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Date: Apr 19, 2012

Location: Bingham Farms, MI, US

Title: Project Manager
ID: PRO00006748

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Project Manager

Job Summary:

The Project Manager will define, scope and manage one or more projects of medium to large size/complexity and will ensure technical and/or business objectives are achieved. This role will typically manage projects that may include the entire lifecycle from requirements through to deployment or specific parts of the lifecycle of a larger project. Additionally, this role will manage projects that are 6-12 months in duration and involve up to 10 FTEs across one or more locations.

Duties and Responsibilities:

- Delivers projects within the constraints of scope, time and cost to agreed levels of quality, within the organization's project management framework.
- Defines, documents and manages smaller-scale projects with minimal supervision, working with multiple teams that may have differing priorities and working/cultural practices.
- Actively participates in all phases of the project or specific phases of larger projects. Identifies, assesses and manages risks to the success of the project.
- Effectively manage project team conflicts, builds collaborative partnerships with stakeholders, and commitment to make decisions.
- Estimates costs, timescales and resource requirements for the successful completion of each project to agreed scope and constraints.
- Prepares and maintains project plans and tracks activities against the plan.
- Implement effective communication plan and operating rhythm, including provision of regular and accurate reports.
- Monitors costs, timescales and resources used, and takes action where these deviate from agreed tolerances. Ensures that deliverables are implemented within these criteria.
- Manages change control gaining agreement for revisions from project stakeholders.
- Provides effective leadership to the project team ensuring members are motivated. Identifies any problems with sponsorship.
- Schedule and secure resources for project task assignments.
- Collaborate with the Relationship Manager for assigned client project.
- Acts as a mentor to less experienced project managers.

At Thomson Reuters, we deliver intelligent information quickly and efficiently, so professionals have knowledge to act. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and scientific, healthcare, and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.

About the IP & Science Business of Thomson Reuters
The IP & Science business is a global provider of information solutions to assist professionals at every stage of research and development and ensure they maintain and extract maximum value from their intellectual assets.

IP & Science is part of Thomson Reuters (www.thomsonreuters.com), the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. Scientific information solutions can be found at thomsonreuters.com.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

- Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent in education and work experience.
- PMP certification is required.
- At least 5 years Project Management experience.
- Proficient with project delivery, risk management and project staff management.
- Knowledge of or experience with Intellectual Property systems preferred.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Effective decision making ability.
- Customer service aptitude imperative.
- Ability to multi-task and manage several projects at one time.
- Ability to learn and adapt quickly.
- Good understanding of MS office products: MS Word, Excel, Access.
- Up to 30% travel.

At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 55,000 colleagues in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.

To learn more about what we offer, please visit careers.thomsonreuters.com.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.

According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the H-1B visa cap has been met for the 2012 fiscal year (October 1, 2011-September 30, 2012).

Job: Project Management
Primary Location: US-MI-Bingham Farms
Organization: IP Innovation&Asset Mgmt
Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes, 25% of the time

Nearest Major Market: Detroit
Job Segments: Customer Service, Finance, Intellectual Property, Legal, Management, Manager, Project Manager, Relationship Manager, Research, Risk Management, Technology