Job description
***Hybrid Schedule of Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday onsite weekly
The goal of the Project Manager is to facilitate projects across a growing 50+ person, multi-function investment team. Projects include client support including complex analysis and related external meetings, thought leadership and marketing work, and investment product development and oversight. This role is highly cross-functional and will require a strategic thinker comfortable with ensuring cross-departmental alignment, building tools, processes, and capacity to aid in achieving the department’s goals.
Details:
· Drive effective teamwork, prioritization, communication, collaboration, and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities while maintaining strong business relationships.
· Lead the effective and efficient delivery of large complex cross-functional projects and manage implementation activities for concurrent workstreams.
· Ability to create and communicate project metrics, schedule, and status to the entire department, and cross-departments.
· Anticipate bottlenecks, identify risk, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
· Demonstrated ability to read and interpret technical information, compose clear and concise written communication, and create appropriate business requirements and acceptance criteria.
· Ensure consistency with and application of department standards, processes, and controls across projects.
· Power user of the team’s technology stack who partners with our Platform Solutions team on suggested enhancements to workflows.
· Design, build, and maintain reports and dashboards to help plan, manage, and complete work in a timely manner, as well as deliver business intelligence.
Qualifications:
· Bachelor’s degree required or equivalent work experience.
· 3+ years of Project/Program Management experience required, with proven ability to manage multiple related and concurrent workstreams with high attention to detail.
· Ability of proven delivery background with experience across the systems development life cycle with experience in all program/project phases – plan, initiate, elaborate, design, build, test and implement.
· Excellent organizational, listening, presentation, written and verbal communication skills.
· Strong analytical skills, ability to multitask and handle interruptions.
· Must take initiative, have a passion for driving efficiency, and have a demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
· Proven ability as liaison between technical teams and business visionaries – not a “go between” but rather facilitator and someone who can capture the vision from both points of view into a cohesive implementation plan.
· Resourceful, with a can-do attitude toward projects and willingness to apply creative problem solving.
· Prior experience using workflow management technology, preferably Workfront; and demonstrated ability and willingness to learn and use new technology.
· PMP or Project Management certification is a plus.
Financial Services background is a plus
Job Type: Contract
Pay: $65.00 per hour
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Seattle, WA: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Experience:
- Project management: 4 years (Preferred)
- Financial services: 1 year (Required)
- Agile: 1 year (Required)
- Waterfall: 1 year (Required)
License/Certification:
- PMP (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
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