Reporting To:

Director, Head of Business Technology, Mumbai

Shift:

EMEA (1:30 pm - 10:30 pm IST) (India)

About Russell Investments, Mumbai: 

Russell Investments is a leading outsourced financial partner and global investment solutions firm providing a wide range of investment capabilities to institutional investors, financial intermediaries, and individual investors around the world. Building on an 90-year legacy of continuous innovation to deliver exceptional value to clients, Russell Investments works every day to improve the financial security of its clients. The firm is “Top 12 Ranked Consultant (2009-2024)” in P&I survey 2024 with $1,013 billion in assets under advisement (as of June 30, 2026) and $417.5 billion in assets under management (as of June 30, 2026) for clients in 30 countries. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington in the United States, Russell Investments has offices around the world, including London, New York, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Mumbai.

Joining our Mumbai office means becoming part of a globally connected team where associates collaborate across functions, geographies, and time zones to support the work of a globally recognized asset management firm. Based in Goregaon (East), you will have the opportunity to work alongside colleagues around the world, contribute to meaningful initiatives, and build your career in a collaborative and inclusive environment. The Mumbai office operates with varying shifts to support collaboration across global time zones.

For more information, please visit https://www.russellinvestments.com.

Job Description:

The Project Manager is a hands-on project management and business analysis role responsible for translating business objectives into executable change. Based within the Go-to-Market Technology vertical, the role leads cross-functional initiatives spanning sales and service teams, technology and data. The successful candidate will combine disciplined delivery management with hands-on technical business analysis: defining business outcomes, analysing current-state processes and capabilities, eliciting and documenting requirements, identifying dependencies and risks, and coordinating implementation through an appropriate delivery approach. Experience delivering change within a go-to-market ecosystem and a regulated industry, ideally banking, asset or wealth management, is preferred.

Years of Experience

8+ years of experience delivering business, technology or transformation initiatives, including substantial hands-on project management and business analysis responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Demonstrated experience performing both project management and business analysis within the same role.
• Experience delivering simultaneous SaaS-based and internally developed projects through hybrid teams comprising in-house associates and external vendors, with clear accountability for outcomes, dependencies, quality and knowledge transfer.
• Practical experience applying agile, waterfall and hybrid delivery methods, selecting the approach appropriate to the initiative.
• Proficiency in using AI-enabled tools to accelerate delivery, support business analysis, improve decision-making and embed sustainable change, with appropriate attention to data security, governance and responsible use.
• Experience using delivery and analysis tools such as Jira, Confluence, Visio, Miro or equivalent; relevant PM, BA or agile qualifications are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex go-to-market technology initiatives, from discovery and planning through implementation, adoption and benefits realisation.
• Define business outcomes, scope and delivery approach; maintain integrated plans and proportionate governance while actively managing risks, issues, dependencies, budgets and resources.
• Support technology and business roadmaps, facilitating prioritisation, sequencing and trade-off decisions based on strategic value, capacity, dependencies and delivery risk.
• Partner with technology domain experts, development managers and delivery teams to shape solutions, coordinate execution and remove barriers to successful delivery.
• Work with business subject-matter experts and enablement teams to understand needs, define requirements and processes, and ensure changes are successfully embedded and adopted.
• Lead hands-on business analysis, translating needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, solution options and implementation plans.
• Coordinate cross-functional delivery across business, technology, data, information security, risk, compliance and external partners, using agile, waterfall or hybrid methods as appropriate.
• Oversee testing, business readiness, communications, training, launch and post-implementation review, measuring adoption, operational effectiveness and business outcomes.

Candidate Requirements

• Structured and analytical, with the ability to investigate ambiguity, identify root causes and turn complex information into actionable recommendations.
• Able to move confidently between detailed business analysis and practical delivery management.
• Credible with senior leaders and effective when working with operational, commercial, technical, data, risk and compliance teams.
• Skilled at facilitating decisions, constructively challenging assumptions and influencing across functions without relying on formal authority.
• Strong written, verbal, workshop-facilitation and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly.
• Comfortable prioritising competing demands and maintaining momentum in a fast-moving, evolving environment.
• Proactive, collaborative and accountable for outcomes rather than activity, with sound judgement and a strong sense of ownership.
• Strong appreciation of technical systems, data, operational processes and controls within a regulated environment.

Core Values

• Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication and collaboration skills with all levels of management
• Strong organizational skills including the ability to adapt to shifting priorities and meet frequent deadlines,
• Demonstrated a proactive approach to problem-solving with strong judgment and decision-making capability.
• Highly resourceful and collaborative team player, with the ability to also be independently effective and exude initiative and a sense of urgency.
• Exemplifies our customer-focused, action-oriented, results-driven culture.
• Forward-looking thinker, who actively seeks opportunities, has a desire for continuous learning, and proposes solutions.
• Ability to act with discretion and maintain complete confidentiality.
• Dedicated to the firm’s values of non-negotiable integrity, valuing our people, exceeding client expectations, and embracing intellectual curiosity and rigour.