Location: Lake Elmo, MN
Work arrangement: On-site
Work type: Full-time
Compensation: $60,000 – $121,300/yr
Location: Lake Elmo, MN
The Sr. PM serves as a strategic partner to business and technology leaders, ensuring that complex projects deliver measurable value while maintaining rigorous governance standards. In this role, you'll lead initiatives that shape the future of the organization by operating at the intersection of strategy and execution, translating enterprise priorities into well-governed, outcome-driven project delivery.
**Key Accountabilities**
**Project Planning and Execution**
Lead complex, enterprise level projects end to end, applying the appropriate delivery methodology (waterfall, hybrid, or agile) based on project characteristics and team needs. Ensure project objectives are tightly aligned with enterprise strategy, line of business priorities, and EPMO governance standards. Develop comprehensive project design plans, roadmaps, and integration plans; manage dependencies, critical path, and cross-project dependencies. Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks and issues; manage vendor relationships including contract governance and performance oversight. Drive data-informed decisions using KPIs, health metrics, and dashboards to monitor and course correct project performance.
**Leadership and Communication**
Translate complex project status into clear, executive-ready business impact narratives for sponsors, steering committees, and senior leadership. Build and maintain trusted relationships with stakeholders across business units, technology, operations, and third-party partners. Build high-performing project teams; coach, mentor, and motivate team members to take ownership and deliver with excellence. Lead organizational change management efforts to ensure successful adoption of project outcomes.
**Governance and Continuous Improvement**
Support enterprise portfolio governance through consistent adherence to EPMO standards, reporting cadences, and quality control. Conduct post-implementation retrospectives and document lessons learned, successful patterns, and improvement opportunities. Contribute to the evolution of EPMO best practices, frameworks, and delivery standards; identify opportunities to enhance organizational project management maturity.
**Key Competencies for Position**
**Develops Talent** – You Own You. You own your development and career. Actively assesses self by leveraging feedback to enhance knowledge, skills and behavior. Leverages own strengths and those of team members to meet individual and team goals supporting both internal and external client needs. Continuously develops self for current and future roles.
**Promotes Change** – Actively seeks information to understand the rationale, implications, and impact for changes. Remains agile by quickly modifying daily behavior, leveraging resources, and trying new approaches to effectively embrace change. Willing to act quickly, learn and adjust as needed. Identifies and recommends changes to leadership to improve performance. Aligns activities to meet individual, team and organizational goals.
**Strategy in Action** – Breaks down larger goals into smaller achievable goals and communicates how they are contributing to the broader goal. Actively seeks to understand factors and trends that may influence role. Anticipates risks and develops contingency plans to manage risks. Identifies opportunities for improvement and seeks insights from other sources to generate potential solutions. Aligns activities to meet individual, team and organizational goals.
**Compelling Communication** – Effectively and transparently shares information and ideas with others. Tailors the delivery of communication in a way that engages the audience and that is easy to understand and retain. Unites others towards common goal. Asks for others' opinions and ideas and listens actively to gain their support when clarifying expectations, agreeing on a solution and checking for satisfaction.
**Makes Decisions & Solves Problems** – Takes ownership of the problem while collaborating with others on a resolution with an appropriate level of urgency. Collaborates and seeks to understand the root causes of problems. Evaluates the implications of new information or events and recommends solutions using decisions that are sound based on what is known at the time. Takes action that is consistent with available facts, constraints and probable consequences.
**Delights Clients** – Passionately serves internal/external clients with excellence. Maintains a growth mindset staying current with developments and trends in areas of expertise influencing client satisfaction both internally and externally. Understands data, metrics and/or financial information, and how they tie to client satisfaction and business outcomes related to position, client and/or team. Nurtures client relationships by listening, prioritizing, and acting responsibly to meet client needs, mitigate risk and add shareholder value.
**Leads Inclusively** – Seeks diverse relationships to learn more about people from other cultures and backgrounds. Gathers information with curiosity and humility to learn more about people from other cultures and backgrounds including impacts on norms, behaviors and expectations (e.g., social norms, decision-making approaches, and preferences). Advocates for diverse perspectives. Continually examines own biases and behaviors to avoid stereotypical responses.
**Qualifications and Education Requirements**
7+ years of progressive project management experience in financial services, technology, or other highly regulated industries. Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, finance, or related field. PMP or similar certification (if not currently held, must obtain within 6 months of hire). Experience with modern PM/PPM tools (e.g., JIRA, Microsoft Project/Planner, ServiceNow). Strong executive communication skills and ability to distill complexity into clear, actionable narratives. Proficiency with Microsoft productivity tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Copilot, etc.). Ability to manage multiple tasks and with shifting priorities. Possess proactive problem-solving skills with the awareness of using tools to maximize productivity.
Compensation: $60,000 – $121,300/yr