The position involves managing strategic programs, ensuring operational excellence, overseeing project interdependencies, and driving change management. It requires strong stakeholder management, project planning, and monitoring skills.
Description and Requirements
Job Description - UM PPM Support
Position Title:
Unit Manager, PPM
Reports to (Responsibility Level):
Sr. Manager/Service Delivery Leader - Operations
Supervises:
NA
Location:
MGOSC MCC1
Global Grade:
Grade 11
Complexity: OSTG
PID/s Load Mapping:
Position Summary
This position will have direct responsibility, as a PPM representative, for the day- to -day program management of strategic programs. Ensuring operational excellence through the identification, prioritization, and implementation of projects programs that meets strategic, tactical, market, and customer demands. Identifies and resolves project interdependencies, overlaps and integration concerns across the portfolio. Develops and implements a consistently deployed approach to multi-disciplinary project management. Drive change management and manage changes including changes to business processes, systems and technology, job roles and organization structures.
Job Responsibilities
Education, Technical Skills & Other Critical Requirement
Education
Graduates or Post-Graduates with strong communication skills
Experience
Technical Skills
Other Requirements (licenses, certifications, specialized training - if required)
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2024 "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services.
At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
Job Description - UM PPM Support
Position Title:
Unit Manager, PPM
Reports to (Responsibility Level):
Sr. Manager/Service Delivery Leader - Operations
Supervises:
NA
Location:
MGOSC MCC1
Global Grade:
Grade 11
Complexity: OSTG
PID/s Load Mapping:
Position Summary
This position will have direct responsibility, as a PPM representative, for the day- to -day program management of strategic programs. Ensuring operational excellence through the identification, prioritization, and implementation of projects programs that meets strategic, tactical, market, and customer demands. Identifies and resolves project interdependencies, overlaps and integration concerns across the portfolio. Develops and implements a consistently deployed approach to multi-disciplinary project management. Drive change management and manage changes including changes to business processes, systems and technology, job roles and organization structures.
Job Responsibilities
- Assist / Prepare Management reports / dashboard view
- Manage multiple stakeholders across regions, as needed
- Steer project meetings / calls to a logical conclusion
- Ensure projects are completed in accordance with all Risk, and other relevant firm-wide guidelines
- Create and govern project plans, work closely with regional stakeholders
- Monitor projects on an ongoing basis, evaluate progress and quality, manage issue resolution process, and raise issue/risks as necessary
- Monitor tasks on Critical Path of the project/program
- Schedule / Host / draft minutes and Publish minutes for various meetings within the stipulated timelines
Education, Technical Skills & Other Critical Requirement
Education
Graduates or Post-Graduates with strong communication skills
Experience
- Minimum 5-7 years of experience with 2+ years of relevant experience in Program & Project Management/ PPM role
- 1 year of Supervisory experience required in case of people management role
Technical Skills
- Good Analytical and Problem-Solving skills
- Good understanding of Project Management Concepts and Project Life cycle
- Good understanding of MS-Office including MS-Excel, MS PowerPoint and MS word
- Excellent understanding of MS Project
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to clearly communicate/articulate technical and functional issues with conclusions and recommendations to Leadership/stakeholders (via weekly status report)
- Should be good in excel reporting (knowledge of graphs, pivots, macros, VLOOKUP, etc. is an advantage)
- Experience managing/working with geographically distributed and culturally diverse working groups with strong intra-team management and coaching skills
Other Requirements (licenses, certifications, specialized training - if required)
- Project management certifications are preferred
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2024 "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services.
At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
Top Skills
Ms-Excel
Ms-Office
Ms-Powerpoint
Ms-Project
Ms-Word
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