General Description

The Project Manager will assist in managing, scoping, scheduling, and executing critical work within our dynamic investment team. This role will partner with the Business (Program) Manager to ensure effective project planning, risk mitigation, issue resolution, and seamless communications over the life of the assigned projects. This role will also be responsible for overseeing the operations of 10 concurrently managed individual projects by coordinating timing and resources within the broader program guidelines. They will report progress updates including milestone achievements and unexpected setbacks to the Business Manager who oversees the entirety of the work accomplished on the Investment Strategy team. This role will have a tactical focus on execution and managing the functional elements of assigned projects such as meeting deadlines, assigning tasks, and completing deliverables. They will be the go-to resource for anything project-related and contribute where investment subject matter expertise is needed.

The mission of the Project Manager is to facilitate projects across a growing 60 person, multi-function investment team. Projects include client work (onboarding custom models, complex analysis, and related external meetings), thought leadership and marketing work, and investment product development and oversight. This role is highly cross-functional and will require a strategic thinker comfortable with ensuring cross-departmental alignment, building tools, processes, while achieving the department's goals. This individual is driven by delivering on time and under budget" and is knowledgeable about technology usage, project processes, and relationship building to create an optimal environment to successfully execute.

Primary Responsibilities

- Drive effective teamwork, prioritization, communication, collaboration, and commitment across multiple groups with competing priorities while maintaining strong business relationships.

- Effectively and efficiently lead large complex cross-functional projects while managing implementation activities for concurrent workstreams.

- Ability to support multiple projects concurrently, react quickly to new information, and ensure projects remain updated and relevant to achieve the desired outcome.

- Demonstrated ability to compose and deliver persuasive presentations and business updates including project metrics, deliverable timelines, and status to our department, cross-departments and as necessary, senior leadership.

- Anticipate bottlenecks, identify risk, provide escalation management, prioritization and balancing the business needs versus technical constraints.

- Demonstrated ability to read and interpret technical information, compose clear and concise written communication, and create appropriate business requirements and acceptance criteria.

- Ensure consistency with and application of department standards, processes, and controls across projects.

- Power user of the team's technology stack who partners with our Platform Solutions team on recommended workflow enhancements.

- Design, build, and maintain reporting and dashboards to help plan, manage, and complete work in a timely manner.

- Other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, with applicable project management experience.

- 5 years of experience managing projects required, with proven ability to manage multiple related and concurrent workstreams with high attention to detail.

- Must have a background and strong understanding of the systems development life cycle and expertise in each phase of program/project cycle: planning, discovery, execution, and closing.

- Excellent organizational, listening, presentation, written and verbal communication skills.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to multitask and handle interruptions.

- Must take initiative, have a passion for driving efficiency, and have a demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative team environment.

- Proven ability as a liaison between technical teams and business visionaries - not a go-between but rather a facilitator and someone who can capture the vision from both points of view into a cohesive implementation plan.

- Self-starter, ability to quickly pivot and exercise good judgement and decision making. Not afraid to get involved in complex issues to drive timely problem solving, with a can-do attitude.

- Prior experience using workflow management technology, preferably Workfront; and demonstrated ability and willingness to learn and use new technology.

- PMP or Project Management certification is a plus.

- Financial Services background. Client-facing or operational experience is a plus.

Parametric believes each member of our organization makes a significant contribution to our success. That contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, this job description is designed to outline primary duties and qualifications. It is our expectation that every member of our team will offer his/her/their services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of our client services.

Salary range for the position: $70,000 - 150,000/Yr. The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award. The successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the relevant business unit's incentive compensation plan, which also may include a discretionary bonus component. Morgan Stanley offers a full spectrum of benefits, including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave consistent with state and local law, Parental Leave and 20 Vacation Days annually), 10 Paid Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our employees. Please visit mybenefits.morganstanley.com to learn more about our benefit offerings.

Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees. It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet