Senior Enterprise Project Manager

Job Summary

Under minimal direction, the Enterprise Project Manager is responsible for leading complex, cross functional initiatives that drive strategic business objectives.   Reporting to the Enterprise Project Management Office(ePMO), the role is responsible for aligning multiple projects with enterprise objectives ensuring successful delivery and enabling measurable business outcomes.  The Senior Enterprise Project Manager has demonstrated advanced skills managing the entire project lifecycle from initiation through project closure, including driving continuous improvement into the process. This position requires interpersonal skills, a customer focus, and the ability to establish and maintain strong and effective working relationships with peers, stakeholders, and vendors.

 

About UFCU

Our Credit Union was founded in 1936 and has grown to serve members throughout Texas and beyond. At UFCU, we are more than just a financial institution, and our people are more than just employees. We are dedicated to our purpose of empowering our Members to achieve financial success and build brighter futures.

In pursuit of our aspiration that UFCU is loved by millions of Members and built to thrive for generations, we are guided by our values:

Purposefully Member-Obsessed

We are driven by a profound sense of empathy to deeply understand our Members’ needs and preferences, what brighter futures means to them, and the obstacles in their way. We act in our Members’ best interests, forever seeking to empower their financial success.

Possibilities Reimagined

We are inspired to courageously experiment, learn, and iterate in pursuit of positive impact for our Members, UFCU, and coworkers. We challenge assumptions, embrace diverse perspectives, and make use of data and insights.

Performance Excellence Rooted in Unwavering Integrity

We do the right thing, always. We champion teamwork, accountability, continuous improvement, and celebrate successful outcomes of others, fostering an inclusive environment of excellence and collaboration.

Essential Functions

Program and Project Management Planning and Execution:

• Advanced understanding of the Project management discipline, including all phases of a project lifecycle.
• Plans, tracks and evaluates projects performance over a project lifecycle by utilizing:
  • Business cases
  • Project charters
  • Communication plans
  • Project plans
  • Resource Plans
  • Requirements and/or specification documents
  • Status updates
  • RACI’s
  • Deployment plans
• Aligns stakeholders across business units, technology teams and executive leadership.
• Strong Leadership skills to motivate, direct, and encourage program team execution to achieve milestones and reach project
• Manage interdependence across multiple projects and workstreams.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks and issues appropriately.
• Drive and influence decision making through data, reporting and executive-level communications.
• Champions adoption of program management best practices, tools, and methodologies.
• Mentors/coaches junior project managers, providing personal growth, and improved execution of deliverables.

 

Program Management Strategy

• Works with business units, executive team and other stakeholders to develop program roadmaps.
• Communicates resource needs for executing roadmap including labor, and external expenses.
• Aligns with business unit on program objectives, success metrics and governance structures. Clearly is able to articulate how program objectives align to enterprise objectives including financial targets, KPI’s and other strategic goals.

 

Program and Project Communication:

• Manage relationships effectively across business units, technical teams, vendors and executive leadership.
• Provides regular, clear, respectful communication of project status to all stakeholders, internal and Provides online access and distributes information as appropriate.
• Serves as a central contact point for vendors and
• Plans and manages project meetings professionally and Creates agenda and meeting minutes for distribution.

 

Scope and Change Control:

• Clearly documents project scope and deliverables at the initiation of project.
• Proactively identifies material changes to scope, timeline or budget.
• Coordinates change requests with the project team, articulating impact of the change to project objec