C4 Technical Services

Principal (lead) Project Manager

Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid)

As a Principal Project Manager, you will be responsible, for helping lead the delivery of a large-scale IT modernization program. Additionally, you will establish timelines for key deliverables, assessing progress against those milestones, status reporting both internally and to executive stakeholders. This role is a part of the overall program delivery leadership team. You will work closely with other project managers, scrum master and development leadership across the IT and business organizations. Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident alien with at least three years of legal residency. The Bank believes in flexibility to balance the demands of work and life while also recognizing the necessity of connecting and collaborating with our colleagues in person. Onsite work is an essential function of this position, and you are expected to be in the office 3 days per week for meetings and team collaboration. This position may be filled at the either of the two levels, based on the strength of the candidate pool and needs of the position within our TRIM department.

Essential Functions:

• Direct, coordinate, and monitor all activities for a variety of large, highly integrated and complex programs or projects related to new products, services, web solutions or automated systems implementation with significant FRS or Bank-wide impact.
• Consult with all levels of Bank management, staff and customers on services, products and automation or systems solutions for business problem-solving, conflict resolution and lead decision-making.
• As needed, provide the translation between the technical automation or systems solution and business line processes
• Plan, coordinate, and monitor all stages of project management including initiation, planning, execution, implementation, and closure, ensuring compliance with System and industry standards, methodologies, and guidelines.
• Ensure timely delivery of necessary artifacts throughout project and/or program lifecycle.
• Develop project agreements or charters based on requirements, risk, and complexity of potential solutions, and create project plans, integrated schedules accordingly.
• Ensure all of the project's technological requirements and objectives are correctly gathered, understood and properly translated for implementation.
• Ensure agreement from project sponsor(s) and stakeholders is received for initial scope and project plans and any changes throughout the project lifecycle.
• Direct all aspects of the project or program team, with support from management to assign individual responsibilities, tasks, priorities, and technical functions.
• Identify the project's/program's key success indicators and manage the work within scope, quality, time, and cost constraints.
• Manage successful outcomes through identifying and addressing issues and risks.
• Serve as a key liaison between project/program team, vendors and Bank management, and business line users, and plays a primary role in FRS workgroups.
• Coordinate the implementation, training, and documentation of related procedures.
• Routinely prepares and delivers written and oral communications, including presentations to Senior Management.
• Provide consistent and comprehensive project/program status reports, updates, and on-going cost analyses.
• Evaluate completed projects/programs in comparison to cost/time projections.
• Serve as project, program, and/or portfolio manager for the coordinated management of multiple projects including summarizing overall status for multiple projects.
• Effectively manage and coordinate complex, cross-functional teams working toward different, but integrated goals and projects; coordination may include project management and scrum resources.
• Demonstrate strategic thought direction and leadership in addressing unique or complex situations that impact the related project(s), programs, or portfolios.
• Monitor development and best practices in the internal/external business environment, and regulatory matters.
• Anticipate potential challenges, including internal and external business challenges and regulatory issues.
• Advise and recommend appropriate realignments to programs, projects, portfolios, processes, training, resources, products, or services.
• Provide tactical and strategic options and project or portfolio recommendations as input to applicable project governance groups.
• Generate timely and appropriate communications, develop, produce and/or deliver organizational and enterprise-level presentations, views, and reports related to project/s and/or programs.
• Ensure that programs and/or projects conform to standards such as technical, quality, timeliness, and cost, as well as to relevant policy, governance, guidance, and frameworks.
• Manage and motivate Project Managers and Teams to complete valuable projects. Develop and manage project/program budget. Monitor and report on progress, performance, and status.
• Program Proposals and Executive Level dashboarding & presentation skills
• Provide work direction to less experienced Project Managers.

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kgohmann@c4techservices.com