Sr Project Manager

Together we fight for everyone’s opportunity for a better financial future.

We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone’s access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough … we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future.  We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today.

Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action.  We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.

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Get to know the Opportunity:

Primary point of accountability to business partners and other parties for project planning, day-to-day execution, management, implementation, readiness, and reporting of medium to large projects and/or small programs (typically $2M-$4M) often with varying scope, high complexity, and non-contained risk that support simple to moderately complex business unit or corporate goals. Project/program objectives address complex business goals. The projects/programs will typically span multiple IT and/or business areas. Accountable to manage and monitor project tasks and controls during portfolio planning, project planning, and delivery activities to ensure on-time and quality outcomes are met within scope and budget. Work independently and apply expert/leading project management and advanced program management knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project deliverables, processes, communications, presentations in order to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations. Understand, apply, promote, and contribute to Voya delivery methodologies, standards, and tools

What You Will Contribute:

• Accountable to business sponsor(s) and management to drive delivery of quality solutions tied to clearly understood business problem(s) and benefit(s)
• Deliver project/program objectives on-time, with quality, within scope and budget in order to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations
• Develop, manage, monitor, and report on all project, program, and/ or portfolio tasks, activities, controls, deliverables, and reports
• Promote early awareness, communication, transparency and mitigation planning of critical dependencies, risks and issues within project 
• Demonstrate proven capability to be disciplined and flexible at the same time
• Supply accurate project estimates and tightly manage project budget, approved funding, forecasts, and actuals
• Secure and maintain project resources and actively manage resource plan
• Understand, apply, promote, and contribute to Voya delivery methodologies, standards, and tools
• Look for and champion opportunities to reduce cost and improve efficiency while delivering on all commitments
• Facilitate & drive simplified solutions to complex problems to enable positive outcomes
• Naturally lead and command authority, influence and inspire without control
• Proven ability to create open environments conducive to freely share information and ideas; listen and effectively communicate with clarity and precision
• Exercise independent and fair consensus building skills when conflicts arise
• Anticipate and head off problems that can jeopardize delivery, budget, customer readiness, and customer acceptance
• Demonstrate team building skills by developing high performing project teams, setting a positive tone and leading by example
• Hold self and project team accountable for valued business outcomes
• Remove barriers to enable project team to complete objectives no matter how difficult
• Actively coach and mentor members of the PM community
• Effectively operate with limited information and ambiguity
• Effectively negotiate priorities and solutions
• Manage vendor relationships as required
• Drive lessons learned and knowledge retention for future use
• Coordinate and facilitate meetings and capture clear and actionable minutes
• Coordinate and execute consistent time entry processes and reporting for all project team members
   

Minimum Knowledge & Experience:

• 4 year college degree or equivalent work e