Project Manager

Vibe Credit Union•Novi, MI

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About The Position

At Vibe, the Project Manager helps turn strategic priorities into action by leading cross-functional projects from initial intake through implementation, stabilization, and closeout. The role provides structure, transparency, accountability, and momentum to complex initiatives, connecting project sponsors, business leaders, subject-matter experts, operational teams, technical resources, and vendors. Business leaders remain accountable for business decisions and outcomes; the Project Manager ensures participants understand the work, ownership, deadlines, and potential obstacles. The Project Manager establishes project outcomes, success measures, ownership, and decision authority with sponsors; develops plans and governance materials appropriate to each initiative; coordinates contributors; monitors delivery health; and escalates risks and impediments. The role also helps ensure implementation readiness, maintains accurate project information for portfolio visibility, and promotes project-management practices scaled to project complexity, risk, and organizational impact. This position supports Vibe’s mission to elevate community and create opportunity through strategic initiatives that benefit team members, members, and communities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree preferred, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
PMP certification preferred; comparable demonstrated project leadership experience may be considered.
Three or more years of project management or closely related project-delivery experience preferred.
Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and competing priorities.
Strong project planning, organization, prioritization, and follow-through.
Ability to lead through influence and create accountability without direct reporting authority.
Excellent written, verbal, and facilitation skills, including the ability to communicate with executives, leaders, subject-matter experts, vendors, technical partners, and operational teams.
Strong judgment in identifying risks, ownership gaps, dependencies, resource constraints, and issues requiring escalation.
Ability to translate strategic priorities and business outcomes into practical, executable project plans.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, emphasizing practical, scalable, and repeatable solutions.
Ability to balance forward momentum with appropriate governance, risk management, and organizational readiness.
Ability to manage changing priorities while clearly communicating tradeoffs and impacts.
Independent and collaborative, with the ability to build trusted relationships across all organizational levels.

Nice To Haves

Financial services or other regulated-industry experience.

Responsibilities

Lead cross-functional projects through intake, initiation, planning, execution, implementation, stabilization, and closeout.
Partner with project sponsors to establish business outcomes, success measures, ownership, and decision authority.
Develop project plans, charters, schedules, milestones, dependency maps, decision logs, risk and issue logs, and status reporting appropriate to each initiative.
Facilitate project kickoffs, working sessions, leadership updates, implementation-readiness reviews, and post-project retrospectives.
Coordinate teams including business project leads, subject-matter experts, operational partners, Enterprise Solutions resources, technical teams, and vendors.
Establish owners, expectations, and deadlines for project deliverables; follow up on commitments and escalate stalled decisions, resource constraints, risks, and missed deadlines as needed.
Communicate project status, milestones, responsibilities, risks, and decisions needed to stakeholders.
Monitor scope, schedules, dependencies, decisions, risks, and overall project health; provide red, yellow, and green status reporting and identify delivery risks.
Identify ownership gaps, resource conflicts, competing priorities, and dependencies that may affect delivery.
Protect project scope and governance by identifying work requiring further evaluation, ownership, or alignment.
Partner with business leaders to ensure resources, ownership, decision authority, and organizational readiness are in place before major milestones.
Ensure business teams plan for user acceptance testing, training, procedures, controls, operational readiness, and change activities; track progress while keeping business activity accountability with business owners.
Coordinate vendor activities, deliverables, dependencies, meetings, and escalation paths with business and technical stakeholders.
Maintain accurate project information to support portfolio-level visibility and surface cross-project conflicts, resource constraints, sequencing concerns, and emerging risks to leadership.
At closeout, evaluate delivery against objectives with the project sponsor, capture lessons learned, and establish ownership for outstanding items.
Promote consistent project-management practices while scaling governance to project complexity, risk, and organizational impact.