Senior Project Manager-PMO

About Our Company

We’re a diversified financial services leader with more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management, administration and advisement as of year-end 2024. Our team of 22,000 people across 19 countries, serves more than 3.5 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses – Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and River Source Insurance and Annuities.

Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.

Ameriprise Financial is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead the execution of large-scale, highly complex Human Resources initiatives. This role partners closely with executive sponsors, HR leaders, Centers of Excellence, HR Operations, Technology teams, vendors, and other cross‑functional stakeholders to deliver strategic programs from planning through implementation, stabilization, and benefit realization. Successful candidates will have a proven track record leading enterprise‑scale HR initiatives and system implementations, managing multiple work streams and interdependencies, navigating ambiguity, and influencing senior leaders across the organization.

The Senior Project Manager serves as a trusted advisor to sponsors and project teams while bringing strong project management discipline, governance, risk management, and organizational change expertise. This is a highly execution‑oriented role requiring a hands‑on, self‑directed project leader who operates with minimal oversight and intervention. The successful candidate proactively translates strategy into integrated delivery plans, anticipates and removes roadblocks, drives timely decisions, and holds stakeholders accountable for commitments.

The ideal candidate combines advanced project and program management capabilities with an understanding of HR processes, technology, and operating models, enabling successful delivery across Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Compensation, Benefits, Learning, Employee Experience, HR Operations, and HR Technology.

• Lead the end-to-end execution of large-scale, highly complex HR projects and programs, including planning, stakeholder alignment, implementation, testing, deployment, stabilization, and post‑implementation support.
• Partner with executive sponsors and senior leaders to define project objectives, scope, success measures, governance, strategic priorities, and delivery plans.
• Drive execution across multiple work streams, ensuring deliverables are completed on time, interdependencies are actively managed, and risks and issues are proactively addressed.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, timelines, milestones, critical‑path activities, resource strategies, financial forecasts, and executive status reporting using established methodologies and tools.
• Lead governance forums, project meetings, working sessions, and decision‑making processes while holding stakeholders accountable for commitments, action items, and timely escalation.
• Influence and align stakeholders across HR, business, technology, operations, vendors, and external partners to resolve complex business and delivery challenges.
• Lead enterprise HR initiatives such as HR technology implementations, operating model changes, organizational effectiveness programs, process improvements, regulatory projects, digital transformation, and AI‑enabled solutions.
• Manage project communications with sponsors and stakeholders, providing clear…