Job Title: Project Manager
Work Location: Remote EST/CST
Long Term Contract
Years of Experience: 5-10+
MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:
*Bachelor's degree in related field required.
*5 years of project management/project coordination experience.
*PMP certification or equivalent experience preferred.
*7 years of related business experience.
*Demonstrated experience in initiating, managing and implementing complex business transformation projects/programs.
*Strong leadership skills and able to work within a matrixed organization.
*Strong organization, analytical and problem solving skills; demonstrated ability to think about business problems in new ways and the ability to clarify key issues in complex situations.*Operational, risk, and change management skills and experience.
*Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
*Strong facilitation, conflict resolution, negotiation and influencing skills required.
*A proven team player with the ability to partner, maintain and develop relationships.
*Able to lead and motivate others and thrive in an extremely fast-paced environment.
*Ability to define and manage expectations while leading multiple concurrent projects/programs.
*Highly self-motivated; ability to work independently with minimal supervision; self-directed.
What You ll Do
GENERAL FUNCTION:
Partners with Senior Management to identify, prioritize, track, and execute strategic initiatives. This role will oversee the successful execution of one or many simultaneous strategic initiatives. Responsible and accountable for risk by openly exchanging ideas and opinions, elevating concerns, and personally following policies and procedures as defined. Accountable for always doing the right thing for customers and colleagues, and ensures that actions and behaviors drive a positive customer experience. While operating within the Bank's risk appetite, achieves results by consistently identifying, assessing, managing, monitoring, and reporting risks of all types.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
*Directly manage the planning and execution of one or many strategic initiatives and/or program work streams.
*Facilitate prioritization, scope control, and resource allocation decisions with program stakeholders.
*Provide the required program planning, including challenging financial justification and prioritization of initiatives.
*Establish and drive the management and communication strategy.
*Establish and maintain effective program governance to ensure project objectives are met; this is inclusive of driving accountability and ensuring timely completion of deliverables.
*Manage key program requests and mobilize technology, business and operations to ensure requests are communicated across the enterprise.
*Manage / oversee execution of cross-functional leads.
*dentify critical risks and issues and drive issue resolution; escalating to senior management/stakeholders, using contingency planning and demonstrating appropriate risk management.
*Manage critical project dependencies and ensure that all requirements are syndicated to relevant work streams and business partners.
*Coordinate effective communication among teams and stakeholders.
*Drive change across enterprise.
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