Responsibilities:
• Determine the project approach, staffing, responsibilities, and schedule.
• Set project objectives.
• Complete cost/benefit analysis.
• Manage scope and scope change requests.
• Plan and direct schedules and budgets.
• Track projects against milestones.
• Monitor projects from initiation through delivery and monitor for continuous improvement.
• Lead or oversee requirements gathering process.
• Partner with (business/technical) Project Managers to deliver project.
• Develop and manage project governance including steering committee meetings, sponsor meetings, project team meetings, status reports, etc.
• Project communications including project education and marketing.
• Ensure that all requirements, project plans, and changes to commitment are communicated to all affected team members.
• Lead and/or participate in procurement process, including vendor contact negotiations.
• Manage relationships with vendor(s), and business.
• Liaison between vendor(s), and business.
• Consult with business to develop solutions.
• Analyze, interpret, and derive meaning from data.
• Ensure test plans are adequate and successful completion of all testing related tasks.
• Evaluate system and acceptance test results and make recommendations for adjustments as necessary.
• Identify and develop contingency plans to mitigate and address risks; Implement change management activities when necessary.
• Take responsibility for benefits realization as well as meeting milestone and budget targets.
• Develop and execute implementation, change, and transition plans.
• Administratively close out projects, conducting post implementation review, benefits review, lessons learned, publishing information, and implementing improvement opportunities.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Master’s degree or equivalent.
• Cross-functional, cross-disciplinary project management and business analysis experience.
• Knowledge of the key components of project management (e.g., scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communication, risk, integration) and associated tools and methodologies.
• General knowledge and ability to apply business practices in the context of project management activities.
• Experience identifying, writing, and prioritizing business requirements.
• Experience facilitating large user workshops.
• Experience managing complex projects.
• Experience managing projects with multi-month time lines.
• Experience executing strategic business plans preferred.
• Experience managing organization change and communication preferred.
• Supervisory experience preferred.
• Experience with process improvement preferred.
• Experience managing organization change and communication preferred.
• Consulting and/or multi-discipline experience preferred.
• Project management certification (e.g., PMI, PMP) preferred.
• Quality management experience (e.g., Six Sigma, Juran, Deming) preferred.
• Other domain-specific knowledge and abilities to be determined by a Project Manager’s division.
• Microsoft products including MS Project, Excel, Word, Access and PowerPoint.
• Ability to recognize and communicate potential issues impacting the organization.
• Effectively applies consultation skills to solve problems independently.
• Makes decisions with limited impact on own work and possibly the work of others.
Oversees the development of solutions to a variety of business issues and ensures the solutions are consistent with organizational objectives
Financial services experience .
Third party administrators
Managing data management projects
• Determine the project approach, staffing, responsibilities, and schedule.
• Set project objectives.
• Complete cost/benefit analysis.
• Manage scope and scope change requests.
• Plan and direct schedules and budgets.
• Track projects against milestones.
• Monitor projects from initiation through delivery and monitor for continuous improvement.
• Lead or oversee requirements gathering process.
• Partner with (business/technical) Project Managers to deliver project.
• Develop and manage project governance including steering committee meetings, sponsor meetings, project team meetings, status reports, etc.
• Project communications including project education and marketing.
• Ensure that all requirements, project plans, and changes to commitment are communicated to all affected team members.
• Lead and/or participate in procurement process, including vendor contact negotiations.
• Manage relationships with vendor(s), and business.
• Liaison between vendor(s), and business.
• Consult with business to develop solutions.
• Analyze, interpret, and derive meaning from data.
• Ensure test plans are adequate and successful completion of all testing related tasks.
• Evaluate system and acceptance test results and make recommendations for adjustments as necessary.
• Identify and develop contingency plans to mitigate and address risks; Implement change management activities when necessary.
• Take responsibility for benefits realization as well as meeting milestone and budget targets.
• Develop and execute implementation, change, and transition plans.
• Administratively close out projects, conducting post implementation review, benefits review, lessons learned, publishing information, and implementing improvement opportunities.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Master’s degree or equivalent.
• Cross-functional, cross-disciplinary project management and business analysis experience.
• Knowledge of the key components of project management (e.g., scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communication, risk, integration) and associated tools and methodologies.
• General knowledge and ability to apply business practices in the context of project management activities.
• Experience identifying, writing, and prioritizing business requirements.
• Experience facilitating large user workshops.
• Experience managing complex projects.
• Experience managing projects with multi-month time lines.
• Experience executing strategic business plans preferred.
• Experience managing organization change and communication preferred.
• Supervisory experience preferred.
• Experience with process improvement preferred.
• Experience managing organization change and communication preferred.
• Consulting and/or multi-discipline experience preferred.
• Project management certification (e.g., PMI, PMP) preferred.
• Quality management experience (e.g., Six Sigma, Juran, Deming) preferred.
• Other domain-specific knowledge and abilities to be determined by a Project Manager’s division.
• Microsoft products including MS Project, Excel, Word, Access and PowerPoint.
• Ability to recognize and communicate potential issues impacting the organization.
• Effectively applies consultation skills to solve problems independently.
• Makes decisions with limited impact on own work and possibly the work of others.
Oversees the development of solutions to a variety of business issues and ensures the solutions are consistent with organizational objectives
Financial services experience .
Third party administrators
Managing data management projects