Project Management Lead

Freddie Mac•McLean, VA

14h•Onsite

About The Position

The Project Management Lead will support the Enterprise Risk Operations and Transformation team within Enterprise Risk advancing the modernization, integration, and execution of the company’s enterprise risk management strategy. This role drives transformation of the Enterprise Risk operating model, ensuring alignment across the three lines, clarity of risk accountabilities, and adoption of consistent frameworks, tools, and practices that strengthen the organization’s overall risk maturity. The Enterprise Risk Management department oversees all enterprise risk activities and operations, consolidating functions and activities central to managing the overall risk of the enterprise. This department’s functions include the Enterprise Risk Framework, risk methodology, Enterprise-wide risk systems and implementation of the Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) Program; Risk Appetite, limit setting and monitoring, in conjunction with stress testing and capital planning as well as reporting of risk profiles to the board and executive level; Model Risk to manage the risk associated with the pervasive use of models across the enterprise.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent and 8+ years of product / project management experience or in an operational function managing a production or client testing environment
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to facilitate effective meetings, develop materials and deliver presentations to various levels of project partners
Strong analytical and technical skills, including use of project management tools and AI
Strong organization skills and ability to multi-task and prioritize workload in a fast-paced environment against tight deadlines
Effective change management skills with demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and manage large-scale projects

Nice To Haves

Knowledge and experience in risk management and/or organizational transformation is preferred

Responsibilities

Support the Enterprise Risk Transformation Director to shape and execute the multi-year transformation roadmap for Enterprise Risk, including modernization of processes, governance, and capabilities
Lead project management and change management efforts for numerous workstreams in parallel and responsible for making both strategic and daily decisions for each project
Execute key project activities such as business case development, project scope and schedules, budgets, business requirements, issues and risks, and communications
Lead requirements and design discussions with project stakeholders; coordinate input from various partners during development and solution design to support advancing the project vision
Work on projects where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of organizational and project objectives
Determine requirements for current and future projects by conducting research into industry standards and best practices