Principal Project Manager

Mastercard • O’Fallon, MO

11d

About The Position

Overview: The Strategy, Enablement & Transformation team is composed of strong contributors with strong project management skills, leadership abilities, and consulting mindset. The group acts as an internal consultant supporting the Global Business Solutions (GBS) organization, which today supports three primary departments: Finance, People and Capability and Law, Franchise, and Integrity. The primary responsibility is to successfully execute projects within the GBS and stakeholder groups. The qualified candidate will be a member of a highly visible team working closely with operations and internal stakeholders to identify opportunities, develop appropriate planning and execute on projects. This position requires a highly collaborative individual with strong process and project management skills who will need to coordinate global relationships across multiple functional areas, third party providers and regional constituencies.

Requirements

• Experience in leading large-scale, cross functional projects.
• Project and/or Program Management experience, with a good understanding of a typical lifecycle
• Experience evaluating business processes and providing advice on ways to effectively streamline business processes and efficiencies (i.e., Lean Six Sigma)
• Expert presenter using data and visuals to tell project status and stories to various audiences, up to executives.
• Excellent communication (written, oral and presentation) and people skills.
• Experience with project risk management and investigation, consulting and strategic judgement, and business process assessment.
• Experience in analysis of operational data to support business decisions and proven process management experience - inclusive of process design and system optimization.

Nice To Haves

• Professional services or consulting experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Planning, developing, and executing project schedules to ensure timely completion of deadlines and milestones.
• Provide insights to enhance processes and tools, support implementation best practices and process improvements derived from identifying areas of weakness and strategizing improvements.
• Develop, run, and distribute status and progress reports to update leadership and project team members.
• Regularly communicates to senior management regarding the status of specific project deliverables.
• Perform analysis and assessment activities to provide stakeholders with timely updates.

Benefits

• insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
• flexible spending account and health savings account
• paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
• 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire
• 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
• 401k with a best-in-class company match
• deferred compensation for eligible roles
• fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
• eligibility for tuition reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees