Project Manager - London, UK

Nomis Solutions is the leader in providing profit-based pricing solutions to the financial services industries. Our solutions use state-of-the-art data mining and statistical analysis techniques to detect opportunities for price improvement through detailed analysis of historical data. Proprietary optimization techniques are used to determine how these opportunities can be implemented within a fast-moving and dynamic market environment. These opportunities have generated millions of dollars of benefits for leading banks and financial services companies worldwide. We have developed software solutions for unsecured consumer lending, auto lending, foreign-exchange sales, deposits and home equity lending and are currently developing solutions for other markets including credit cards, mortgage, and insurance.

For more information on Nomis please visit our web site at http://www.nomissolutions.com

We are looking for a talented Project Manager with strong analytical, project management, and customer relationship skills to help us deliver and support price optimization solutions for the financial services industry.

This position is located in London, UK.

Responsibilities:
As a member of Nomis Solutions’ Professional Services team, the Project Manager is responsible for managing implementation projects of Nomis’ price optimization software solutions and for overseeing the ongoing operational needs of customers using those software solutions in a production environment.

The Project Manager will supervise a team of business consultants, implementation consultants and modeling analysts in delivering Nomis’ price optimization software solutions to financial services customers on time and within budget while ensuring high customer satisfaction. In addition to standard project management skills such as planning, budgeting, resource assignment and risk management, the Project Manager at Nomis must possess the appropriate business and analytical experience in order to manage a highly skilled team, make difficult trade-off decisions and reach compromises with the customer, confidently communicate project decisions in a way that maintains customer satisfaction and independently represent the company.

At completion of the initial system implementation for a customer, the Project Manager continues oversight of the business and technical aspects of the customer relationship and accesses a team of specialists in handling the following types of tasks:

Assist Customer Support with issue diagnosis and resolution
Provide end-user support and training to the customer
Upgrade products to the next maintenance release
Monitor the performance of the predictive models
Evaluate and execute product change requests as desired by the customer

The Project Manager works closely with the Services Director and the Account Director in developing and managing post-implementation operations plans for customers, communicating progress on those plans to the customer and internally to company management and managing customer expectations. As such, this position requires superior customer interaction skills and the ability to engage in discussions related to Nomis products and best practices in front of customers and company management.

Required Qualifications:

Degree in a quantitative field such as Math, Operational Research, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, Finance, etc.
10+ years of professional experience in financial services
5+ years project management responsibility leading teams of five or more
Strong problem solving and issue diagnosis skills
Track record in developing and maintaining strong customer relationships
Ability to manage the technical and analytical aspects of customer relationships
Ability to communicate business insights to customers
Ability to work in a high-energy start-up environment
Willingness to travel to customer sites and to Nomis headquarters in San Bruno, California

Preferred Qualifications:

Professional project management certification, such as PMP
Advanced degree (MS, MBA, PhD) in a quantitative field
Previous experience in delivering high-value analytic-based professional services using client data

Instructions for Application:
Please send your resume with "Project Manager" in the subject line to: jobs@nomissolutions.com