications to influence key internal and external stakeholders to focus on transparent rapid business value delivery. Ensures project alignment—with shorter iterations and faster or reduced time to market. Understands customer journey in order to guide and deliver business outcomes. Develops appropriate communication plans for influencing multiple decision makers; secures commitment for project decisions; advises project teams to communicate solution vision and priorities.

Leadership (15%): Motivates and inspires teams to coalesce and commit to shared purpose. Drives team effort and promotes team coordination. Creates a collaborative environment for distributed or virtual teams. Provides guidance, feedback, coaching, and mentoring to project team members.

Consultant (10%): Challenges, when appropriate, to drive the initiatives and project team forward. Consults with teams, stakeholders, and business leaders to identify and resolve emerging business needs. Collaborates with business/technology partners and leaders to identify value drivers. Provides partners and leaders with an accurate view of challenges to adoption; recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns

What ideal qualifications, skills & experience would help someone to be successful?

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

Min 5-8 years related experience

Experience working in a large-scale multi-national firm essential; Financial Services industry a plus.

Experience managing technical implementation

Experience with vendor management

Understanding of investment business

Business Software – Microsoft Office

Project Management Tool – Confluence

Project Management Tool – Jira

Testing – Application and User Testing

Certified Disciplined Agilist – Disciplined Agile Consortium

Project Management Professional – PMI

Job Level – Individual Contributor

Shift Work Timings – 2:00 PM – 11:00 PM IST

What makes Franklin Templeton Investments unique?

In addition to the dynamic and professional environment at Franklin Templeton, we strive to ensure that our employees have access to a competitive and valuable set of Total Rewards —the mix of both monetary and non-monetary rewards provided to you in recognition for your time, talents, efforts, and results.

Highlights of our benefits include:
Professional development growth opportunities through in-house classes and over 150 Web-based training courses

An educational assistance program to financially help employees seeking continuing education

Medical, Life and Personal Accident Insurance benefit for employees. Medical insurance also cover employee’s dependents (spouses, children and dependent parents)

Life insurance for protection of employees’ families

Personal accident insurance for protection of employees and their families

Personal loan assistance

Employee Stock Investment Plan (ESIP)

“Location specific benefits” as mentioned below

Onsite fitness center, recreation center, and cafeteria

Cricket grounds and gymnasium

Library

Health Center with doctor availability

HDFC ATM on the campus

Franklin Templeton Investments is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We invite you to visit us at Franklin Templeton Careers to learn more about our company and our career opportunities.

Franklin Templeton is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment. If you believe that you need a workplace arrangement to search for, or apply for, one of our positions please send an email to [email protected] . In your email, please include the arrangement you are requesting and the job title and job number you are applying for. We will review the request and make a best effort to enact the arrangement. It may take up to three business days to receive a response to your request. Please note that only requests for arrangements will receive a response.