Enterprise Project Manager

Do you have Project Management experience in Asset Management and/or Financial Services? Our client is seeking an Enterprise Project Manager to plan and execute investment product launches and other product events within its Product Implementation Program. Based in the Executive Office, the role partners with Investments, Operations, Product, Distribution, Finance, Legal and Compliance, Marketing, Information Technology, and external service providers translate business requirements into coordinated deliverables.

The Enterprise Project Manager drives work from initiation through implementation readiness, operational handoff, and closeout to advance our client’s product offerings and strategic objectives.

This is a Hybrid role - in office Tues/Wed/Thurs.

The Enterprise Project Manager manages multiple concurrent initiatives and improves our client’s product implementation playbooks, reporting, and operating processes by applying lessons from completed implementations.

The portfolio includes exchange-traded fund (ETF) launches, conversions, and liquidations; mutual fund launches, mergers, and liquidations; collective investment trust (CIT) launches and share class changes; manager changes; and new client business lines or product capabilities.

• Lead product initiatives through the full project lifecycle, from intake and planning through implementation and closeout.
• Facilitate project intake, scope definition, estimation, and validation. Develop plans that establish deliverables, milestones, owners, dependencies, communications, resource needs, schedules, and applicable budgets.
• Lead cross-functional teams and external service providers through execution. Translate business and technical requirements into coordinated deliverables, and support testing and implementation readiness when required.
• Manage scope, schedules, resources, risks, issues, decisions, and change requests; assess impacts and elevate matters requiring sponsor or leadership attention.
• Report project status concisely to sponsors, the Senior Program Manager, and key stakeholders. Maintain accurate schedules, dashboards, updates, and project records in Smarsheet or other designated tools.
• Refine workflows, standardize repeatable practices, and capture lessons learned. Update implementation playbooks to reflect realistic effort estimates, sequencing, and scheduling assumptions.
• Coordinate implementation handoff to business operations, confirm closeout activities, and document post-implementation findings and improvement opportunities.

• Five to seven years of relevant project management experience, including responsibility for multiple concurrent projects with cross-functional dependencies and constraints.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or progress toward certification.
• Practical experience managing the project lifecycle, including project and resource planning, issues, risks, change control, communications, status reporting, and closeout; ability to translate business objectives and requirements into actionable plans, deliverables, and technical work streams.
• Ability to organize complex work, maintain attention to detail, prioritize competing demands in a fast-moving and unpredictable environment, and deliver projects within approved scope, schedule, and budget parameters.
• Ability to communicate project status, risks, and decisions clearly in writing and verbally with executives, sponsors, business partners, technical teams, and external service providers; listen actively, respect diverse perspectives, and adapt communication to the audience and circumstances.
• Experience collaborating across a distributed or matrixed workforce, with facilitation and stakeholder management…