Senior Project Manager, Financial Services
About The Position
Talcott Financial Group is seeking a Project Manager to support its Enterprise Portfolio Management Office. The role is based in the Hartford, Connecticut office on a hybrid schedule and is responsible for the successful planning and execution of assigned projects, including the design, adoption, and rollout of process improvements. The Project Manager leads full-cycle projects across functions, managing scope, schedules, budgets, resources, dependencies, and communications. The role works with sponsors and senior stakeholders to align initiatives with strategic objectives, establish success measures and business cases, gather and prioritize requirements, and implement solutions. It also oversees change management, user adoption, operational readiness, and the management and escalation of risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and financials. The position contributes to the Enterprise Portfolio Management Office’s operating structure and project management discipline. Responsibilities include preparing portfolio health reviews, metrics, scorecards, steering committee materials, and roadmaps; facilitating meetings; analyzing data and recommending actions; and improving tools, processes, and feedback mechanisms. The Project Manager is expected to work collaboratively across a geographically dispersed, matrixed organization, manage multiple projects, and apply knowledge of financial services to support sound business decisions.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of progressive project, program, or portfolio management experience.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in business, technology, finance, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Demonstrated success delivering increasingly complex projects, programs, or transformation initiatives from planning through execution and adoption.
- Experience partnering with executives, senior leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders to align priorities, manage expectations, and drive outcomes.
- Strong facilitation skills, including leading workshops, decision forums, planning sessions, and executive-level meetings.
- Demonstrated ability to implement portfolio governance, planning cadences, investment prioritization frameworks, enterprise governance models, and executive reporting disciplines.
- Expertise with hybrid delivery models, including Agile, Scaled Agile, and Waterfall, and experience in release planning, dependency management, integrated roadmaps, and operational readiness.
- Working knowledge of AI-enabled productivity, analytics, and project management tools, including responsible use of AI to improve planning, risk identification, reporting, decision support, and process efficiency.
- Strong strategic thinking, analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills, including the ability to navigate ambiguity and turn complex information into actionable recommendations.
- Ability to collaborate, adapt, and influence change in a matrixed, geographically dispersed environment while managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced setting.
- Authorization to work in the United States on a full-time basis without current or future visa sponsorship.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in financial services, reinsurance, or the life and annuity industries.
- Professional certifications such as PMP, PgMP, PfMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, ITIL, or equivalent credentials.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage full-cycle projects across multiple functional areas.
- Plan, organize, and control projects of varying complexity, delivering within defined scope, timelines, and budgets.
- Develop and maintain project plans, milestones, dependencies, and phase reviews throughout the project lifecycle.
- Work with project sponsors and senior stakeholders to align goals with strategic objectives and define success metrics and business cases.
- Liaise across functions to gather requirements, prioritize initiatives, and implement high-impact solutions.
- Apply project management methodologies to plan, execute, and monitor projects.
- Oversee project budgets, resource allocation, stakeholder communications, and executive reporting.
- Manage change, user adoption, and operational readiness for project deliverables.
- Proactively manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and financials; identify trends and drive timely resolution at the appropriate leadership level.
- Help build the operating structure and improve project management discipline.
- Create materials for portfolio health reviews, metrics and scorecards, steering committees, and roadmap planning.
- Facilitate meetings to remove blockers, advance project work, and strengthen portfolio management discipline.
- Analyze data and develop recommendations.
- Partner on continuous feedback mechanisms and improvements to the operating structure, tools, and processes.
- Collaborate with teams to support organizational culture and shared goals.
- Continuously build knowledge of the financial services industry and apply new thinking and skills to business decisions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
