Operations Planning and Governance - Planning and Execution Project Manager

TITLE: PLANNING AND EXECUTION PROJECT MANAGER
STATUS: EXEMPT
REPORT TO: SRMGR - PORTFOLIO PLANNING AND EXECUTION
DEPARTMENT: OPERATIONS PLANNING AND GOVERNANCE
JOB CODE: 11946
PAY RANGE: $101,600.00 - $115,000.00 ANNUALLY

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
Under the general direction of the Sr Manager Planning and Execution, the Project Manager is responsible for overall direction, implementation, execution, control, and project management of Service Operations projects, including the research and development of new concepts, ideas and applications ensuring consistency with credit union strategy, commitments, and goals to accelerate the achievement of business value. Leads and implements innovative approaches and solutions within and across the enterprise to achieve desired business outcomes. Partners and consults with various business and technical partners to deliver iterative business value and achieve business strategy and objectives.

TASKS, DUTIES, FUNCTIONS:
1. Manages initiatives with moderate to high scope and complexity. Leads project team member and business/technical partners. Partners with leaders to deliver value and achieve business strategies and objectives.
2. Program Communication & Administration
a. Develops and presents project communication to influence key internal and external stakeholders to focus transparent rapid business value delivery.
b. Ensures program alignment, with shorter iterations/faster time to market/reducing time to market, and success through monitoring program, industry, functional or technology trends.
c. Understands customer journey to guide the delivery of business outcomes.
d. Creates appropriate communication plans for influencing multiple decision makers and secures commitment for project decisions; advises project/program teams to communicate solution vision and priorities.
e. Contributes to communities of practice and project community forums to address ongoing needs for the project professional community.
f. Leverages and understand enterprise or industry specific best practices or lessons learned that impact the organization and shares them with the project professional community at Golden 1.
3. Project Delivery
a. Sets project expectations and strategy; ensures the development of organizational change plans.
b. Contributes to solution options and supports business partner decision making to minimize the amount of project investment divergence from target outcomes.
c. Partners with project teams to identify opportunities for creating reusable artifacts.
d. Leads project/program teams to identify measurable business value to ensure metrics are gathered and business objectives are realized.
e. Leads project/program team to continually focus on business strategy, vision and prioritizes based on delivery of business value.
f. Manages through ambiguity; Manages and resolves conflict issues and risks to remove barriers within the project/program team while continuing momentum on initiatives.
g. Identifies and manages interdependencies within projects and programs.
4. Consultant
a. Challenges where appropriate to drive initiatives and program/project teams forward.
b. Consults with teams, stakeholders, and business leaders to identify and resolve emerging business needs.
c. Collaborates with business and technology partners and leaders to identify value drivers.
d. Collaborates and partners with leaders to understand trade-offs and align to program vision; assess the different types of support required to achieve goals which also achieve business value.
e. Develops business solutions and partners business and technology to align with overall strategy of the business.
f. Provides partners and leaders with an accurate view of challenges to adoption; recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.
g. Manages key partners and stakeholder expectations in accordance with changes in the business, technology, or the environment.
h. Contributes to the change activities on projects or programs across the organization.
i. Maintain a thorough understanding of state and federal laws and regulations related to credit union compliance including bank secrecy and anti-money laundering laws appropriate to the position.
5. Team Leadership
a. Motivates and inspires teams to coalesce and commit to shared purpose.
b. Drive team effort and promote team coordination.
c. Create a collaborative environment of distributed or virtual teams.
d. Provide guidance, feedback, coaching and mentoring to project team members.
6. Strategy and Analysis
a. Coordinates, supports, and ma