Senior Manager, IT Project Management (18-month contract)

Manages the S2C implementation or assigned phases through the Club's project lifecycle, covering planning, governance, reporting, risk and issue management, dependency management, testing readiness, implementation and handover. It sits within the IT Change Department, which is responsible for the successful delivery of all IT change initiatives using agile or waterfall methodologies. The department is supported by the IT Change Management Office, which oversees the process to ensure efficiency and effectiveness, and covers change initiative delivery, change management office, quality assurance, release management, portfolio management and PDLC governance.

• Manage the S2C implementation or assigned phases through the Club's project lifecycle, including planning, governance, reporting, risk/issue management, dependency management, testing readiness, implementation and handover.
• Develop and maintain the integrated project plan, milestones, budget, resource plan, dependencies and critical path, ensuring delivery against agreed scope, schedule, cost and quality objectives.
• Take ownership of stakeholders' communication and relationship management across lines of Business, e.g. Procurement, Finance, Legal, and IT e.g. enterprise systems, application architecture, cyber security, and external vendors, ensuring timely decisions and clear accountability.
• Coordinate the selected implementation partners and relevant external application vendors, while maintaining clear roles and responsibilities on project governance and execution between HKJC and various vendors.
• Oversee various project dependencies, e.g. integration and data migration, and manage communication of cross-system activities involving Oracle Finance, Maximo, or other related Club applications.
• Manage PDLC governance with timely delivery of required documentation for reviews, approvals and acceptance evidence in order to ensure the Club's project governance and standards are fulfilled.
• Coordinate SIT/SAT/UAT readiness and defect governance with the vendor, system assurance team, business users and other related application teams.
• Prepare project management reporting and updates, funding and resource plan, scope/impact assessments and recommendations for decision-making.
• Identify and escalate any risks and issues identified in delivery, commercials, architecture, integration, data, security and operations that may affect overall project delivery.
• Support production readiness, cutover governance, hyper-care and transition to BAU support.

• University degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Finance or a related discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of system implementation project experience.
• Practical knowledge of procurement (S2C) process and related platform, enterprise integration, APIs/interfaces, data migration, IAM, testing and SaaS implementation.
• Hands-on experience managing project scope, schedule, resources, risks, dependencies, vendors and senior stakeholders.
• Solid experience managing external system integrators, software vendors and cross-functional internal application teams.
• Experience delivering complex system integration and data-migration programmes.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Microsoft 365 and project planning/reporting tools.

• Project Management Professional certification such as PMP or PRINCE2 Practitioner.
• Scrum or Agile framework certification.
• ITIL Foundation.
• End-to-end delivery experience of medium- to large-scale IT or enterprise application transformation delivery.
• Extensive knowledge and experience with Oracle Finance / Oracle EBS integration and IBM Maximo integration.

• Competitive benefits package.
• Dynamic working environment.
• Development opportunities.

The Club is Hong Kong's largest single taxpayer and one of the city's major employers, and its Charities Trust is one of the world's leading charity donors.