Senior Project Manager – Market Job Description
Welcome to Western & Southern Financial Group – Our focus on creating value for our customers through everything we do is foundational to who we are. We provide meaningful and challenging opportunities for our associates which is a key facet of our incredible culture that helps make Western & Southern a career destination.
- More than 135 years of operating history;
- Ranked 314 on Fortune 500
- Award winning Talent Development Team
- Top 10 for Top Spouse Employer and Military Friendly Employer in 2023
- We consider Cincinnati the best place to live, work and celebrate life – that is why we are committed to doing good for our community!
Western & Southern is looking for a dynamic candidate who has senior level product development project management skills with direct experience delivering strategic revenue driven business service products (preferably in the financial services/insurance space) from within our enterprise Program Management Office (PMO).The Project Management role will be responsible for establishing strong business line management relationships in support of building and delivering large scale project plans to launch product solutions to the market. The role will require administering project planning activities including coordination of enterprise stakeholders across cross-functional IT areas and downstream business operational/support teams as well as strategic vendor partners.
Are you self-driven and collaborative influencer that enjoys motivating people to act without direct authority? Do you build and maintain strong working relationships with multiple stakeholders? Do you enjoy being part of a team as well as a contributing individually? This may be the role for you.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- on visions, goals, priorities and values across the enterprise, IT, and the PMO
- and maintain strong relationships to drive results and deliver services as needed
- track, and develop meaningful measures and metric in support of portfolios, programs, and projects
- business analysis and project management expertise to define and enhance best practices
- results while holding self and others accountable for high-quality delivery and rapid execution across the enterprise
Requirements:
- At least 10 years of experience assisting with the execution of program and project management based work.
- Demonstrated ability to define, track, and report on metrics used to identify project success outcomes and financial budget management.
- Demonstrated use of strong listening, communication and presentation techniques. Verbal and written communications are to conform to proper rules of punctuation, grammar, diction and style.
- Demonstrated experience leading and completing assigned tasks accurately and in a timely manner.
- Demonstrated experience leading projects with hybrid development methodologies (i.e. agile and waterfall)
- Proven analytical/problem-solving/critical-thinking skills.
- Demonstrated adaptability when required to adjust to multiple demands/deadlines, shifting priorities, ambiguity and rapid change.
- Excellent attention to detail
- Strong relationship building skills
