Projects Director, Transaction Services

American Heart Association • Dallas, TX

12d • $109,900 - $146,600 • Hybrid

About The Position

The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Projects Director, Transaction Services in our National Center office located in Dallas, Texas. This position will work in a hybrid setting (in-office 1-3 days a week, as needed) in our Dallas office. The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally. #TheAHALife is more than a company culture; it is our way of life. It embodies our commitment to work-life harmonization and is guided by our core values where our employees can thrive both personally and professionally. Discover why you will Be Seen. Be Heard. Be Valued at the American Heart Association by following us on LinkedIn , Instagram , Facebook , X , and at heart.jobs .

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field of study or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of eight (8) years of experience developing project plans, including charter, scope, project management approach, management plans, cost estimates, schedule, and work breakdown.
• Integration experience, with demonstrated ability to assess, plan, and execute complex cross-company initiatives.
• Experience in program managing large-scale initiatives, including strategic business transactions, organizational changes, business process redesign, systems implementations/conversions, enterprise risk, and operational excellence.
• Excellent analytical thinking, analysis, and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to summarize abstract ideas clearly and independently manage project objectives.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills and abilities (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
• Advanced Microsoft Project skills or other project planning tools (e.g., Asana, Basecamp, etc.).

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with the Association organization structure, operations, and leadership team is highly desired.
• Master's degree.
• PMP Certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Managing assigned projects within the scope of the Association's strategic development.
• Provides leadership and support for implementing strategic business transactions, joint ventures, asset acquisitions, and related activities throughout the deal lifecycle, applying industry best practices in program/project management and change management.
• Functioning as a key member and overall program manager to ensure diligence is well coordinated and any resulting transaction is successful.
• Managing assigned projects within the Corporate Operations organization, including process improvement and optimization opportunities that reduce operational costs and improve efficiency.
• Directly organizing and managing due diligence, planning, execution, separation, integration, and organizational restructuring activities.
• Evaluating organizational readiness in advance of transition events.
• Providing leadership in transactional activities across planning and deployment, finance and risk management, operations transformation, systems integration, and program development.
• Creating consolidated program milestones, interdependencies, and communication plans.
• Leading meetings with stakeholders to move forward key tasks and escalate significant process bottlenecks, anticipated delays, and critical path analysis.
• Generating accurate senior management reporting and providing guidance to Business Relationship Owners on performance monitoring objectives and project status.
• Managing reporting and resolution of issues, risks, and dependencies, proactively identifying potential planning gaps, suggesting mitigations to risks, actions to close issues, or complete open items.
• Maintaining due diligence data room sites for all related documents, including maintaining security and appropriate access.
• Coordinating with appropriate parties to ensure that standard toolkits and methodologies are used for transaction activities; suggesting changes and improvements to processes proactively.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
• Robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution
• Employee assistance program
• Employee wellness program
• Telemedicine and medical consultation
• Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year for new employees, increasing with seniority
• 12 paid holidays off each year, including several days off at the end of the year
• Tuition Assistance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director