FTI IT Project Manager

At Franklin Templeton, we’re driving our industry forward by developing new and innovative ways to help our clients achieve their investment goals. Our dynamic and diversified firm spans asset management, wealth management, and fintech, offering many ways to help investors make progress toward their goals. Our talented teams working around the globe bring expertise that’s both broad and unique. From our welcoming, inclusive, and flexible culture to our global and diverse business, we offer opportunities not only to help you reach your potential but also to contribute to our clients’ achievements.

Come join us in delivering better outcomes for our clients around the world!

We are unable to offer visa sponsorship/transfer for this position.

What is the PMO Team responsible for?

The PMO supports the Franklin Templeton enterprise (i.e., Sales, Marketing, Service and Operations, Investment Management, Back Office Operations, Infrastructure Services, Investment Management, etc.) in delivering capabilities to achieve the organization’s strategic vision.

What are the ongoing responsibilities of an FTI Technical Project Manager?

The FTT PMO seeks a dynamic Technical Project Manager to lead high impact projects for Franklin Templeton, working on strategic projects which generally involve multiple business units or the entire enterprise, with moderate to high risk and complexity. In line with our strategic direction, a successful candidate is well-versed in Agile techniques and exhibits an agility mindset.

• Acts as the single point of accountability to plan, direct, and coordinate large-scale, enterprise-wide projects ensuring goals and objectives are accomplished successfully, meeting customer/business needs
• As a part of this global team, the Technical Project Manager manages multiple projects of various size and scope, working with stakeholders from technology and various lines of business to achieve quality results
• Manages the implementation of projects for the enterprise from setting up and directing project schedules, iterations, and budgets to monitoring initiatives through delivery or completion
• Participates in solution-delivery continuous improvement activities and communities of practice to address ongoing needs for the project professional community
• Influences and encourages programs to focus on rapid value delivery, leveraging agile, iterative development practices and agility techniques 
• Appropriately tailors communication to target audience, ranging from team discussions to executives, in a culturally-elevant style
• Exhibits FTT’s core brand behaviors of being outcome-oriented, accountable, empowered, growth-minded, and strategic

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

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• Min 5-8 years related technology project management experience
• Agile certification – Certified Disciplined Agilist or Practitioner or Scrum certifications
• Practical Agile delivery experience
• Experience working in a large-scale multi-national firm essential; Financial Services industry a plus

Franklin Templeton offers employees a competitive and valuable range of total rewards—monetary and non-monetary—designed to support the whole person and to recognize their time, talents, and results. Along with base compensation, other compensation is offered such as a discretionary bonus, 401k plan, health insurance, and other perks. There are several factors taken into consideration in making compensation decisions including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. At Franklin Templeton, we apply a total reward philosophy where all aspects of compensation and benefits are taken into consideration in determining compensation. We expect the salary for this position to range between $105,000 and $143,000.

What makes Franklin Templeton 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:

• Three weeks paid time off the first year
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with 85% company match on your pre-tax and/or Roth contributions, up to the IRS limits
• Employee Stock Investment Program
• Tuition Assistance Program
• Purchase of company funds with no sales charge

We believe that being a good corporate citizen is good business. To us, corporate citizenship means being accountable, serving our clients, being an employer of choice, managing our environmental impact, and supporting our communities. An emphasis on corporate citizenship is embedded in our culture and values, and is an important element of how we achieve success.

We are also committed to your learning and development with resources focused around Experience, Exposure, and Education, to help you achieve your professional development goals.

Franklin Templeton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, or gender expression, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation. We invite you to visit us at Franklin Templeton Careers to learn more about our company, career opportunities and recruitment process.

Franklin Templeton is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment. If you believe that you need an accommodation to search for, or apply for, one of our positions please send an email to accommodations@FranklinTempleton.com . In your email, please include the accommodation you are requesting and the job title and job number you are applying for. It may take up to three business days to receive a response to your request. Please note that only requests for accommodations will receive a response.

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