Director of Project Management

Fiserv • Omaha, NE

109d • Onsite

About The Position

At Fiserv, a Director Technical Project Management ensures predictable, consistent, and successful project team delivery and oversight. This person plans, coordinates, and monitors team members that have oversight to larger scale scope and budget projects with a high degree of complexity and risk. They also partner with key business stakeholders to ensure a successful start-up and completion of a project at leadership levels. A Director Technical Project Management is a change leader who proactively manages and mitigates project risks.

Requirements

• Min of 10 years of previous project management and/or relevant consulting experience.
• Knowledge of- and demonstrated experience in project management processes and methodologies, as well as project lifecycles.
• Experience in driving large scale projects within an organization.
• Experience with matrix management of cross-functional processes and teams.
• Experience with consulting services that preface, enable or influence the adoption of IT transformation, risk, governance and services.
• Experience providing customer support for the customers' IT initiatives by providing strategic, architectural, operational and implementation planning.

Nice To Haves

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Experience in banking, financial services, and/or software industries.
• Experience with Project Management tools.

Responsibilities

• Ensure predictable, consistent, and successful project delivery within your team.
• Scope Change Management.
• Risk Change Management.
• Provide executive status summaries and updates of the overall project to the organization and all stakeholders.
• Exhibit proactive behavior by engaging in project planning activities, including defining the overall scope of the project.
• Create and maintain a consolidated timeline/schedule highlighting the major milestones and associated dates for project activities.
• Identify and communicate project dependencies and impacts.
• Establish processes and metrics to ensure ongoing control of the project.
• Monitor the integrity of the programs within your team and execute measures to maintain such integrity.
• Define project governance, outlining roles, responsibilities, decision rights and clearly defined escalation path.
• Ensure success criteria defined upfront to promote alignment and actively manage expected project outcomes.
• Keep all stakeholders engaged in the project, aligned on expected outcomes and informed about what is occurring throughout project.
• Proactively communicate the project's progress on an ongoing basis, ensuring transparency throughout project lifecycle.
• Provide leadership and key stakeholders with the information and venues to make effective, timely decisions.
• Ensure your team is delivering with the PMO framework.
• Perform audits.
• Engage clients to leverage and utilize Fiserv solutions.
• Provide advisory services for industry best practices.
• Analyze client needs and translate tactical and strategic business objectives to deliver added value.
• Deliver best practices to maximize revenue realization, client satisfaction, retention and client reference ability.
• Provide customer support for the customers' IT initiatives by providing strategic, architectural, operational and implementation planning.
• Manage multiple tracks/workstreams and provide summarized executive program updates internally and externally.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities