Director, Enterprise Project Office

Location: New Orleans

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Hancock Whitney Plaza - Gulfport, MS:
UNO Center - New Orleans, LAtime type:
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February 14, 2026 (14 days left to apply) job requisition :
R016302

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** Job Profile Summary
** The Director of the Enterprise Project Office (EPO) leads a team of relationship managers, project managers, and business analysts responsible for governing, prioritizing, and delivering strategic initiatives across the Bank. This role ensures consistent project execution, strong business and technology partnership, disciplined prioritization, and measurable value delivery. The Director also introduces emerging best practices—such as enhanced intake processes, value‑focused prioritization, modern tooling, and continuous improvement—to mature the Bank’s delivery capability while preserving essential governance, regulatory control, and execution stability.
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Duties & Responsibilities
**** Enterprise Governance & Portfolio Management
*** Oversees the enterprise project portfolio, ensuring alignment to corporate strategy, revenue optimization, risk reduction, operational improvement, and regulatory priorities.
* Chairs Project Committee and Project Steering Committee; provides clear, consistent visibility into project status, risks, capacity constraints, and resource needs.
* Maintains and continuously improves project management methodology, introducing lightweight, modern practices such as enhanced intake, risk‑based prioritization, and benefits realization.
* Partners with business and technology leadership to ensure the portfolio is prioritized based on value, risk, regulatory need, and capacity.
** Strategic Leadership & Business Partnership
*** Develops and executes a three‑year EPO strategy aligned to corporate goals, incorporating modern delivery concepts (e.g., outcome measures, increased transparency, streamlined processes).
* Acts as a key liaison between business units and technology teams to ensure clarity of needs, alignment of priorities, and delivery of business value.
* Plays a primary leadership role in merger and acquisition integration to ensure timely, controlled conversion with minimal customer impact.
** Delivery Excellence & Continuous Improvement
*** Provides leadership across project planning, coordination, and execution, ensuring predictable delivery of scope, schedule, and budget.
* Implements modern intake and prioritization practices (e.g., problem statements, value framing, risk/urgency mapping) to strengthen decision‑making.
* Introduces incremental enhancements to delivery processes—such as improved dashboards, flow‑based metrics, or cadence reviews—without disrupting established practices.
* Supports adoption of more data‑driven reporting, including project health dashboards, resource views, and portfolio insights.
** Financial Stewardship & Reporting
*** Partners with senior leadership on capital planning for strategic initiatives; contributes to budgeting and forecasting processes.
* Ensures value delivery is monitored, documented, and communicated; introduces lightweight benefits realization where appropriate.
* Tracks and reports Playbook action items and strategic progress.
** Risk, Compliance & Operational Control
*** Ensures project practices incorporate regulatory, audit, cybersecurity, and operational risk requirements.
* Maintains governance structures that are thorough yet adaptable as the organization modernizes; ensures evidence‑ready documentation and traceability.
** People Leadership
*** Manages managers overseeing a team of 15–30 associates.
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