The posting
Eastspring is a global asset manager with Asia at its core. We create a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our colleagues, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and in exchange, we support our people's career ambitions. We pledge to make Eastspring a place where you can Connect, Grow and Succeed.
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Role Purpose:
The role supports the organization’s transformation agenda by managing and driving high-priority projects and initiatives across the business. This includes transformation initiatives that create profit impact, strengthen organizational structure, improve operating effectiveness, or respond to legal, regulatory, and governance requirements. The position acts as a central coordinator and facilitator between business functions and technology teams, helping to remove obstacles, propose practical solutions, and ensure critical projects are delivered against agreed objectives, timelines, and governance expectations. The role also works with business functions to coordinate the collection of business impact, financial projection, and business requirements for project prioritization purposes, and submits the consolidated business requirements to technology teams for IT impact assessment. The role also provides regular updates and escalation to senior management on the status, risks, issues, and progress of key projects.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE:
1. Strategic Project and Initiative Management
- Manage and drive priority projects and initiatives across the organisation that are important to the transformation agenda, commercial impact, structural improvement, or regulatory and governance requirements.
- Define project scope, milestones, dependencies, owners, and delivery plans in collaboration with relevant business functions and technology teams.
- Monitor progress, follow up on key actions, and ensure critical initiatives are completed in line with agreed objectives, timelines, and governance standards.
2. Business Facilitation and Problem Resolution
- Act as a central point to collect information, clarify requirements, and facilitate alignment among business stakeholders involved in key projects.
- Coordinate with business functions to gather business impact, financial projection, and other prioritisation inputs from relevant business owners, without being responsible for preparing those inputs directly.
- Facilitate project prioritisation discussions by consolidating business inputs and clarifying the expected business impact, urgency, dependencies, and financial considerations of proposed initiatives.
- Identify issues, constraints, and root causes when business units encounter challenges or are unable to resolve project-related matters independently.
- Propose practical solutions, options, and escalation paths to help projects move forward and achieve the intended business outcomes.
3. Business and Technology Coordination
- Serve as a liaison between business functions and technology teams to translate business needs into actionable project requirements and delivery plans.
- Submit consolidated business requirements to technology teams to support IT impact assessment, including system, resource, timeline, dependency, and delivery implications.
- Coordinate discussions, decisions, issue resolution, and stakeholder engagement to ensure projects progress smoothly across functions.
- Support change readiness, user adoption, and communication activities where projects impact operating models, systems, processes, or ways of working.
4. Governance, Risk and Regulatory Alignment
- Ensure key projects are managed with appropriate governance, documentation, controls, and alignment to internal policies and approval requirements.
- Identify and escalate risks, issues, and dependencies related to transformation, profit-impacting, structural, legal, regulatory, or governance-related initiatives.
- Maintain accurate project records, status updates, decision logs, and reporting materials to support oversight and auditability.
5. Executive Reporting and Stakeholder Engagement
- Work closely with senior stakeholders, business functions, technology, compliance, risk, and other relevant teams to drive delivery of priority initiatives.
- Prepare and provide regular progress updates to management on the status, risks, issues, dependencies, and key decisions required for important projects.
- Act as a trusted coordinator to ensure stakeholders remain aligned and project execution remains focused on target outcomes.
QUALIFICATIONS and EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor’s or Master Degree in Engineering, Science, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related filed
· Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in Project Management, Business Transformation, Digital Project Management, or cross-functional initiative delivery
TECHNICAL/ FUNCTIONAL SKILLS:
- Business Transformation and Initiative Management
- Project Management
- Communication Skills
- Stakeholder Management and Executive Reporting
Eastspring is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.
