Key Responsibilities
1. Transact Project Portfolio Management
- Maintain a consolidated view of all WITT projects and initiatives impacting Transact.
- Build and maintain the overall Transact roadmap, including key milestones, releases and dependencies.
- Ensure that each initiative has a clearly defined scope, owner, planning, dependencies and delivery target.
- Identify conflicts or overlaps between projects and facilitate prioritization when required.
- Monitor the impact of new demands and changes on the existing Transact roadmap.
2. End-to-End Delivery Coordination
- Follow projects from initial assessment through design, build, testing, deployment and post-production follow-up.
- Coordinate the different contributors involved in Transact deliveries.
- Ensure dependencies between Transact and other WITT streams/assets are identified early and actively managed.
- Challenge delivery plans and ensure that commitments are realistic and properly secured.
- Escalate blockers and deviations when necessary and drive remediation plans.
3. Governance & Reporting
- Establish and maintain a clear governance framework for the Transact perimeter.
- Prepare consolidated reporting covering delivery status, milestones, risks and issues, dependencies, decisions required, capacity constraints, key upcoming activities.
- Provide management with a single, reliable view of the Transact portfolio
- Organize and facilitate regular Transact project reviews with the relevant stakeholders.
4. Risk & Dependency Management
- Maintain a consolidated RAID log covering Risks, Actions, Issues and Dependencies.
- Identify critical dependencies across projects and WITT streams.
- Anticipate potential delivery bottlenecks.
- Ensure mitigation and recovery plans are defined, owned and followed.
- Escalate critical risks early enough to allow management decisions and corrective actions.
5. Release & Operational Readiness
- Coordinate Transact-related activities with the relevant WITT release and operational processes.
- Ensure production readiness is assessed before major deployments.
- Track operational prerequisites, cutover activities and post-go-live actions.
- Ensure that project deliveries properly transition into the operational model.
6. Stakeholder Management
Act as the main coordination point between the relevant stakeholders, including:
- WITT OPS,
- WITT IT streams,
- Business teams,
- Operations,
- Transact teams,
- Architecture,
- Testing teams,
- Release Management,
- Production / Support teams,
- external partners or vendors when applicable.
The PM is expected to connect the different teams and proactively resolve cross-stream topics, rather than simply reporting them.
Expected Deliverables
The Transact PM will maintain, at minimum:
- Transact master roadmap
- Consolidated project portfolio
- Milestone and delivery tracker
- RAID log
- Cross-stream dependency tracker
- Decision log
- Release / deployment calendar
- Management dashboard
- Weekly Transact status report
- Action tracker with owner and target date