Senior Project Manager

Gulf Winds Credit Union • Pensacola, FL

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading, planning, organizing, and executing complex, multi'departmental, and enterprise'wide initiatives with significant technical integration and organizational impact. Operating with a high degree of independence, this role establishes the delivery strategy, drives project execution through all phases of the lifecycle (initiation, planning, execution, control, and closure), and ensures solutions meet business, technical, regulatory, and quality requirements. The Senior Project Manager proactively identifies risks and interdependencies, facilitates cross'functional collaboration, provides executive'level communication, and ensures the successful transition of solutions into operational readiness. This role also mentors project managers and analysts, contributes to continuous improvement of project management practices, and partners with leadership to ensure alignment with enterprise strategy.

Requirements

• 5'7+ years of project management experience, including leading high-risk, multi-stakeholder technical projects; financial services or other regulated industries preferred. Demonstrated success delivering multi'system implementations and integrations; experience coordinating across business units, IT, vendors, and analysts. Symitar Core and related systems experience preferred (or equivalent core banking environment).
• A bachelor's degree is strongly preferred.
• PMP is required.
• Executive-level communication and facilitation; able to influence without authority across departments. Advanced conflict resolution in high-stakes environments; skilled at guiding data-driven decisions and balancing business/technical tradeoffs. Strong analytical, technical, and organizational skills; exceptional documentation and presentation abilities. Demonstrates analytical, technical, and organizational skills. Must have excellent documentation and verbal and written communication/presentation skills. The ability to manage many activities and assignments, recognize when prioritization may be needed, and escalate appropriately.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Power BI; accustomed to portfolio and project management in Jira or MS Project.
• Familiarity with software implementation lifecycles, configuration management, QA/UAT practices, and technical documentation; able to translate between business and technical stakeholders.
• Financial acumen (budgeting, forecasting, cost/benefit, ROI modeling) and vendor/SOW management.

Nice To Haves

• IT-Focused Certifications preferred. Preferably related to ITIL, Azure, or AI/ML fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Leads the full project lifecycle for large, complex, or enterprise wide initiatives involving multiple departments, systems, and vendors. Defines execution approach, develops integrated schedules, manages scope and budget, ensures adherence to methodology, and drives day to day execution to achieve measurable outcomes.
• Facilitates coordination between business units, IT, vendors, and analysts to ensure technical requirements, integrations, dependencies, and constraints are understood and addressed. Leads detailed working sessions, technical reviews, and decision forums to ensure alignment between business needs and system capabilities.
• Identifies, evaluates, and manages risks, issues, and interdependencies across multiple projects and systems. Develops mitigation strategies, performs impact assessments, escalates critical items early, and ensures transparent, data-driven decision-making with leaders and stakeholders.
• Provides clear, concise, executive ready communication, including dashboards, status summaries, risk profiles, and program updates. Facilitates decision making sessions and ensures leadership is informed of project progress, challenges, and required actions.
• Mentors Project Managers and Technical Business Analysts; provides feedback on documentation, execution practices, and communication quality. Contributes to improving standards, templates, workflows, reporting structures, and tools to increase project delivery maturity across the organization.
• Partners with Finance and Risk Management to develop budgets, track forecasts, manage SOWs, and oversee vendor delivery performance. Holds vendors accountable for outcomes, escalates deficiencies, and ensures contractual compliance within projects.
• Performs other job related duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

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