Senior Project Manager

KeyBank•Brooklyn, OH

19h•$96,000 - $181,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Sr Project Manager Leader directs and coaches a staff of project management professionals to meet established goals and objectives for assigned projects. As owning manager, provides oversight on the project lifecycle, ensures all checkpoint reviews are timely and effectively performed, and approves all standard project deliverables for appropriate content. Works closely with business partners to understand their business/project needs and allocates project managers accordingly. Provides tactical leadership of project demand, supporting business leaders and project managers in managing project scope, change management, objectives, requirements, deliverables, and value proposition to maximize return on investments, and maintain compliance with relevant standards. May manage projects to the same level as a project manager and/or lead project manager. Establishes and maintains a strong collaborative trusted advisor relationship.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree (preferred) OR equivalent experience (required)
7+ years of increasingly complex project related experience (preferred)
3+ years of team management experience (preferred)
3+ years experience in financial services industry (preferred)
Knowledge and experience with standard project development/management methodologies and tools required.
Expert knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
Working Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
Extensive Experience with effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
Extensive Experience with techniques to successfully effect change in an organization and ability to manage the successful and smooth transition from current to desired culture, practices, structure, and overall organizational environment.
Expert knowledge of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Extensive Experience with effective team building techniques; ability to form and manage effective teams.
Extensive Experience with leadership practices and processes; ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing and achieving objectives while having a long-term perspective of the future state of things and how to get there.
Working knowledge of leadership concepts and ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing and achieving objectives.
Extensive Experience with project planning; ability to utilize a variety of specific tools and techniques for planning, estimating, resourcing and scheduling IT projects.
Extensive Experience with project control and reporting; ability to monitor the vital signs of an IT project while managing its progress and delivery schedule.
Working Knowledge of major tasks, deliverables, and formal application delivery methodologies; ability to utilize these in order to deliver new or enhanced applications.
Extensive Experience with collaborative techniques and approaches; ability to promote a culture of continuous improvement and working together across functions to solve business problems and meet business goals.

Nice To Haves

Project Management Professional (PMP) - PMI (preferred)

Responsibilities

Monitors projects for adherence to the project lifecycle framework (e.g. Standard PLC, SDLC, etc.) and oversees the creation of project estimates, budget, timeline, checkpoints.
Accountable to negotiate and drive realistic requirements, budgets, resources, and timeline, and deliver the project portfolio on time and on budget.
Manages, oversees and improves established project delivery performance by reviewing metrics, lessons learned, and other reviews (e.g. burn report, managed forecast report).
Understands various project delivery management methodologies such as waterfall, agile etc. Able to manage or coordinate with all types of projects.
Drive effective partner relationship management by acquiring comprehensive knowledge of the business by spending time with business partners; solving business problems; negotiating effectively to drive realistic requirements, budgets, resources and timeline; as well as offering credible challenges.
Comfortable presenting to senior and executive levels of leadership.
Ensures project managers have proper focus on change management planning, design and implementation including communication and training.
Assists with issue and conflict escalation; manages project portfolio dependencies and tracks/monitors/escalates as necessary; ensures project risks are escalated with corrective/mitigating actions.
Supports business case development with Project Managers and Business Leaders.
Collaborates with senior leadership on portfolio rationalization activities.
Responsible for effective Project Manager capacity plan, utilizing internal/ external project manager resources supporting an appropriate and relevant staffing model (e.g. core flex staff model).
Responsible for, consolidates and continuously manages the overall project financials; including the forecasting and budgeting as required by project and company standards.
Independently facilitates and executes budgetary requests.
Manages and leads a team of Project Managers and other project team members, oversees employee onboarding, and performance management activities.
Coaches, develops, and mentors staff to grow skills in a positive, inclusive work environment.
Supports staff professional development (e.g. Future Ready, professional certifications, etc.).
Performs other duties as assigned; duties, responsibilities and/or activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice Complies with all KeyBank policies and procedures, including without limitation, acting professionally at all times, conducting business ethically, avoiding conflicts of interest, and acting in the best interests of Key’s clients and Key.