Description

Brief Description:

The Project Manager - Senior for the Digital team is viewed as a leader within their team and provides project management and delivery of technology and business initiatives while actively ensuring consistency with company strategy and goals.

Detailed Description:

The individual in this role will be a leader in the utilization of Huntington’s Project Management Methodology and in the creation of full-scale project plans for the execution of project goals and strategies.

To be successful the candidate must be driven and well-organized. It is essential for the individual to be self-motivated and tenacious, thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, and drive the project team to complete tasks on agreed schedules. Management will look to this individual to drive the overall coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of the projects assigned to them. This individual is expected to help lead relationships with the business, cross-impacted IT teams, and 3rd Party Vendors and must possess the ability to push back when required.

Primary Responsibilities:

• • Responsible for working with the project team to drive the overall coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of assigned project efforts
  • Consistently work effectively and successfully with the core project leadership roles to ensure project success
  • Actively facilitate and participate in the analysis and review of overarching project deliverables
  • Create and maintain the full spectrum of project documentation as defined by Huntington’s Project Management Methodology
  • Lead and ensure delivery of complex midsize to large projects
  • Lead and coordinate project delivery and status with other bank departments/affiliates and 3rd Party Vendors
  • Manage multiple projects within approved budget and schedule
  • Consistently create and submit accurate status reports on time
  • Lead the management of project change, risk and issue management
  • Ensure all risks and issues are documented and escalated appropriately
  • Consistently create and maintain full-scale project plans and schedules
  • Consistently update/maintain project information in the project management tool (Service Now PPM)
  • Schedule and facilitate project meetings
  • Facilitate and work with project team members to meet established target dates and completion of activities/deliverables under changing conditions
  • Actively and effectively communicate with project and leadership team members
  • Ensure all aspects of the project’s documentation is created, reviewed, and approved by the required individuals
  • Collaborate with the project team on the project’s scope and commit estimates
  • Actively facilitate and participate in release activities for the project
  • Ensure activities are completed in support of the project’s warranty period
  • Understand and follow the project lifecycle methodology consistently
  • Work under moderate supervision with some latitude for independent judgment and problem solving
  • Provide mentorship to junior team members as needed
  • May serve as a Program Manager on programs as needed

Job Requirements:

Minimum Requirements:

• • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • 5 to 8 years of experience as a Project / Product / Program Manager (or equivalent role type)

Preferred Requirements:

• • Experience in Banking or Financial Services
  • Experience leading large, cross-functional information technology efforts
  • Strong experience utilizing a variety of portfolio project management tools
  • Strong experience creating and tracking project schedules in MS Project or other project management tools
  • A good