• Job Description

  Req#: REQ-042071

  The Group:

  At Morningstar, great people are our most important assets and essential to our success. We look for hardworking, enthusiastic people to join us in our mission to help investors reach their financial goals. In turn, we offer people an environment that fosters an entrepreneurial spirit, offers dynamic career paths, and rewards employees for helping Morningstar thrive.

  We operate in 27 countries. Our global teams delight our clients around the world by creating industry-defining financial products and services. We are a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Our company offers an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, retirement plan providers and sponsors. We provide data on approximately 550,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on nearly 21 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries.

  The Role:

  We are hiring an experienced, dynamic Project Manager who is highly collaborative, detail oriented and self-directed to join the Workplace group. As a Project Manager, you will manage critical projects working in a collaborative environment with product management, technology, and operations (including our corporate functions such as Finance Transformation, IT, Talent & Culture) globally to ensure successful delivery.

  An ideal candidate has a strong background coordinating the work of globally distributed teams on complex projects. Experience owning, planning, and driving projects to completion including the oversight of multiple project plans and key metrics, as well as the ability to work in a fast-paced environment is critical.

  This is a hybrid role, requiring three days a week in our corporate office in downtown Chicago.

  Responsibilities:

  • Develop an in-depth understanding of our products and services.
  • Develop an in-depth understanding of our business processes, corporate systems and infrastructure.
  • Create and oversee project timelines, tasks/responsibilities, and deliverables for assigned projects working with various global delivery teams on implementation.
  • Communicate regular project status updates across all stakeholder groups.
  • Identify, monitor, and mitigate project risks.
  • Work with external and internal project stakeholders to define and document project scope, detailed functional, non-functional, and technical requirements when needed.
  • Partner with groups throughout Morningstar to proactively manage dependencies.
  • Cultivate a culture of team collaboration along with open and honest communication.
  • Analyze key metrics impacting project progress and/or project team performance and work with the business to resolve any issues/impediments.
  • Focus on continuous process improvement through feedback loops, coaching, retrospectives, and individual improvement to help the team achieve optimal performance.
  • Understand, adopt, and drive Morningstar’s Agile Scrum framework a nd serve as Scrum Master in managing sprints and working with team members to resolve issues and eliminate roadblocks where needed.

  Qualifications:

  • A bachelor’s degree is required.
  • Prior project management experience in software development - 3+ years.
  • Knowledge of the software development lifecycle.
  • A demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects concurrently.
  • Proven success and flexibility in facilitating global team collaboration.
  • Strong leadership, communication, time management, problem solving, and analytical skills.
  • Ability to influence decision-making processes and foster an environment of healthy team debate.
  • Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and can keep a team on track.
  • Effective at coaching teams and providing feedback to stakeholders/executives.
  • Possess strong active listening skills and demonstrate critical thinking.
  • Experience with traditional and agile project-management frameworks.
  • Strong knowledge of Agile practices including demonstrated experience in applying an Agile mindset. Agile certification is a plus.
  • Hands-on experience with online project management software including Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, etc.), Asana, or similar.

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  If you receive and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentiality to our Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker.

  Morningstar’s hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. While some positions are available as fully remote, we’ve found that we’re at our best when we’re purposely together on a regular basis, typically three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you’ll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.

• About the company

  Morningstar, Inc. is an American financial services firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and was founded by Joe Mansueto in 1984.

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