Sr. Manager, Project Management (PULSE)

A large national consumer bank is seeking a Senior Manager, Project Management (PULSE) to drive strategy and execute on high priority projects for the company.

Location: Plano, TX

In this role, you will work with smart and passionate people to deliver results that have a direct impact on the company's bottom line. You will take on important and exciting responsibility from day one, working with key stakeholders across the company. You will be challenged to excel and lead alongside the brightest talent in the industry and be rewarded for your achievements. In this role, you will lead end to end strategic execution across key business initiatives. You will drive PULSE portfolio prioritization, capacity planning, and strategic sequencing for product programs, ensuring all program roadmaps directly align with broader organizational goals. Serving as an essential liaison to executive leadership, you will deliver critical health status updates and unblock high visibility initiatives through targeted leader engagement. As a key connective layer, you will foster cross functional alignment and transparency across tech, vendors, and other partners regarding scope, budget, and timelines. Furthermore, you will elevate program management standards by instilling consistent methodologies and maintaining a robust risk governance framework to guarantee operational compliance and audit readiness.

General Responsibilities:

Leading moderate to large complex projects and programs by providing strategic direction to projects, peers, and direct reports. Designing, developing, and managing project plans in a complex dynamic environment, revising needs to meet changing requirements. Ensuring projects are being documented appropriately to mitigate risk and to be delivered on time. Leveraging problem solving and influencing skills to ensure project plans deliver on intent. Partnering cross functionally with project customers to provide strategic and tactical thought partnership to effectively drive project delivery. Building relationships and collaborating with key stakeholders to ensure delivery of commitments. Leading a team of project managers. Exhibit outstanding influencing skills to effectively drive project / program efforts. Demonstrate a proven track record of excellent project management, bringing the ability to quickly put structure in place to manage work in a dynamic complex environment. Display a passion for coaching and developing a team of associates through their leadership style. Have excellent communication and partnership skills which are essential for interacting and communicating with key stakeholders at all levels across the company to manage, inform and influence outcomes.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree or Military experience
At least 8 years of Project Management experience
At least 1 year of People Management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Masters or MBA degree
At least 10 years of Project Management experience
At least 3 years of People Management experience
PMP, Lean, Agile or Six Sigma certification

At this time, a large national consumer bank will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

Compensation: $161,500 – $184,300/yr