Senior Project Manager

Role: Senior Project Manager


Location: Boston, Massachusetts


Duration: 12 Months

Work Experience: 12+ Years

Primary skills: Manager

Job Description:


Responsibilities:


-Project Management Execution


-Partner with Domain Leads, Chief Product Owners and other leaders to identify impacting areas and key stakeholders required to participate so that delivery of the initiative is successful


-Work with project leads and team to develop the workstream structure, agree to governance, and define project communication, etc.


-Partner with IT, Product, and Business Unit Leads to document scope, create resource estimates and roadmap


-Manage and coordinate efforts among cross-functional teams as needed promoting collaboration and knowledge sharing


-Facilitate team and workstream discussions, while actively managing action items, risks, and dependencies


-Project Governance & Communication (out of scope items noted at bottom)


-Partner with IT, Product, and Business Unit Leads to provide required status reporting to ensure transparency


-Build relationships across the organization so that they can effectively navigate coordination to support initiative needs


-Escalate risks and impediments to stakeholders (as needed)


-Project Financial & Resource Management


-Oversee financial management for the initiative


-Coordinate with IT, Product, and Business Unit Leads to ensure proper prioritization of work to meet required timeframes


-Project Manager provides health status of the initiative based on scope, time and cost


-Project Manager facilitates the discussion and ensures decision making is timely and/or escalated (as needed)


-Project Managers will partner with, not replace, Scrum Masters who will facilitate Agile Ceremonies


Execution teams are responsible for coordinating deployments (not the Project Manager)

Qualifications:


-Experience leading large cross organization initiatives through the entire lifecycle


-Experience building a unified communication platform to be consumed by all levels of management


-Excellent business knowledge of the financial services industry, preferably with a focus on Operations or Technology, to enable effective facilitation, coordination and issue and risk management


-Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a focus on collaboration


-Familiarity with the Agile framework and supporting tools such as Jira, Confluence and Aha Roadmaps to effectively partner with delivery teams

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