OpenAPI Program Manager

About Inetum, Positive digital flow:

Inetum is an IT services company that provides digital services and solutions and a global group that helps companies and institutions to get the most out of digital flow. The Inetum group is committed towards all these players to innovate, continue to adapt and stay ahead. With its multi-expert profile, Inetum offers its clients a unique combination of proximity, a sectorial organization and solutions of industrial quality. Operating in more than 26 countries, the Group has nearly 27,000 employees and in 2020 generated revenues of €1,965 billion.

Inetum Romania is an important player in the IT services and solutions market in our country, with over 15 years of activity. It is a stable, growing and profitable company with over 500 employees who provides IT consulting services, infrastructure and software development assistance, digital services implementation and support.

In an Agile format, our teams work on cloud initiatives, application development, business intelligence, automation and digitalization projects that contribute to the profit and evolution of our clients. The diversity of our projects offers team members the opportunity for learning and growth. The company had a turnover of 20 million EURO in 2021.

Required Experience:
• 5+ years of direct (recent) experience in a similar role in an insurance, financial services or banking institutions with Fixed Price / Scope implementation.
• Mandatory knowledge on JIRA and the Microsoft suite (Excel, PowerPoint).
• Lending or Trade industry knowledge preferred.
• PMP certification preferred.
• Experience in implementation and support of complex enterprise software systems.
• Thorough understanding of project management methodologies and tools available.
• Customer driven and have the ability to work within a team environment.
• Strong organization and presentation skills.
• English speaker.

Reporting to the head of PMO, the OpenAPI Program Manager is responsible for ensuring that the projects are executed in line with all contractual obligations to the internal stakeholders and/or clients in a professional, cost-effective and timely manner, ensuring that the company achieves (or improves upon) the planned financial return from the project; within this objective, you should give the client value for money. The OpenAPI Program Manager is responsible, in the Platform Line of Business, to orchestrate planning and delivery of the building blocks of the Platform (eg APIs, SPIs) in relation with the Products Line of Business delivering these.
Hence, the role of the OpenAPI Program Manager is to plan, execute, and finalize projects according to agreed deadlines and within the client’s budget. This includes coordinating resources and efforts of consultants and/or third-party contractors in order to deliver projects according to plan or apply strong change control management as required. The OpenAPI program manager will also define the project’s objectives and oversee quality control throughout its life cycle. At all times establish and maintain good working relationships with the client, and reinforce the company’s reputation. The OpenAPI program manager is also financially responsible on projects they manage. The OpenAPI program manager should be product agnostic, however, they may have specialties in certain business areas.

Responsibilities & Deliverables:
Your deliverables as a OpenAPI Program Manager will include, but are not limited to, the
following:
• Produce and maintain a project and quality plan, and conduct the project accordingly.
Developing full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
• Establish effective and appropriate project governance for the project.
• Manage the project staff and other resources assigned to the project.
• Report effectively on project progress, problems encountered and their solutions by means of a
project status report and also ad-hoc reports as appropriate.
• Direct and manage project development from beginning to end.
• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with
senior management and stakeholders.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely
and clear fashion.
• Liaise with project stakeholders on an on-going basis.
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
• Ensure proper financial management of the project including tracking planned hour variances
and Estimate at Completion (EAC).
• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
• Track project milestones and deliverables.
• Control project financials thru an effective change control process and efficient resources
management.
• Proactively manage changes in project scope, working with the client and internal project
teams.
• Ensure proper risk management by documenting all risks and ensuring effective mitigation
strategy. Devise contingency plans as necessary.
• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and contractors, and influence
them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
• Develop or enhance best practices and tools for project execution and management.