Enterprise Project Mgr. (EPM)
Contract 8 months with possible extension
Visa and on w2
Location : Desperes MO Hybrid
Duties: As an Enterprise Project Manager, your role is to oversee and lead the planning, execution, and successful delivery of complex projects at the organizational level, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and efficient resource utilization
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for ensuring successful achievement of cross-functional programs and projects.
• Lead the planning, organization, management, execution, and delivery of large, enterprise project initiatives.
• Enterprise projects include initiatives with multiple stakeholders / sponsors, large project teams (usually in multiple locations), operating across the enterprise ecosystem and involving multiple business units
• A trusted partner to all stakeholders and ensure alignment vertically and horizontally as change occurs.
• Performs project and change management responsibilities related to projects spanning multiple business functions;
• Integrates smoothly with established Project Management within functional areas
• Ensures clearly defined responsibilities and accountabilities for key program / project goals
• Partners with Project Managers, department heads, leaders in various functional areas as required
• Adopts and implements best practices project methodology and framework across technical and functional areas as required
• Partners across the business units to develop transition plans, including ongoing success measures
• Reviews project deliverables for accuracy and provides assistance and mentoring to others
• Sets and manages client expectations, manages and escalates issues and changes when appropriate
• Coordinates resource needs and manages assigned resources within and across projects
• Accountable for driving and tracking program / project milestones
• Establishes major milestones, dependencies between functional project plans and / or areas, builds over-arching schedule, and adoption and benefit realization plans
• Provides accurate forecasting of project capital and resources required to deliver projects
• Quantifies accurate levels of risk to the program / project and can articulate impacts to the business while developing risk mitigation strategies or solution options
• Deliver projects within scope, on time, and within budget
• Must be able to strategize and understand organizational strengths and corporate vision and identifies points within programs or projects to drive integration between the two
Qualifications:
• PMP Certification
• Agile Certification or experience working with agile
• Change Management experience
Note
Core Responsibilities: They are looking for someone with strong strategic execution skills, someone who can collaborate with business leaders to define needs, break down workstreams, and clearly articulate the scope of each project.
This individual should be able to:
- Identify and engage key stakeholders
- Establish and maintain regular communication cadence and touchpoints
- Develop and manage a detailed project plan and roadmap
- Drive execution in partnership with the business
- Lead project meetings and ensure alignment on progress and deliverables
Overall, the goal is to have someone who can take ownership of projects end-to-end, providing structure, clarity, and consistent communication throughout the lifecycle.
Required Skills & Experience
Must-Have:
- Strong digital fluency, PMO / portfolio environment experience, ability to work independently, strong communication, Agile Certification or experience working with agile.
Preferred:
- PMP, Change Management experience
- Experience working in Agile environments is preferred
- Familiarity with Jira is a plus (expert-level not required, as internal support is available)
- Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook and Zoom (Whiteboard)
- Exposure to Clarity and general database systems is preferred
- Prior experience supporting or partnering with large financial institutions (e.g., Charter, Wells Fargo) is strongly preferred
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