Project Manager
Thomson Reuters · China, Shanghai, Shanghai ·
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Category
- Project management
- Experience
- 10+ years
Job Description
As a Professional Services Project Manager, you will take full ownership of end-to-end software implementations, delivering Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE corporate tax and e-invoicing solutions to multinational clients across Greater China. You will serve as the trusted advisor and strategic bridge between client executives, partner consulting teams, and our global implementation specialists. By combining robust project governance with enterprise technology expertise, you will lead high-performing teams, navigate complex system integrations, and ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest standard of customer satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities
In this opportunity as a Professional Services Project Manager, you will:
- Drive End-to-End Project Delivery: Own the complete project lifecycle from initiation and scoping through to cutover and post-implementation review, ensuring all deliverables meet defined scope, quality, and milestone commitments.
- Lead Client Governance & Engagement: Direct project teams and run client workshops to align expectations, manage stakeholder relationships, and serve as the primary escalation point for client leadership and internal teams.
- Bridge Global & Local Teams: Act as the vital link between local on-site clients and overseas implementation teams, ensuring seamless cross-border communication, resource alignment, and knowledge sharing.
- Proactively Manage Risks & Issues: Identify delivery risks, technical roadblocks, and scope changes early; formulate effective mitigation strategies and clearly communicate impact to all key stakeholders.
- Manage Financials & Utilization KPIs: Oversee project budgets, expenditure tracking, and revenue recognition while driving high resource utilization and operational efficiency across your engagement portfolio.
- Mentor & Develop Talent: Supervise project consultants, provide functional guidance, delegate authority where appropriate, and cultivate a continuous improvement culture within the practice.
- Ensure Transparent Reporting: Maintain regular, rigorous project health updates, executive status reports, and project documentation across client and internal leadership.
Required Qualifications
You are an ideal fit for the Professional Services Project Manager role if your experience includes:
- 10+ years of enterprise project management and consulting delivery experience, with a proven track record supporting globally operating multinational clients.
- Professional background in enterprise software consulting, Big 4, or system integrators with hands-on experience in ERP systems (such as SAP or Oracle), supply chain, or finance/tax technology implementations.
- Strong technical and functional comprehension of system architecture design, data integration, and indirect tax/e-invoicing workflows.
- Proven ability to concurrently manage multiple complex projects, tight deadlines, and competing priorities while meeting revenue and utilization targets.
- Outstanding communication, negotiation, and influencing skills, with the ability to bridge business and technical requirements across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Professional fluency in both English and Chinese (written and spoken) to effectively manage local client and global team interactions.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 50% for on-site customer engagements, with flexibility to support critical business cutover events.
Preferred Qualifications
- Project Management Professional (PMP / PMI) or equivalent project management certification.
- 8+ years of dedicated experience delivering core ERP implementations or cloud-based (SaaS) integration projects.
- Hands-on experience or familiarity integrating mainstream Chinese enterprise tax and e-invoicing platforms (such as Golden Tax System, SAP, Oracle, Baiwang Cloud, Aisino, Yonyou, or Kingdee).
- Prior working knowledge of Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE platforms (e.g., OITD, Determination Anywhere, Global Trade Management).
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What’s in it For You?
Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
About Us
Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
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