Project Specialist

Title: Project Specialist

Location: Vashi, Navi Mumbai

Company: Morningstar is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. We offer a wide variety of products and solutions that serve market participants of all kinds, including individual and institutional investors in public and private capital markets, financial advisors, asset managers, retirement plan providers and sponsors, and issuers of securities.
Morningstar India has been a Great Place to Work-certified company for the past eight consecutive years.

The Group: 

Morningstar’s Research group provides independent analysis on individual securities, funds, markets, and portfolios. The Research group also provides data on hundreds of thousands of investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on millions of equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar is one of the largest independent sources of fund, equity, and credit data and research in the world, and our advocacy for investors’ interests is the foundation of our company. 

The Role: 

The Managed Investment Data (MID) team is looking for a knowledgeable, enthusiastic, creative, and results-driven candidate to join it is Project Management team as the Data Project and Training Specialist.  The team’s mandate is to drive standardization and sharing of project management methodology, framework, tools and techniques, best practices across global MID, and manage the implementation of key data projects.  Thisis a role in our Mumbai MID Team. In this role, you will work with global MID data team, content team, regional center/local team, data collection tech team, Quality and Transformation team, to develop and implement new initiative, integration or enhancement to MID database. Meanwhile, this role works to identify and carry out initiatives to support employees’ professional growth, by collaborating with LocalTalent Management team. This role is based in Mumbai and reports functionally to the Associate Data Director of MID Program and Product Management team based in Chicago, and matrix to the MID Data Director, based in Mumbai.

Shift : General

Responsibilities: 

• Drive standardization and sharing of project management methodology, framework, tools and techniques, best practices across global MID.

• Elicit sufficient information to define specific, explicit and feasible goal and solutions. Lead project team to make a feasible project plan and to provide periodical deliveries. 

• Monitor and control the project progress and handle changes/risks to ensure the project’s timely and high-quality output and deliveries. 

• Work closely with senior leadership team to organize and oversee overall project managements.

• Provide consulting supports on project running to junior project leader/members to manage the project. 

• Coach, mentor and train members on developing project management competency and how to lead a project.

• Lead and drive people development initiatives and activities in MID, by serving as a point person to collect feedback from employee and leadership team about people development needs, plan and implement people development events.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher.

• 5+ years of professional work experience at various levels of seniority.

• Around 2-3 years of experience leading and managing enterprise-wide or significant changes in Project Management positions with strong project management skills. PMP, CSM, CSPO certificate is preferred.

• Good understanding of Morningstar business and data organization, passionate with people, and self-motivated to manage talent development projects and grow his/her career along leadership path.

• Rapidly adapt and respond to changes in environment and priorities.

• Proactive planning and organizing skills for uncertainties with positive attitude.

• Strong communication and influencing skills. Ability to effectively communicate with local and international teams.

• Great business reporting and presentation skill in a global organization.

• Able to contribute to global projects by coordinating with the global operation teams, working across different time zones. 

• Good coaching and mentoring skills.

• Knowledge with databases (SQL) is a plus.

Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.