Senior PMO Portfolio Manager
Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Phoenix
Posted on: April 20, 2024
Job Description:
Job Title:Senior PMO Portfolio ManagerLocation:CityScapeWhat
you'll do:Responsible for managing and supporting large, complex,
cross-functional, enterprise-wide Digital Initiatives including our
Consumer Digital Banking strategy. This leadership role oversees
prioritized projects within the Digital portfolio and will
coordinate with functional departments in a consultative manner to
support Planning and Execution activities. Within the defined
portfolio, this leader coordinates the efforts of team resources,
third-party contractors and/or consultants and accountable for the
delivery of on time, within-budget business critical projects. This
leader also provides coaching, mentoring and oversight leadership
for all direct / in direct project managers supporting the Digital
portfolio. This leader is accountable for full compliance with
project management standards; and coordinates risk and change
communications across stakeholders and project owners.The EPMO
applies project management knowledge and skills with the full
support of Executive / Business sponsors. This leader has
responsibility for the overall leadership, coordination and
management for implementation and sustainment of the EPMO processes
and procedures.What we are looking for:
- Individually support the Consumer Digital Banking initiatives
as the Program Management lead.
- Define and execute the project management process,
deliverables, and operational cadence in strict accordance with
project management standards and best practices.
- Ensures customer satisfaction by ensuring accountability of
roles and responsibilities across and within projects, particularly
by project sponsors and project managers, driving project execution
excellence (including clear communication plans using standard
reports, meetings, and tools), reviewing customer feedback, and
participation in customer meetings where necessary.
- Delivers executive level communication of project status and
key project attributes covering all projects in the portfolio.
- Keep leadership informed of changes related to new and ongoing
projects within the portfolio; resolve and/or escalate project
issues in a timely fashion.
- Manage and balance project manager workload; ensure team
members understand and accept their roles, responsibilities and
accountabilities; ensure consistency of project execution to
standards and achievement of project objectives.
- Develops project management capabilities of project team
members through goal-setting, defining crystal clear expectations,
training, coaching, group and individual meetings and
discussion.
- Recruits and leads the resources within the portfolio, applying
the principles necessary for the successful management of projects
throughout the project life cycle across all projects; sets and
controls standards and mentors project managers to improve delivery
of projects on time and within budget, given scope and known
risks.
- Responsible for identifying and adjusting key resources and
providing the direction required for meeting project
objectives.
- Track progress on all ongoing projects (issues, risks,
schedule, changes, costs, and scope) within the portfolio; provide
updates to business stakeholders as required. Manage project
schedules and task details; utilize project management tools and
reports appropriately.
- Coordinate all change control processes including Go to Green
Action plans across the portfolio of projects.
- Apply organizational change management principles (people side
of change) and ensure continuous training and education in this
discipline.What you will need:
- 15+ years of progressive leadership and execution of a
portfolio of large-scale Program / Projects, preferably in Banking
or Financial Services.
- Managing multiple levels of cross-functional projects
simultaneously with proven track record of delivery.
- Must have expertise and passion working with internal customers
to understand their business needs, scenarios, and drivers.
- Experience building and leading high performing teams with
demonstrated large project/program deployment and implementation
experience.
- Extensive experience building successful internal and external
partnerships and effective working relationships.
- Self-starting senior level professional with a track record of
successfully anticipating issues and risks.
- Excellent communications and presentation skills, both verbal
and written.
- Sound working knowledge and experience applying process
improvement techniques and tools on large scale programs /
projects.
- Subject Matter experience in Technology Project Management,
including both Waterfall / Agile a plus.
- Subject Matter experience in Treasury Management / Payments a
plus.
- 4 year university degree, MBA in a related field
preferred.
- Professional certifications preferred - Project Management,
Change Management, Process Excellence.Benefits you'll love:We offer
all the important things you'd want - like competitive salaries, an
ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time
off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an
employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition,
you'll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge,
learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and
manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to
help grow your career!About the company:Western Alliance Bank is a
wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation.
Alliance Bank of Arizona, Alliance Association Bank, Bank of
Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank, and Torrey Pines Bank
are divisions of Western Alliance Bank; Member FDIC. AmeriHome
Mortgage is a Western Alliance Bank company.Western Alliance
Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider
all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color,
religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected
veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic
information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to
working with and providing reasonable accommodations for
individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a
disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any
part of the application process and/or need an alternative method
of applying, please email HR@westernalliancebank.com or call
602-386-2488. When contacting us, please provide your contact
information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We
will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a
reasonable accommodation in the application process. - Western
Alliance Bancorporation
Keywords: Disability Solutions, Sun City West , Senior PMO Portfolio Manager, Accounting, Auditing , Phoenix, Arizona
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