Alternative Investments Project Management Office, Vice President

Who we are looking for

This position supports State Street Institutional Services, Alternative Investment Solutions (AIS) business and reports to the AIS PMO team supporting various strategic programs and initiatives across AIS.  The position will work with the various business leads to assist with project management activities such as maintaining project plans, migration flight plans, risk logs, action item trackers, etc. to drive results and transformation.  This position will provide the candidate exposure across all AIS business lines, a strong foundation in project management, and a potential career path in program strategy and execution.  Project types may include managing conversions, technology initiatives, offshore transitions, regulatory initiatives, and any other special projects where the business may need strong project management.

What you will be responsible for

• Support AIS Project Management Office (PMO) activities through management of project artifacts as needed, including managing, tracking, and reporting on projects and program functions to drive successful execution

• Manage a small team of project managers and consultants

• Lead the end-to-end planning and management of a medium to large project and/or lead a work stream within a very large strategic initiative

• Ensure that project scope and requirements and mandates are fully scoped out and documented, including coordinating project scope control

• Assess, identify and mitigate the risk areas for each project activity and actively working on activities to manage the risk

• Prepare PMO management reports, dashboards and presentations related to the program and/or activities

• Interface and collaborate across key internal stakeholders (business, IT and project teams) and external parties to deliver results and ensure consistent service delivery, client solutions and client satisfaction

• Participate in structuring, analyzing ad executing projects across the full breadth of AIS’s geographic markets and business lines

• Facilitate working group sessions, as needed, to drive initiatives forward, including obtaining consensus and approval from all stakeholders

• Support and work with the business leads to accomplish the project plan activities, including managing risks and issues as required

• Support analysis on current and target state operating models, organizational designs, workflow and restructuring functions to determine optimal operating model strategy to drive the execution on target state models

• Provide quantitative and qualitative analysis to inform strategic and transformation planning and decisions

What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• The candidate will have strong analytical, project/time management, documentation skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and solid working knowledge of financial markets.

• The candidate will be required to work with a diverse group of individuals in all time zones including Business Sponsors, Executive Leadership, Business Users, IT stakeholders, Project Managers and Subject Matter Experts – internal and external to State Street.

• Project Management Certification preferred (PMI) but not required

• Strong knowledge of project and systems development lifecycles; experience with more than one project type preferred

• Strong communication skills both verbal and written to communicate across various levels of the organization.

• Knowledge of Geneva migrations a plus

• Ability to work under pressure and deliver on tight schedules

• Ability to balance multiple projects simultaneously

• Excellent MS Office Suite (Powerpoint, Excel and Word), SharePoint and Collaborate Community Sites

• Strong communication skills both verbal and written to communicate across various levels of the organization

• Highly motivated self-starter willing and able to learn a great deal of information in a short period of time

• Ability to work independently or as a team member on projects of varying size and scope, including client-facing initiatives

• Ability to quickly adapt to constantly changing requirements and business needs

• Ability to manage a small team of project managers and consultants

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum 5-10