Your OpportunityAt Schwab, you're empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us "challenge the status quo" and transform the finance industry together.
We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location.
Schwab Technology Services enables the future of how clients manage their money by providing innovative and reliable technology products and services as part of our ongoing commitment to democratize access to investing and financial planning.
This Senior Project Manager (Sr. Manager) is a key leadership role responsible for the end-to-end planning, execution, and closure of complex, high-impact projects within the Corporate Functions portfolio. The expectation is that this resources will operate with limited direction, serving as the primary liaison between project teams, stakeholders, and senior leadership.
- Employs advanced expertise in project management to design effective processes to analyzing project requirements and constraints.
- Guides peers and/or teams within the latitude of established company policies to develop effective strategies for successful project execution while managing intangible factors related to project management.
What you haveTo ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.
Required Qualifications- Collaborates across teams, facilitates partnerships, and supports cooperative efforts
- Current working experience with Schwab systems and processes.
- Ensuring the scope of the work aligns with the LBC and the business outcomes identified upon project start; preventing scope creep; updating project risks, issues, and health related to scope (including creating CR's as needed to bring back to Green)
- Creating a baselined schedule and monitoring progress against it, with key milestones aligned to MVP and business outcomes; updating project risks, issues, and health related to schedule (including creating CR's as needed to bring back to Green)
- Updating TPS forecasts, monitoring variances in actuals/forecast for spend and capacity, utilizing project preview report, keeping PfM updated on project spend, following portfolio expectations set by the PfM's; updating project risks, issues, and health related to spend (including creating CR's as needed to bring back to Green)
- Identifying, analyzing, and documenting risks and response plans; monitoring progress of risk response plans; documenting when risks become issues and driving issues to resolution
- Identifying all internal and external (including cross-portfolio and vendor) dependencies required to complete project work; identifying, monitoring, and actively working to remove project blockers; leveraging tools for dependency management
- Creating and leveraging a communication plan for each project that considers stakeholder analysis, channels, frequency, meeting cadences, reporting, etc.; updating the plan as needed; ensuring all stakeholders are kept updated on the project progress and health
- Creating and maintaining all required artifacts for the project to meet CPMO guidelines
Preferred Qualifications Refines strategies and workflows to ensure adaptability in evolving circumstances
Synthesizes complex data, manages resources, and develops strategic insights
Provides thought leadership in the business area and independently drives strategic initiatives
Supports peers in technical areas to refine their knowledge, skills, and abilities
Influences best practices to plan to prepare for opportunities or challenges
Champions innovative solutions to improve efficiency
Influences decisions that drive functional success and operational improvements
Acts to achieve success in situations that require more action than what is normal
Verbally articulates ideas impactfully, fostering open dialogue
Inspires confidence with proven expertise, integrity, and accurate communication
Presents compelling arguments to inspire action
Sets performance-driven goals across groups and drives continuous improvement
Leverages diverse expertise to develop strategies in cross-functional projects or programs
Creates clear, persuasive, and professional written documents that meet business standards
In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities
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