PPM Senior Application Manager
Job Summary
Job Description
We are seeking a visionary innovator with a passion for financial services to manage the Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) application. The ideal candidate will ensure efficient support for business processes related to project planning, execution, and portfolio monitoring. Responsibilities include continuous improvement, functional support, and full accountability for the OpenText – PPM tool. This role involves gathering requirements, proposing system improvements, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring agreed service level agreements are met. You will also be responsible for system reliability, user training, creating documentation, and ensuring tool integration with other enterprise systems like SAP. Management of an international team is also a key aspect of this role.
Must have:
- At least five years of experience in project management or business analysis
- Master’s degree in STEM discipline
- Excellent knowledge of Project Management techniques and tools
- Excellent Italian and English language skills
- Knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, and reporting tools
- Good understanding of software architectures
- Familiarity with Agile or PMI methodologies
- Proactivity, autonomy, and results-oriented mindset
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines
Good to have:
- SAP module knowledge
- Availability to travel to Emilia Romagna
Perks:
- Permanent employment contract
6 skills required
Job Details
About us:
We’re visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation solutions, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, financial institutions, central banks, and governments. More than 40% of the world’s largest companies use our solutions. We’ve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.
At ION, we offer careers that provide many opportunities: To invent. To design. To collaborate. To build. To transform businesses and empower people around the world to do more, faster and better than before. Imagine what you can do and experience. This is where you can do your best work.
For the strengthening of our Project and Portfolio Management unit, we are looking for brilliant professionals with passion for innovation and financial services.
The ideal candidate will manage timely and effectively the Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) application, ensuring it efficiently supports business processes related to project planning, execution, and portfolio monitoring.
Your role:
Your key duties and responsibilities
· Ensuring correct management, continuous improvement and functional support
· Ensuring efficient supports to business portfolios planning, execution and monitoring
· Full accountability and knowledge of OpenText – PPM Project and Portfolio Management tool with all the related lifecycle phase, above which continuous maintenance, releases for bugs fixing and testing for new developments, including interactions and related communications with external supplier
· Effective collaboration with internal stakeholders in order to gather requirements, analyse potential needs and propose system improvements
· Granting of agreed SLA to external and internal customers with underlying system reliability and robust functioning together with user training & support
· Create and maintain functional and technical documentation for the tool.
· Ensure tool full integration with other enterprise system (such as SAP).
· Management of internal team, with resources located both in Italy and in Moldova
Other duties
We might ask you to perform other tasks and duties as your role expands.
Your skills, experience, and qualifications required.
· At least five years of proven experience in project management or in business analysis functions
· Master’s degree in STEM discipline (with honours)
· Excellent knowledge of Project Management techniques and related tools
· Excellent knowledge of the Italian and English language and ability to hold presentations
· Knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, SQL and reporting tools (e.g., Power BI).
· Good understanding of software architectures.
· Familiarity with Agile or PMI methodologies
· Proactivity, autonomy, and results-oriented mindset.
· With your “get things done” attitude you can prioritize, support, and track multiple tasks successfully while meeting deadlines in a constantly changing environment
· SAP module knowledge would be considered a plus
· Availability to travel to the company location in Emilia Romagna.
What we offer:
Permanent employment contract.
Location:
Milan
Important notes:
According to the Italian Law (L.68/99) please note that candidates from the disability list will be given priority.
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About The Company
We’re visionary innovators who are delivering mission-critical trading and workflow automation software to financial institutions, corporations, central banks, and governments. By combining our passion for automation with a strategic view on the industries we serve, we design solutions that improve decision-making, simplify complex processes, and empower people. Simply put, we help our customers do more, faster and better than before. We believe our investments in research and development are shaping the future of automation and enabling our customers to transform their business. And we embrace the power of community, working with each other and with our customers to succeed through a positive culture of continuous improvement.
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